Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia (born 28 July 1986) is a Portuguese

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen and Portugal. As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eighteenth player in the world.

Career

Born in Lisbon, Apolónia began playing table tennis aged six at his hometown club Estrela da Amadora. As a youth player, he was crowned European Junior Doubles champion in 2004 and won a silver medal in the Doubles competition at the Junior World Championships in 2003, both partnering Marcos Freitas. After playing for German clubs TTC indeland Jülich,

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and TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen, he arrived at his current club TTC Neu-Ulm in 2019. In 2006, he won his first

ITTF Pro Tour The ITTF World Tour, known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, is an annual series of table tennis tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 1996. The tour includes events in seven categories: Men's and Women's Single ...

Doubles title in São Paulo, partnering João Monteiro. His first

Singles title followed in October 2010 with the Austrian Open in Wels, where he beat Germany's

Timo Boll Timo Boll (, ; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. He is ranked second in the German Table Tennis National League, and fifteen in the ITTF world rankings as of October 20 ...

in the final. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, where he competed in the Men's Singles. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the Portuguese men's team. In 2015 he won first place with his national team ( João Geraldo and Marcos Freitas) in

at the 2015 European Games in Baku.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Apolonia, Tiago 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Lisbon Portuguese male table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic table tennis players of Portugal European Games gold medalists for Portugal European Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games S.L. Benfica (table tennis) World Table Tennis Championships medalists Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Portugal Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Portuguese people