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Félix Lebrun
Félix Lebrun (; born 12 September 2006) is a French table tennis player and 2025 French national champion. He was a gold medalist at the 2023 European Games and reached the top ten list of the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) world ranking for the first time in October 2023. he was ranked number 4 in the world in the ITTF world rankings, making him the top-ranked French and European player. Stylistically, he plays with a penholder grip (with a reverse penhold backhand), which is a rarity among top players today. He won two bronze medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, one in individual and one in team, thus becoming at 17 years the youngest ever medalist in those events, and also the youngest male medalist in Olympic table tennis. In October 2024, he became the first French player to win a WTT Champions tournament in Montpellier. By the end of 2024, he also became world's top ranked doubles player along with his elder brother Alexis Lebrun. In March 2025, he became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 European Table Tennis Championships
The 2022 European Table Tennis Championships were held in Munich, Germany, from 13 to 21 August 2022, as part of the 2022 European Championships. Medalists Medal table Participating nations 225 players from 39 nations. References External links European Table Tennis Union Results book {{European championships in 2022 2022 European Table Tennis Championships, European Table Tennis Championships, 2022 2022 in table tennis, European Championships 2022 in European sport, Table Tennis 2022 in German sport, European Table Tennis Championships International sports competitions hosted by Germany Sports competitions in Munich August 2022 sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 European Table Tennis Championships ...
The 2024 European Table Tennis Championships was a table tennis tournament that was held in Linz, Austria, from 15 to 20 October 2024. Medalists Medal table References {{European championships in 2024 2024 European Table Tennis Championships European Table Tennis Championships Sports competitions in Linz International sports competitions hosted by Austria European Table Tennis Championships European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Équipe
''L'Équipe'' (, French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, ''L'Auto'', was founded by wealthy conservative industrialists to undermine '' Le Vélo'', which they found too progressive. It was a general sports paper that also covered the auto racing which was gaining popularity at the turn of the twentieth century. ''L'Auto'' launched the Tour de France road cycling stage race in 1903 as a circulation booster. The race leader's yellow jersey () was instituted in 1919, reflecting the distinctive yellow newsprint on which ''L'Auto'' was published. The European Champion Clubs' Cup, the competition that would later be rebranded as the UEFA Champions League, was also the brainchild of a ''L'Équipe'' journalist, Gabriel Hanot. The participating clubs in the first season were selected by ''L'Équipe' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Freitas
Marcos André Sousa da Silva Freitas (born 8 April 1988) is a Portuguese table tennis player who won European Championships medals in singles, doubles, and team events. He represented Portugal four times at the Summer Olympics. Career Freitas participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he got knocked out in the round of 64. In the same year he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles at the European Championship with Tiago Apolónia. Three years later at the 2011 European Championships, he went on to win the gold medal with his doubles partner Andrej Gaćina. He took part on his second Olympics in 2012, reaching the round of 32 in the men's singles and the quarterfinals in the team event with Tiago Apolónia and João Monteiro. In 2014, Freitas won the Europe Cup title by defeating Michael Maze in the final. He continued to win another title at the ITTF World Tour Czech Open in a seven-game final against Patrick Baum. He also helped the Portuguese men's tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2023 European Games
Table tennis at the 2023 European Games in Kraków took place from 23 June to 1 July 2023 at Hutnik Arena. The winners of the mixed doubles event qualified for the Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Olympic Games. Qualification Maximum quota per NOC: 2 athletes in each singles event, 1 team (4 athletes) in each team event and 1 pair in the mixed doubles. Medal summary Medals were awarded to 29 athletes from 7 nations. Medal table Medalists References External linksEuropean Table Tennis Union {{Events at the 2023 European Games Table tennis at the 2023 European Games, Sports at the 2023 European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Zhang
Lily Ann Zhang (born June 16, 1996) is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with teammates Ariel Hsing and Erica Wu. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio with teammates Jiaqi Zheng and Jennifer Wu. She is a six-time US national champion in women's singles. Zhang has won the US national championship in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022. In 2011, she was a bronze medalist in women's singles and women's team at the Pan American Games and won the women's doubles title at the Qatar Peace and Sport Cup. She is currently a member of the United States National Women's team. She has been ranked as high as #2 in the cadet (U-15) world ranking and #5 in the junior (U-18) world ranking. Early and personal life Lily Zhang was born on June 16, 1996, in Redwood City, California, to Chinese parents. Her family lived on the campus of Stanford University, where her father was then a mathematics professor. Lily enjoyed playing ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation, with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''The New York Times''. The newspaper is one of the United States' newspapers of record. The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889. The editorial page of the ''Journal'' is typically center-right in its positions. The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes. History Founding and 19th century A predecessor to ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istres
Istres (; Occitan: Istre) is a commune in southern France, some 60 km (38 mi) northwest of Marseille. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture. Location Istres is adjacent to the '' Étang de Berre'' lagoon (the largest in Europe) and the ''Étang de l'Olivier'' lagoon. It is located some 60 km (38 mi) north-west of Marseille, 20 km (13 mi) south-west of Salon-de-Provence, 10 km (6 mi) north of Martigues and 45 km (28 mi) south-east of Arles. Istres is also adjacent to the ''plaine de la Crau'' and the Camargue national park. Sports The city has numerous sports facilities and exactly 102 clubs. Each year, a race is organized around the Étang de l'Olivier. Many runners participate. The town's main football club is FC Istres. Facilities Istres is the home of the Istres-Le Tubé Air Base (BA 125). This air base was one of three utilized by NASA as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Legoût
Christophe Legoût (born 6 August 1973 in Montbéliard, Doubs) is a French table tennis player. He is also left-handed, and uses the classic grip and Butterfly Legout blade. Table tennis career Since he became a member of the national team in 1991, Legout is considered one of France's most prominent and popular table tennis players in its sporting history. He is a multiple-time French champion in both the singles and doubles tournaments, and has won a total of ten medals (three golds and seven silver) in the same discipline at the ITTF World Tour series. Legout is previously a member of the table tennis team at the Levallois Sporting Club in Paris, before he moved to Provence to train for Istres Ouest Provence, under his personal coaches Jean Claude and Stéphane Lebrun. Legout made his official debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he competed only in the men's doubles tournament. Legout and his partner Patrick Chila placed second in the preliminary pool round aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Table Tennis (ITTF)
World Table Tennis, stylized as WTT, is an organization created by the International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF in 2019 that runs commercialized table tennis tournaments. Its inaugural tournament was held in November 2020 in Macao. It is distinguished from the predecessor ITTF World Tour by various rules changes and big prize money for commercialized purposes. The head of its council is Liu Guoliang, a former Olympic gold medalist and former head coach of China. Background In 1926, the ITTF was founded by William Henry Lawes of Wymondham, England. The nine founding members were Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Weimar Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden and Wales. The first international tournament was held in January 1926 in Berlin, and the first World Table Tennis Championships was held in December 1926 in London. It was the only event for over 50 years that was run and managed commercially by the ITTF. In 1980, the Table Tennis World Cup, ITTF World Cups wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The table tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. A total of 175 table tennis players, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions. After a successful tournament during the 2020 Summer Olympics, the mixed doubles event remained in the table tennis program for the second time at the Olympics. Chinese players swept all of the available events, winning five gold medals. The 2024 Summer Olympics marked a historic milestone for table tennis, drawing over 230,000 spectators across 15 days of competition at the South Paris Arena 4. 6,500 fans per session attended Olympic table tennis. Qualification 172 table tennis quota places, with an equal split between men and women, were available for Paris 2024; NOCs could enter a maximum of six table tennis players acros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the List of newspapers in the United States, largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation, with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''The New York Times''. The newspaper is one of the United States' Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889. The Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal, editorial page of the ''Journal'' is typically center-right in its positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
