Șerban Andrei Doboși (born October 25, 1951,

Cluj Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

) is a former Romanian International

table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

player.

Table tennis career

Playing for CSM Cluj, where he was coached by Farkas Paneth, he participated in five

World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men ...

. After he retired from active play in 1982, he was named head coach of the Romanian men's national table tennis team.

Personal life

A graduate of the Cluj Sports Academy, he is, as of 2014, a

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at the

Babeș-Bolyai University The Babeș-Bolyai University ( , , commonly known as UBB) is a public research university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Established in 1581 as Academia Claudiopolitana, it underwent several reorganizations over the centuries, eventually taking ...

, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, and holds leading posts at the Romanian Table Tennis Federation.

Achievements

*3 national youth titles (individual) *5 national titles (individual) *9 national titles (double; including youth) *13 national team titles *6

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titles

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1951 births Romanian male table tennis players Sportspeople from Cluj-Napoca Living people 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

Personal life

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Achievements

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