Pradeeban Peter-Paul (born May 17, 1977) is a Tamil Canadian

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player. Born in

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, Pradeeban Peter-Paul emigrated with his family to

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at the age of 11. It was in

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that Peter-Paul learned table tennis. When he left Germany in 1993 he was on the

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n provincial team and had won a junior doubles title. He started playing by the age of 14 At the age of 16 Peter-Paul moved to Canada. Peter-Paul represented Canada for the first time at the English Open in 1996 and has been with the national team for the past 12 years. Peter-Paul can fluently speak

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, and English. He qualified to play table tennis in the 2008 Olympics for Canada. Peter-Paul had a men's ITTF world ranking of 266th on 26 September 2011 with 1599 points.

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1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Colombo Sportspeople from Ottawa Canadian male table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2007 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Table tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games Olympic table tennis players for Canada Canadian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent Pan American Games bronze medalists in table tennis Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games {{Canada-tabletennis-bio-stub