Zoltán Berczik |
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BERCZIK Zoltan |
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Zoltán Berczik (7 August 1937 – 11 January 2011) was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis European Championships.[1]
Berczik was born in Novi Sad. He began his career as a defensive player. With the advent of topspin in the late 1950s he turned his game around to attack.[2] He died in Budapest.[3][4]
National success
He won the Hungarian championship in single continuously from 1959 to 1964. He won the double competition in 1959 with László Földy, in 1960 and 1961 with Ferenc Sido, in 1962 Miklós Péterfy, in 1963 with János Faházi and 1967 with István Jony. In mixed doubles he won in 1960 with Gizella Farkas and Éva Kóczián in 1967.
He won the team championships in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1964 with the club Vasútépítő Törekvés and in 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1969 with Bp. Vasutas SC.
World Championships
Berczik took part in World Cups five times: in 1957 he secured the silver medal with the Hungarian team. This happened again at the World Cup in 1959, where he also won the bronze medal in doubles (with László Földy) and mixed (with Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas). At the World Cup in 1961, he was third with the team and runner-up in doubles with Ferenc Sido. In 1963 and 1965 he won no medals.
European Championships
At the Youth European Championship in 1955 in Stuttgart, he arrived in final in doubles, where he lost.
He achieved his greatest success at the European Championships in 1958 and 1960. Here he became European champion both in single and with the Hungarian team. In 1958 he won the Mixed with Gizella Lantos, in 1960 the double competition with Ferenc Sido. In 1964 he reached the final of the individual, which he lost to Kjell Johansson, and semi-finals in doubles.
Trainer and author
From 1969 he served as coach for the Hungarian national team.[5] After a stay in Japan in 1985, he coached Budapest Vasutas SC.[6] In the 1990s he wrote a series of articles for coaches on the table tennis tactics:
- 1992: Tactics (2): establishment of tactics for a match
- 1992: Tactics (3): The tactics of the offensive player
- 1993: Tactics (5): Exercises for offensive players
- 1993: Tactics (6): Exercises for offensive players
- 1994: Tactics (7)
- 1994: Tactics (8)
Berczik ended his coaching career in 1996.[7]
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- 1958: Zoltán Berczik, Zoltán Bubonyi, László Földy, Elemér Gyetvai, Ferenc Sidó (HUN)
- 1960: Zoltán Berczik, Zoltán Bubonyi, László Földy, Tamas Halpert-Hollo, Ferenc Sidó (HUN)
- 1962: Zeljko Hrbud, Istvan Korpa, Vojislav Marković, Janez Teran, Edvard Vecko (YUG)
- 1964: Hans Alsér, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Christer Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Lennart Oden (SWE)
- 1966: Hans Alsér, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Christer Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Jorgen Rosberg (SWE)
- 1968: Hans Alsér, Stellan Bengtsson, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Kjell Johansson, Bo Persson (SWE)
- 1970: Hans Alsér, Stellan Bengtsson, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Kjell Johansson, Bo Persson (SWE)
- 1972: Stellan Bengtsson, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Anders Johansson, Kjell Johansson , Bo Persson (SWE)
- 1974: Stellan Bengtsson, Anders Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Bo Persson, Ingemar Wikström (SWE)
- 1976: Damir Jurcic, Milivoj Karakašević, Zoran Kosanović, Antun Stipančić, Dragutin Šurbek (YUG)
- 1978: Gábor Gergely, István Jónyer, Tibor Klampár, Tibor Kreisz (HUN)
- 1980: Mikael Appelgren, Stellan Bengtsson, Ulf Carlsson, Erik Lindh, Ulf Thorsell (SWE)
- 1982: Gábor Gergely, István Jónyer, Tibor Klampár, Zsolt Kriston, János Molnár (HUN)
- 1984: Patrick Birocheau, Pierre Campagnolle, Francois Farout, Patrick Renverse, Jacques Secrétin (FRA)
- 1986: Mikael Appelgren, Ulf Carlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1988: Mikael Appelgren, Ulf Bengtsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1990: Mikael Appelgren, Peter Karlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1992: Mikael Appelgren, Peter Karlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1994: Nicolas Chatelain, Patrick Chila, Damien Éloi, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Christophe Legoût (FRA)
- 1996: Peter Karlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Thomas von Scheele, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1998: Nicolas Chatelain, Patrick Chila, Damien Éloi, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Eric Varin (FRA)
- 2000: Fredrik Håkansson, Peter Karlsson, Magnus Molin, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 2002: Fredrik Håkansson, Peter Karlsson, Jens Lundqvist, Magnus Molin, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 2003: Dzmitry Baltrushka, Evgueni Chtchetinine, Dmitry Chumakou, Dmitry Davidovich, Vladimir Samsonov (BLR)
- 2005: Allan Bentsen, Michael Maze, Martin Monrad, Finn Tugwell, Christoffer Petersen (DEN)
- 2007: Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Jörg Roßkopf, Bastian Steger, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2008: Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2009: Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2010: Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Patrick Franziska, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2011: Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Ruwen Filus, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger (GER)
- 2013: Patrick Baum, Patrick Franziska, Ruwen Filus, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger (GER)
- 2014: Tiago Apolónia, Diogo Chen, Marcos Freitas, João Geraldo, João Monteiro (POR)
- 2015: Chen Weixing, Stefan Fegerl, Robert Gardos, Daniel Habesohn, Dominik Habesohn (AUT)
- 2017: Timo Boll, Ruwen Filus, Patrick Franziska, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Ricardo Walther (GER)
- 2019: Timo Boll, Benedikt Duda, Ruwen Filus, Patrick Franziska, Dimitrij Ovtcharov (GER)
- 2021: Benedikt Duda, Ruwen Filus, Patrick Franziska, Dang Qiu, Kay Stumper (GER)
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