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Nationality | Belgium | ||||||||||||||
Born | Liège | 2 July 1971||||||||||||||
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Philippe Saive is a male former international table tennis player from Belgium. [1]
He won a silver medal at the 2001 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Martin Bratanov, Marc Closset, Andras Podpinka, and Jean-Michel Saive (his brother) for Belgium. [2] [3] [4]
He competed in three Olympic Games in 1992, 1996, and 2000. [5]
He is the younger brother of retired professional table tennis player Jean-Michel Saive.
Jean-Michel Saive is a Belgian former professional table tennis player. Saive competed at seven consecutive Olympics between 1988 and 2012, and he was also a winner in singles at European Championship 1994.
Jörg Roßkopf is a former professional German table tennis player who is currently the head coach of the German Men's National Table Tennis Team. As a player, he won the title in Men's Doubles at the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships and the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, with Steffen Fetzner as his partner. In men's singles, he won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the gold medal at the Table Tennis World Cup in 1998. As a coach, he was awarded the ITTF Star Coach award in 2017.
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Zoran Primorac is a retired male table tennis player from Croatia. He is a two-time winner of the World Cup and one of only three table tennis players to have competed at seven Olympic Games. His highest ITTF world ranking was number 2, in 1998.
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Martin Bratanov is a Bulgarian-born male former international table tennis player from Belgium.
Marc Closset is a male former international table tennis player from Belgium.
Andras Podpinka is a male former international table tennis player from Belgium.
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