ITTF Para Table Tennis

[Hovis Bread Eater]

Great Britian will have representatives at the Beijing Paralympic Table Tennis Event.

The selection of players will be known 15th February 2008

Will post again when known

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

hi hovis pleased to see that your still going strong with the disabled table tennis setup,good luck in beijing...........:thumbsup:

[Hovis Bread Eater]

The final competition before The Paralympic Games in Beijing was held recently in Wuppertal Germany against 32 other nations.
The Great Britain squad of 16 contained 8 players who will be competing in Beijing.
The Squad came home with 2 Golds, 3 Silvers and 4 bronze medals.
The cream of the crop was Scott Robertson of Deeside who won Gold in the Class 5 Men’s Singles, his performance was exceptional with an event containing the World and Parlaympic Champions from Sweden and Korea. On the way to winning Gold, Scott beat for the first time the Silver medallist from Athens Jung of Korea.
Not to be outdone Top Seeds Will Bayley and Paul Karabardak won gold in Class 7 Team event beating the Ukraine for the very first time 3-1, which included a first for Will beating Popov, one of the favourites for Beijing. The GB second team of Farrell Anthony and Joe Stotesbury claimed bronze in the same event beating Belguim 3-2 after trailing 2-0.
Will Bayley picked up a second medal in the Class 7 singles beating Paul Karabardak in an all GB bronze medal match.
Sue Gilroy had an excellent victory against Lundback of Sweden the current Eurpoean Open Champion in the bronze medal match in the Womens Open Singles, she continued her good form claiming a silver in the Class 4 womens singles.
Sara Head who is currently first reserve for the Class 3 singles in Beijing continued her good from claiming the Silver in the Women’s Class 3 singles.
Jane Campbell having changed her style of play after failing to qualify for Beijing is starting to reap rewards and partnering her Russian team mate won Silver losing out to European team Silver medallists Italy.
Cathy Mitton claimed bronze in the women’s Class 2 singles.
Neil Robinson just missed out on a bronze medal in the Open singles match losing out to current Class 3 Paralympic Champion from Korea,
The squad now have two more training camps at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield before the Fly out to Hong Kong on the 24th August for their Holding camp in Hong Kong.
For more information contact
Andrew Horsfield, Head Coach – Tel 07970 610069

[DaveR]

Thanks Andy for that, plus please keep us up to date as i look for obviously most articles and need anyone to keep us up to speed in every area, the Table Tennis paralympics is as important as everything else.

Cheers

dave

[Hovis Bread Eater]

i will, at least it will ber published on here,

Sent BBC, Parlaympics GB, ETTA and Welsh the same information and only the Welsh Website put the information on.

Would be nice for the others to acknowledge the press release,

[DaveR]

Its pretty much the same red tape andy with the most "attractive" getting the rights ............which is daft really as it all has merits in my opinion and i hope in others also

[Hovis Bread Eater]

BBC have been told that there will be live feeds on one table at the paralympics and if British players play on that table then it hopefully will be on BBC interactive.

[DaveR]

If you find or have a live RSS feed just send me the link and ill add a feed to a side collumn etc.