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Nationality | Portuguese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Ochsenhausen, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lisbon, Portugal | 28 July 1986|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Table tennis career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Shakehand, Offensive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Butterfly Tiago Apolonia ZLC (blade), Butterfly Dignics 05 (FH), Butterfly Dignics 05 (BH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 13 (November 2014)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 18 (August 2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia (born 28 July 1986) is a Portuguese table tennis player who plays for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen. As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eighteenth player in the world.[1]
Career
Born in Lisbon, Apolónia began playing table tennis aged six at his hometown club Estrela da Amadora. As a youth player, he was crowned European Junior Doubles champion in 2004 and won a silver medal in the Doubles competition at the Junior World Championships in 2003, both partnering Marcos Freitas.[2] After playing for German clubs TTC indeland Jülich and 1. FC Saarbrücken, he arrived at his current club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen. In 2006, he won his first ITTF Pro Tour Doubles title in São Paulo, partnering Joao Monteiro. His first ITTF Pro Tour Singles title followed in October 2010 with the Austrian Open in Wels, where he beat Germany's Timo Boll in the final.[3]
He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the Men's Singles.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the Portuguese men's team.[4]
In 2015 he won first place with his national team (João Geraldo and Marcos Freitas) in table tennis at the 2015 European Games in Baku.
References
- ^ a b "ITTF world ranking". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=8200&NAMES=APOLONIA+Tiago+%28POR%29&Assoc1=POR&Assoc=&s_Gender=&s_Names=apolonia& ITTF Statistics (10/01/2012).
- ^ http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=22377&Competition_ID=1988& ITTF Articles (10/01/2012).
- ^ "Tiago Apolónia Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
External links
- Tiago Apolónia at World Table Tennis
- Tiago Apolónia at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Lisbon
- Portuguese male table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players of Portugal
- European Games gold medalists for Portugal
- European Games medalists in table tennis
- European Games competitors for Portugal
- Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
- S.L. Benfica (table tennis)
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games
- European Games bronze medalists for Portugal