Tiago Apolónia
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| Equipment(s) | Butterfly Tiago Apolonia ZLC (blade), Butterfly Tenergy 05 Hard (Black, FH), Butterfly Dignics 05 (Red, BH) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 13 (November 2014)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 49 (20 February 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | TTC Neu-Ulm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia[3] (born 28 July 1986) is a Portuguese table tennis player for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen and Portugal. As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eighteenth player in the world.[2]
Career
Born in
Junior World Championships in 2003, both partnering Marcos Freitas.[4]
After playing for German clubs TTC indeland Jülich, 1. FC Saarbrücken and TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen, he arrived at his current club TTC Neu-Ulm in 2019. In 2006, he won his first ITTF Pro Tour Doubles title in São Paulo, partnering João 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.[5]
He qualified for the
Beijing
, where he competed in the Men's Singles. Poor guy.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the Portuguese men's team.[6]
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
- ^ "APOLONIA, Tiago". Butterfly Online.
- ^ a b "ITTF world ranking". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Portugueses | Tóquio 2020". PÚBLICO.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
External links
- Tiago Apolónia at World Table Tennis
- Tiago Apolónia at Olympedia
- Tiago Apolónia at Olympics.com
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