EUROPEAN

LIEBHERR Table Tennis

Championships

15 - 20 October 2024

European top-class table tennis is coming to the TipsArena in Linz in 2024. Get all the information about the event, the location and the top-class field of participants here in advance.

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ABOUT

Top-class table tennis comes to Upper Austria

since 1958

held by the ETTU

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The Location

TipsArena Linz:
Where Sports meets Entertainment and Business

Bruckner-Haus

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The Stars

Local Hero Sofia Polcanova aiming for title defense

Austrian #1 Sofia Polcanova is the reigning european champion in singles and women's doubles after her triumphs in Munich 2022. She lives in Linz and of course she hopes for huge home crowd support.

Other great european table tennis aces are Dang Qiu and Félix Lebrun (France), Truls Möregårdh and Kristian Karlsson (Sweden) as well as reigning mixed champions Yuan Jia Nan and Emmanuel Lebesson from France.

A total of around 300 players plus coaches, journalists and officials from 50 nations will take part in the LIEBHERR European Championships.

Schedule

Find out when the Stars will be in action

With gold medals up for grabs in five fiercely contested events – Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles, and Mixed Doubles – the stage is set for an unforgettable display of athleticism and precision.

Find out more about the schedule from 15th to 20th October and get ready to witness history at the LIEBHERR European Championships in Linz.

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Friday, 18 October 2024

Saturday, 19 October 2024

Sunday, 20 October 2024

CONTACTS

VIP & Media & Hotel

Your VIP contact:

For questions regarding VIP packages please contact Conrad Miller

Your contacts for Media inquiries:

Our media team: Miguel Daxner, Dominic Marsano, Klaus Rieder

Your contact for Hotel inquiries:

You are a table tennis fan, volunteer, Media staff or want to take part at the LIEBHERR European Championships?
If you are looking for a hotel, please contact Julia Walter for tips and offers.

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DID YOU KNOW, THAT

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Table tennis based on the time between two ball contacts
is the fastest racket sport in the world

the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) with 227 members is the largest professional international sport association in the world

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there are more than 500 table tennis clubs in Austria, in which more than 25,000 players regularly play the sport

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due to the high ball speeds and the short distance between players, reaction times with only a few hundred milliseconds

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a ball can reach speeds of up to 120 km/h and the ball rotates up to 150 times per second

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Austria with Trude Pritzi, Richard Bergmann and Werner Schlager has three individual world champions

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Austria with, among others, Andreas Vevera, Stani Frazcyk and Rosa Schweizer has 18 Para Olympic champions

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RULES OF THE GAME

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the table

The surface of the table, the "playing surface", is rectangular, 2.74 m long and 1.525 m wide and lies in a horizontal plane76 cm above the floor.

The playing surface must be uniformly dark-coloured and matt, but along of the edges have a 2 cm wide white "side line" or "end line".

For doubles, each court is marked by a 3 mm wide white "centre line", which runs parallel with the side lines and divides the court into two equal half-courts; the centre line is considered to be part of each right halve-court.

Tischtennis Tisch Regeln

The official European Championship table is from DONIC

RULES OF THE GAME

the net

The net set consists of the net, its suspension and the posts including the clamps used to attach them to the table.

The top of the net, along its whole length, shall be 15.25 cm above the playing surface.

The bottom of the net, along its whole length, shall be as close as possible to the playing surface and the ends of the net shall be attached to the supporting posts from top to bottom.

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RULES OF THE GAME

the ball

The ball is evenly rounded.

Its diameter is 40 mm.

The weight of the ball is 2.7 g.

The ball is made of plastic material and is matt white or matt orange.

The official European Championship ball is from Nittaku

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RULES OF THE GAME

the racket

The racket may be of any size, shape or weight but the blade shall be flat and rigid. At least 85% of the blade by thickness shall be of natural wood; an adhesive layer within the blade may be reinforced with fibrous material such as carbon fibre, glass fibre or compressed paper, but shall not be thicker than 7.5% of the total thickness or 0.35mm, whichever is the smaller.

Before the start of a match and whenever he or she changes his or her racket during a match a player shall show his or her opponent and the umpire the racket he or she is about to use and shall allow them to examine it.

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RULES OF THE GAME

the serve

Service shall start with the ball resting freely on the open palm of the server's stationary free hand.

The server shall then project the ball near vertically upwards, without imparting spin, so that it rises at least 16 cm after leaving the palm of the free hand and then falls without touching anything before being struck.



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RULES OF THE GAME

the return

The ball, having been served or returned, shall be struck so that it touches the opponent's court, either directly or after touching the net assembly.

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RULES OF THE GAME

a game

A game shall be won by the player or pair first scoring 11 points unless both players or pairs score 10 points, when the game shall be won by the first player or pair subsequently gaining a lead of 2 points.

a match

A match shall consist of the best of any odd number of games.

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