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German legend Jorg Rosskopf Having Some Fun!

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]It looks like it is for a German TV show. When Rosskopf won the World Men’s Doubles title in Dortmund, Germany in 1989, Germany got a really big boost in table-tennis. The capacity crowd was going crazy during their run and especially when they upset the defending World Champions from China!
This was the same World Championship that the golden generation of Swedish table-tennis led by Jan-Ove Waldner and Jorgen Persson won their first major titles and began defeating China. Rosskopf would go on to win the European Men’s Singles title in Stuttgart, Germany in 1992 so seems to play better in front of his home crowd. He also won a silver medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in men’s doubles with Steffen Fetzner and won the bronze in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in men’s singles. He has recently been head coach of the German men’s team where he has coached Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov who are two of the biggest threats to China. 

This is a picture I took of Jorg Rosskopf moments after winning the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where I was doing stats and scorekeeping. His quarterfinal match where he beat Korea’s Kim Taek Soo for the first time 26-24 in the deciding 5th game was the most exciting match I’ve ever seen and the crowd gave a standing ovation at the end of the match. I was sitting courtside and working that match and I couldn’t stop shaking in the 2nd half of the 5th game! My German friend who I lived with when I was practicing in Germany for 3 months in 1995 said I was on German TV throughout this match sitting directly behind the server probably seeming to be calm!

German legend Jorg Rosskopf is seen here playing table-tennis with a cooking pan, shovel, sword, and pizza![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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