Tag: Dortmund
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18th Title for Both Chinese Teams, World Champions Defeat European Champions
Dortmund-Germany, April 01, 2012: Title Chinese Teams,The winners two years earlier in Moscow, China retained their Men´sTeam title at the LIEBHERR World TeamTable Tennis Championships in Dortmund on Sunday 1st April 2012, and thus held high the Swaythling Cup for an unprecedented 18th time. At the final hurdle, China overcame Germany as they did in…
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Ping Pong for Peace at Dortmund World Championships
Dortmund-Germany, March 29, 2012: Flight delays due to a strike in Frankfurt Airport, lost luggage and a fire evacuation in the mall – the children from Burundi (as part of the “Ping Pong Paix” project), despite all these troubles, kept their spirits high during their visit to the World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund. Background…
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LIEBHERR 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships, Dortmund
By Hubert Gueriau, LIEBHERR 2012, This is the sixth time that Germany is hosting the World Championships. After Bremen in 2006, Dortmund is receiving for the third time (after 1969 and 1989) a test which is to host the most elite event in the world of table tennis. In Berlin (1930) and Dortmund (1969, 1989…