Jakab qualified for the men's singles tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving an allocation spot from the Final World Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary.[4][5][6] He received a single bye in the preliminary round, before defeating French table tennis player and former Olympic bronze medalist Patrick Chila in his first match. Jakab progressed to the second round, but narrowly lost to European doubles champion Christian Süß of Germany, receiving a final set score of 1–4.[7]
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jános, jakab, born, july, 1986, budapest, hungarian, table, tennis, player, february, 2013, jakab, ranked, world, international, table, tennis, federation, ittf, jakab, member, table, tennis, team, levallois, sporting, club, levallois, perret, france, coached,. Janos Jakab born 23 July 1986 in Budapest is a Hungarian table tennis player 3 As of February 2013 Jakab is ranked no 183 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation ITTF 2 Jakab is a member of the table tennis team for Levallois Sporting Club in Levallois Perret France and is coached and trained by Peter Aranyosi 1 He is also right handed and uses the classic grip 1 Janos JakabNationality HungaryBorn 1986 07 23 23 July 1986 age 37 Budapest HungaryHeight1 79 m 5 ft 10 1 2 in Weight72 kg 159 lb Table tennis careerPlaying styleRight handed classic 1 Equipment s Butterfly Timo Spirit 1 Highest ranking57 September 2010 2 Current ranking183 February 2013 2 ClubLevallois Sporting Club FRA 1 The native form of this personal name is Jakab Janos This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals Jakab qualified for the men s singles tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving an allocation spot from the Final World Qualification Tournament in Budapest Hungary 4 5 6 He received a single bye in the preliminary round before defeating French table tennis player and former Olympic bronze medalist Patrick Chila in his first match Jakab progressed to the second round but narrowly lost to European doubles champion Christian Suss of Germany receiving a final set score of 1 4 7 References edit a b c d e ITTF World Player Profile Janos Jakab ITTF Retrieved 26 February 2013 a b c ITTF World Ranking Janos Jakab ITTF Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 25 February 2013 Evans Hilary Gjerde Arild Heijmans Jeroen Mallon Bill et al Janos Jakab Olympics at Sports Reference com Sports Reference LLC Archived from the original on 3 December 2016 Retrieved 26 February 2013 Players Qualified for the Olympic Games PDF ITTF Archived from the original PDF on 15 August 2012 Retrieved 26 February 2013 Widmer Marius 15 May 2008 Hungarian Shocked by Results ITTF Retrieved 26 February 2013 Widmer Marius 10 May 2008 Two Hungarian Men Prevail in Seven Tough Games ITTF Retrieved 26 February 2013 Men s Singles Second Round NBC Olympics Archived from the original on 21 August 2012 Retrieved 26 February 2013 External links editJanos Jakab at World Table Tennis NBC 2008 Olympics profile at the Wayback Machine archived 23 August 2012 Janos Jakab at Olympics com Janos Jakab at Olympedia nbsp Janos Jakab at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottsag in Hungarian English translation nbsp nbsp This biographical article relating to a Hungarian table tennis figure is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Janos Jakab amp oldid 1194716486, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
