Jörg Roßkopf
Table tennis, Olympic athlete
1969 –
Who is Jörg Roßkopf?
Jörg Roßkopf is a German international table tennis player. He won the title in men's doubles at the 1989 World Championships and the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with Steffen Fetzner. In singles competition, he won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the title of World Cup 1998.
He is one of seven table tennis players to have competed at the first five Olympics since the sport was introduced to the Games in 1988. The others are Swede Jörgen Persson, Croatian Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Hungarian Csilla Bátorfi, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, and Swede Jan-Ove Waldner.
After his retirement in 2010, Rosskopf is currently the men's national coach for Germany.
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- Born
- May 22, 1969
Dieburg - Also known as
- Jorg Rosskopf
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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