International Table Tennis Federation 22 Dec 2020
Player, official, businessman; there have been many landmarks in his illustrious career, on Tuesday 22nd December, there is yet another.
Eberhard Schöler celebrates his 80th birthday.
Ebby Scholer at the 1973 World Championships in Sarajevo (Photo - Mal Anderson)
by Ian Marshall
Born in Zlotow in north west Poland, always known as “Ebby”, he succeeded his wife, Diane, as President of the Swaythling Club International in 2013, a position he holds currently, having taken a one-year break in 2018/2019 when fulfilling the role of Deputy President.
It is during his tenure of office, at meetings held at the Liebherr 2017 World Championships in Düsseldorf and ratified two years later in Budapest that the overall responsibility for the World Veteran Championships was transferred from the Swaythling Club International to the International Table Tennis Federation.
Table tennis world team c ships canceled in due to Covid-19
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Tue, Dec 22 2020 23:36 IST |
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Manika Batra. Image Source: IANS News
Seoul, Dec 22 : The 2020 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships was cancelled amid the COVID-19 resurgence in South Korea, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) announced on Tuesday.
The ITTF executive committee met on Monday with representatives from the continents to cancel the championships, originally scheduled to take place in March in Busan, the South Korean southeast port city, Xinhua news reports.
The competition was already postponed three times this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The daily number of infections here have hovered around 1,000 in recent days, raising the total cases to 51,460 as of midnight Tuesday.
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