Tamara Boroš
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| Nationality | Croatia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 December 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 2 (2002)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tamara Boroš (born 19 December 1977) is a Croatian table tennis player. She is one of the relatively rare European players in modern times who has successfully competed at the highest level with players from Asian countries.
Boroš was born in a Hungarian family in Senta. As a junior, she played for the local table tennis club STK Senta.[2] After the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars in 1991, she stayed in Sweden, finally settling in Zagreb, Croatia (with her parents) in 1993.[3][4] Neven Cegnar became her new coach.
In 2002, Boroš reached a career-high world ranking at No. 2.
She won the bronze medal at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships. She is one of only two non-Asian players to have won a women's singles medal at World Championships over the last 50 years (from 1977 to 2026).
She has won 12 medals at European Table Tennis Championships. In 1998, she won silver, while in 2000, 2002, and 2005 she won bronze medals in women's singles. She is a three-time European Champion in women's doubles (2002, 2003, and 2005). With the Croatian national team, she has won silver medals in 2003 and 2005, and bronze in 2000, 2008, and 2009.
At the Mediterranean Games, she has won gold medals in 2001 and 2005, and a silver medal in 1997 in the women's singles event. She has also won a gold medal in the 1997 women's doubles event.
Boroš retired from competitive table tennis in 2012. After working as a coach at the Werner Schlager Academy in Vienna,[4][5] in 2017 Boroš started working for the German Table Tennis Association, coaching the national U-23 team in Düsseldorf.[6] Since 2021, she has been coaching the German national Women's team.[7]
In 2015, Boroš was inducted into the European Table Tennis Hall of Fame.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Tamara Boros". European Table Tennis Hall of Fame. European Table Tennis Union. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "O Nama" (in Serbian). Stonoteniski klub - Senta. Archived from the original on 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
- ^ Bojan Vinek (February 2004). "Tamara Boroš, najbolja hrvatska stolnotenisačica: Najveća prijetnja Kineskinjama". Olimp (in Croatian). No. 11. Croatian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
- ^ a b "Tamara Boroš, ikona pingića na kineskoj crnoj listi".
- ^ "Interview with Tamara Boros Former World No 2 Table Tennis Player. The Key to Success: Positive Mental Attitude". 12 November 2014.
- ^ "Tamara Boroš počinje raditi za Njemački savez".
- ^ "Schöpp übergibt 2021 nach Olympia an Boros".
External links
- Table tennis results
- Tamara on YouTube (a 2013 documentary film about Tamara Boroš, in Croatian, with English subtitles)