The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 1 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 12th most number of Table Tennis Players behind France, and Slovakia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Austrian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Richard Bergmann (b. 1919)
With an HPI of 47.58, Richard Bergmann is the most famous Austrian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Richard Bergmann (10 April 1919 – 5 April 1970) was an Austrian-British international table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total. He is considered to be one of the greatest players in history, only Viktor Barna has won more World Championship gold medals in singles.
2. Daniel Habesohn (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 0.00, Daniel Habesohn is the 2nd most famous Austrian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Daniel Habesohn (born 22 July 1986) is an Austrian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. Habesohn competed in the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, upsetting Japanese player and number 15 seed Kenta Matsudaira but he then went on to lose to number 33 seed Lin Gaoyuan. He teamed with Robert Gardos in the men's doubles event, losing in the first round in a close match with the Belarusian duo of Vladimir Samsonov and Pavel Platonov. In the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed as part of the Austrian team in the men's team event. Later, in the 2020 Summer Olympics, he participated in the men's singles event where he received a bye in the first round, defeated Clarence Chew in the second round, but eventually lost to Marcos Freitas in the third round.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Austrian table tennis players born between 1919 and 1986. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Austrian table tennis players include Daniel Habesohn. The most famous deceased Austrian table tennis players include Richard Bergmann. As of April 2024, 1 new Austrian table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Daniel Habesohn.
