Bojan Tokić Explained

Bojan Tokić
Fullname:Bojan Tokić
Nickname:Toko
Nationality:Slovenian
Playingstyle:Shakehand, Offensive
Hrank:25 (November 2011)
Crank:62 (21 September 2021)
Birth Date:1981 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Jajce, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Show-Medals:yes

Bojan Tokić (born 13 January 1981) is a Slovenian table tennis player.[1]

Career

Tokić's first competition was in Montpellier, where he won the ETTU Cup. Via Cagliari, Italy and Ljubljana, Slovenia he transferred to SV Plüderhausen, Germany in the 2000–01 season. He then went back to Slovenia to work within a training group, with which he stayed for three years. In 2003, he returned to Germany to play for TTC Frickenhausen. In 2005–06, he won the ETTU Cup, the DTTB Cup and the German League with the TTC Frickenhausen. In the 2007 European Championships he reached the quarter-finals in the men's singles competition.

Tokić has participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,[2] where he lost in the third round to the eventual champion Ma Lin.[3] At the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, he lost in the third round against Kaii Yoshida.[4] In 2010, Tokić attended the 2010 Slovenian Open international table tennis tournament.[5] In October 2011, he won a bronze medal in both the singles and doubles competitions of the 2011 European Championships.[6] At the 2012 Olympics, he again lost in the third round, this time to Gao Ning of Singapore.[7]

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he lost in the fourth round against Dimitrij Ovtcharov. Tokić took the 1–0 lead after playing the longest table tennis game in history of the Olympics, scoring 64 points total which means he won 33 to 31. He eventually lost the game 4–1.[8] [9]

Achievements

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ITTF Database . 20 June 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121017021927/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=7219 . 17 October 2012 .
  2. Web site: Bojan Tokič napredoval po dramatičnem dvoboju . . 31 December 2010. 20 August 2008 . Slovenian.
  3. Web site: Beijing 2008 – Table Tennis – Men's Singles . 14 January 2015 . olympic.org . IOC .
  4. Web site: Japonec Jošido premočan za Tokiča . sta.si . . 27 July 2021 . sl . 1 May 2009.
  5. Web site: Bojan Tokič already in Velenje . mops.velenje.si . 31 December 2010 . 20 January 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316155454/http://www.mops.velenje.si/2010/en/novice.php?page_number=2&id=5 . 16 March 2012 .
  6. Web site: Tokič se iz Gdanska vrača z dvema kolajnama. sta.si . . 27 July 2021 . sl . 16 October 2011.
  7. Web site: London 2012 – Table Tennis – Men's Singles . 14 January 2015 . olympic.org . IOC .
  8. Web site: Tokić sicer izgubil, a dobil najdaljši niz v zgodovini OI . . 9 August 2016. 9 August 2016 . sl. Slavko. Jerič.
  9. Web site: Rio 2016 – Table Tennis – Men's Singles . 9 August 2016. rio2016.com . IOC . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160807025116/https://www.rio2016.com/en/table-tennis-schedule-and-results . 7 August 2016 .
  10. Web site: ITTF Interim . 2016-09-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100814160323/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/ . 14 August 2010 . ITTF Statistics (Retrieved 28 October 2011).

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