Bojan Tokič

Bojan Tokič (born 13 January 1981 in Jajce, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, (now) Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Slovenian table tennis player of Bosnian origin.[1]

Bojan Tokič
Personal information
Full nameBojan Tokić
Nickname(s)Toko
Nationality Slovenia
Born (1981-01-13) 13 January 1981
Jajce, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, (now) Bosnia and Herzegovina
Playing styleShakehand, Offensive
Highest ranking25 (November 2011)
Current ranking65 (April 2020)
Club Panathinaikos
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Slovenia
European Championships
2009 Stuttgart Doubles
2011 Gdańsk-Sopot Singles
2011 Gdańsk-Sopot Doubles

Career

Tokič's first competition was in Montpellier, France where he won the ETTU Cup. Via Cagliari, Italy and Ljubljana, Slovenia he transferred to SV Plüderhausen, Germany in the 2000/2001 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 2005/2006, 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.

Tokič has participated on 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China[2] where he lost in the third round to the eventual champion Ma Lin,[3] and the 2009 World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan.[4][5][6] In 2010 Tokič attended the 2010 Slovenian Open international table tennis tournament.[7] In October 2011 he won a bronze medal in both the Singles and Doubles competitions of the 2011 European Championships. At the 2012 Olympics, he again lost in the third round, this time to Gao Ning of Singapore.[8]

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio he lost in round 4 against Dimitrij Ovtcharov. Bojan took the lead of 1-0 after playing the longest table tennis game in history of Olympic games scoring 64 points total which means he won 33 to 31. In the first game he suffered a pain in his right hand which disabled him to play at his best. At the end he lost 4:1.[9][10]

He is in a relationship with table tennis player Monika Molnar.[11] Tokič is being sponsored by the company Tibhar.

Achievements

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Bojan Tokič napredoval po dramatičnem dvoboju" (in Slovenian). Siol. 20 August 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  3. "Beijing 2008 – Table Tennis – Men's Singles". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  4. "Bojan Tokič premagal olimpijskega prvaka!" (in Slovenian). Delo newspaper. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  5. "Bojan Tokič causes Korean despair, Kim Jung Hoon causes Korean Delight". ITTF NEWS. 30 April 2009. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  6. "Double trouble". The Slovenia Times. 2 October 2009. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  7. "Bojan Tokič already in Velenje". Velenje city. 20 January 2010. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  8. "London 2012 – Table Tennis – Men's Singles". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  9. "Bojan Tokič izgubil, a dobil najdaljši niz v zgodovini OI" (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenija. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  10. "Rio 2016 – Table Tennis – Men's Singles". www.rio2016.com. IOC. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  11. "Bojan Tokič v Tokiu dobil ženitno ponudbo" (in Slovenian). Dnevnik Newspaper. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 August 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ITTF Statistics (Retrieved 28 October 2011).
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