Panathinaikos (table tennis club)

Panathinaikos AC
Nicknames The Trifolium
The Great Club
Founded 1924
Based in Athens, Greece
Stadium Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium
President Dimitrios Giannakopoulos
Head coach Kostas Nikopoulos
Website panathinaikos1908.gr

The table tennis department of Panathinaikos A.O. was founded in 1924 by the great player Nikos Mantzaroglou. Through the next decades Panathinaikos became one of the best table tennis teams in Greece with a lot of successes in both men and women.

In 1974, the men's team had its biggest success in the European competitions. In the ETTU Cup, Panathinaikos passed Turnerschaft Innsbruck, Centro Sportivo Milano, TTC Rot-Weiß Hamburg and reached the semi-finals, where they disqualified by Hertha BSC Berlin.

Notable players

Nikos Mantzaroglou
  • Spyros Giannakopoulos
  • Giannis Kalogiannis
  • Nikos Kostopoulos
  • Maria Louka
  • Stamatina Louka
  • Nikos Mantzaroglou
  • Kostas Priftis
  • Lena Ralli
  • Eleni Vlachaki
  • Betty Janes Klosky

Honours

  • Greek Clubs' Championship, Men (11):
    • 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956,1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1975
  • Greek Clubs' Championship, Women (3):
    • 1972, 1973, 1974
  • Greek Cup, Men (3):
    • 1965,1966, 1969
  • Greek Cup, Women (1):
    • 1972
  • ETTU Cup
    • Semi-finals (1): 1974

Sources

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