Jacques Secrétin

Jacques Secrétin is a male former international table tennis player from France.

Jacques Secrétin
Jacques Secrétin (left) with Marie-Christine Debourse and François Jouvenet
Personal information
Full nameJacques Secrétin
Nationality France
BornFrance

Table tennis career

From 1974 to 1986 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and five medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.[1][2]

He won a gold medal in the mixed doubles event with Claude Bergeret at the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships in Birmingham.[3][4][5]

Biography

Born in a mining region of northern France, he comes from a family of table tennis champions. Lefthanded, he began competing at age of eight. 26-year career, he was with Jean-Philippe Gatien, one of the most successful table tennis players of France, world champion mixed doubles in 1977 with Claude Bergeret, 3 times bronze medal in men's doubles, quadruple European champion (including a single in 1976 against the Soviet Anatoly Strokatov final and doubles with Patrick Birocheau), 61 times champions of France (17 times in men's singles, 10 times in men's doubles, mixed doubles 11 times, 6 times with Claude Bergeret and 4 times with Martine Le Bras, 23 times by teams).[6]

See also

References
  1. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  2. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  3. http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=6392
  4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  5. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  6. http://music-ping-show.com
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