Jörg Roßkopf is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 international table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 player. He won the title in men's doubles at the 1989 World Championships

World Table Tennis Championships

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 and the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

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 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 together with Steffen Fetzner

Steffen Fetzner

Steffen Fetzner is a male former table tennis player from Germany. From 1989 to 2000 he won several medals in doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships, in the World Table Tennis Championships, and in the Table Tennis World Cup...

. In singles competition, he won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

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 in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

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 and the title of World Cup

Table Tennis World Cup

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 1998.

He is one of seven table tennis players to have competed at the first five Olympics since the sport was introduced to the Games in 1988. The others are Swede Jörgen Persson

Jörgen Persson

Jörgen Persson is a Swedish table tennis player. In two memorable World Table Tennis Championships finals he faced fellow Swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter....

, Croatian Zoran Primorac

Zoran Primorac

Zoran Primorac is an accomplished male table tennis player from Croatia. He is considered to be among the best European players in the last 25 years .-Biography:Primorac was born in Zadar and started playing...

, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive

Jean-Michel Saive

Jean-Michel Saive is a Belgian professional table tennis player.Born in Liège in a table tennis playing family, Saive was predestined to become a very good table tennis player and began playing as a small boy...

, Hungarian Csilla Bátorfi

Csilla Bátorfi

Csilla Bátorfi is a Hungarian table tennis player. She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1988 to 2004. She won several titles in European Championships....

, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku

Ilija Lupulesku

Ilija Lupulesku is a former Yugoslav and now Serbian table tennis player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He compeeted for USA from 2004 to 2006 including 2004 Summer...

, and Swede Jan-Ove Waldner

Jan-Ove Waldner

Jan-Ove Waldner is a Swedish table tennis player. He is known as "the Mozart of table tennis" and is a legend in his native Sweden as well as in China. In China he is known as 老瓦 Lao Wa - "Old Wa" or 常青树 Chang Qing Shu - "Evergreen"...

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After his retirement in 2010, Rosskopf is currently the men's national coach for Germany.

Outstanding career stages

• 1998 - European Champion doubles Eindhoven
• 1998 - Winner of the World Cup singles Shantou
  Shantou
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• 1996 - 3rd singles Olympic Games Atlanta
• 1992 - European Champion singles Stuttgart
  Stuttgart
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• 1992 - 2nd doubles Olympic Games Barcelona
  Barcelona
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• 1989 - World Champion doubles with Steffen Fetzner
  Steffen Fetzner
  Steffen Fetzner is a male former table tennis player from Germany. From 1989 to 2000 he won several medals in doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships, in the World Table Tennis Championships, and in the Table Tennis World Cup...
  
   Dortmund
  Dortmund
  Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....