(1981-03-08) 8 March 1981 (age 43) Erbach, West Germany[1]
Height
1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight
72 kg (159 lb)[1]
Table tennis career
Playing style
Left-handed, shakehand grip
Equipment(s)
Butterfly Timo Boll ALC blade; Butterfly Dignics 09c (Black, FH); Butterfly Dignics 09c (Red, BH) Early career = Donic
Highest ranking
1 (January 2003)[2]
Current ranking
26 (30 March 2024)[3]
Club
Borussia Düsseldorf[4]
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing Germany
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games
0
2
2
World Championships
0
6
3
World Cup
2
3
2
Total
2
11
7
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing
Team
2020 Tokyo
Team
2012 London
Team
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Team
World Championships
2004 Doha
Team
2005 Shanghai
Doubles
2010 Moscow
Team
2012 Dortmund
Team
2014 Tokyo
Team
2018 Halmstad
Team
2011 Rotterdam
Singles
2006 Bremen
Team
2021 Houston
Singles
World Cup
2002 Jinan
Singles
2005 Liège
Singles
2008 Liège
Singles
2012 Liverpool
Singles
2017 Liège
Singles
2018 Paris
Singles
2014 Düsseldorf
Singles
2010 Magdeburg
Singles
European Games
2019 Minsk
Singles
2019 Minsk
Team
2023 Kraków–Małopolska
Team
European Championships
2002 Zagreb
Singles
2002 Zagreb
Doubles
2007 Belgrade
Singles
2007 Belgrade
Doubles
2007 Belgrade
Team
2008 Saint-Petersburg
Singles
2008 Saint-Petersburg
Doubles
2008 Saint-Petersburg
Team
2009 Stuttgart
Doubles
2009 Stuttgart
Team
2010 Ostrava
Singles
2010 Ostrava
Doubles
2010 Ostrava
Team
2011 Gdansk-Sopot
Singles
2011 Gdansk-Sopot
Team
2012 Herning
Singles
2017 Luxembourg
Team
2018 Alicante
Singles
2019 Nantes
Team
2021 Warsaw
Singles
2000 Bremen
Team
2002 Zagreb
Team
2003 Courmayeur
Team
2014 Lisbon
Team
2023 Malmö
Team
2003 Courmayeur
Singles
2005 Aarhus
Doubles
2009 Stuttgart
Singles
2016 Budapest
Singles
Timo Boll (German pronunciation:[ˈtiːmoˈbɔl], audioⓘ; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. He is currently ranked 45th in the ITTF world rankings as of January 2024.[5] Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time, having won several medals at Olympic Games, world cups, and world championships.[6] He was ranked world No. 1 in 2003, 2011 and in March 2018.[7]
^ abc"BOLL Timo". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
^"Ranking progression". ittf.com. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
^"ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ittf.com. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
^Concha, Romina (1 September 2011). "Timo Boll will stay with Borussia until 2014". tabletennista.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
^"Senior Men's Singles". www.ittf.com. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
^"Timo Boll". Table Tennis Media. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
^"Timo Boll, once again on top of the world – International Table Tennis Federation". International Table Tennis Federation. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
TimoBoll (German pronunciation: [ˈtiːmo ˈbɔl], audio; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia...
won the silver medal as part of the German men's team, together with TimoBoll and Christian Süß. He used a special technique in his serves, which was...
to his full ability under pressure. This was evident in his losses to TimoBoll and Vladimir Samsonov in the 2008 and 2009 World Cup semifinals, and to...
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the WTTC and won the gold medal by defeating Joo-Sae Hyuk, Wang Liqin, TimoBoll and Wang Hao, making an epic celebration by ripping his shirt after winning...
Award Winners Archived April 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. ittf.com "TimoBoll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov Withdraw From Internal Olympic Scrimmage Due To...
Championships, where he was upset in the semi-finals by eventual champion TimoBoll. Falck had a disappointing Olympics, losing in the round of 16 in the...
Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany after defeating the German favorite TimoBoll in the semis. Maze (representing Denmark) was defeated during the 2012...
vulnerable middle. In 2021, TimoBoll stated that he felt that he and Fan played a similar style except that Fan was better. Boll did not elaborate further...
In the third round, Aruna faced world-renowned German player TimoBoll. Aruna defeated Boll (4-2), earning him a spot in the Quarter Finals. In the Quarter...
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Ovtcharov TimoBoll 2020 Tokyo details China (CHN) Fan Zhendong Ma Long Xu Xin Germany (GER) Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Franziska TimoBoll Japan (JPN)...
TimoBoll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Bastian Steger 2016 Rio China Ma Long Xu Xin Zhang Jike Japan Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Maharu Yoshimura Germany TimoBoll Dimitrij...
specially-designed equipment made by Butterfly Table Tennis. He uses the TimoBoll spirit blade, while using Tenergy 05 rubber on both sides of his racket...
Zhendong Ma Long Xu Xin Germany Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Franziska TimoBoll Japan Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Tomokazu Harimoto Women's singles details...
Wang Hao Wang Liqin Ma Lin Ma Long 2011 Rotterdam Zhang Jike Wang Hao TimoBoll Ma Long 2013 Paris Zhang Jike Wang Hao Ma Long Xu Xin 2015 Suzhou Ma Long...
Players were seeded according to the European ranking for February 2019. TimoBoll (bronze medalist) Mattias Falck (first round) Dimitrij Ovtcharov (champion)...
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