Adham Sharara

picture info	Adham Sharara Adham Sharara (born Cairo 24 March 1953) is a Canadian sports official. He is current Chairman and Honorary President of the International Table Tennis Federation, having succeeded Xu Yinsheng Xu Yinsheng (; born 12 May 1938 in Shanghai) is a male former table tennis player from China. Table tennis career From 1959 to 1965 he won seven medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. His seven Wor ... in 1999. He retired as ITTF President on 2014, and was succeeded by the Deputy President the German Thomas Weikert. President of the ITTF Adham Sharara was President of the ITTF for 14 years, from 1999 to 2014. In November 2007, Adham Sharara addressed the health risks related to using rubbers that are freshly glued to the blade for "a faster game" because of the associated harmful volatile compounds. In February 2008, he expressed his agreement with the proposal to limit citizenship-switching players, a measure that targeted specifically C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mondial Ping - Press Conference - 11 Mondial may refer to: * Mondial (amusement ride manufacturer) * Mondial (motorcycle manufacturer) * Mondial House * Mondial (company), a Brazilian electronics company * Mondial language, an international auxiliary language * Ferrari Mondial The Ferrari Mondial (Type F108) is a mid-engined, V8, grand tourer manufactured and marketed by Ferrari between 1980 and 1993 – with styling by Pininfarina and bodywork by Carrozzeria Scaglietti. Offered as either a 2+2 coupé or cabriolet, t ... , an automobile manufactured from 1980 to 1993 {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	International Table Tennis Federation The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ... associations. The role of the ITTF includes overseeing rules and regulations and seeking technological improvement for the sport of table tennis. The ITTF is responsible for the organization of numerous international competitions, including the World Table Tennis Championships that has continued since 1926. Founding history The ITTF was founded in 1926 by William Henry Lawes from Wymondham, the nine founding members being First Austrian Republic, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Weimar Republic, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Kingdom of Hungary, British India, Sweden, and Wales. The first international tournament was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Xu Yinsheng Xu Yinsheng (; born 12 May 1938 in Shanghai) is a male former table tennis player from China. Table tennis career From 1959 to 1965 he won seven medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. His seven World Championship medals included four gold medals; three in the team event and one in the doubles with Zhuang Zedong at the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships. He was the coach of the national team in Nagoya 1971 World Championship. Professional Achievements He was president of the International Table Tennis Federation from 1995, following the sudden death of Sven-Olof Hammarlund, till 1999, when he was succeeded by the Canadian Adham Sharara. He has been inducted in the ITTF Hall of Fame in 2010. Other significance On the eve of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Xu's advice for playing ping pong was viewed as informative also in the context of commerce, and as endorsed by People's Daily, it was promoted as relevant inspir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1953 Births Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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