Patrick Baum (born 23 June 1987 in

Worms, Germany Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants . A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It wa ...

) is a male

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 ...

player from

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. He won the singles title at the 2005

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. Since 2008, he has won several medals in singles and team events in the

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, in the

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, and in the

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. In 2013, he defeated

Dimitrij Ovtcharov Dimitrij Ovtcharov (russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov ( uk, Дмитро Овчаров; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis cha ...

in the round of 16 in the

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but was defeated by eventual champion

Zhang Jike Zhang Jike (; born 16 February 1988) is a retired Chinese table tennis player. Zhang became the fourth male player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career Grand Slam when he won gold in men's singles at the Olympic games in London 20 ...

in the quarterfinals 4–1.

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1987 births Living people German male table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Germany People from Worms, Germany Sportspeople from Rhineland-Palatinate {{Germany-tabletennis-bio-stub

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