Bojan Tokić (born 13 January 1981) is a Slovenian

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player.

Career

Tokić's first competition was in

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, where he won the

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. Via

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, Italy and

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, Slovenia he transferred to SV Plüderhausen, Germany in the 2000–01 season. He then went back to Slovenia to work within a training group, with which he stayed for three years. In 2003, he returned to Germany to play for TTC Frickenhausen. In 2005–06, he won the

, the DTTB Cup and the German League with the TTC Frickenhausen. In the 2007 European Championships he reached the quarter-finals in the men's singles competition. Tokić has participated at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

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, where he lost in the third round to the eventual champion Ma Lin. At the

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, he lost in the third round against

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. In 2010, Tokić attended the 2010 Slovenian Open international table tennis tournament. In October 2011, he won a bronze medal in both the singles and doubles competitions of the 2011 European Championships. At the

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, he again lost in the third round, this time to

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of Singapore. At the

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, he lost in the fourth round against

Dimitrij Ovtcharov Dimitrij Ovtcharov () or Dmytro Ovtcharov (; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was ...

. Tokić took the 1–0 lead after playing the longest table tennis game in history of the Olympics, scoring 64 points total which means he won 33 to 31. He eventually lost the game 4–1.

Achievements

* Singles Bronze medal

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* Doubles Bronze medal 2009 and 2011 European Championships ITTF Statistics (Retrieved 28 October 2011).

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* ** ** ** * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tokic, Bojan 1981 births Living people Slovenian male table tennis players Panathinaikos table tennis players Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Slovenia Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Slovenia Mediterranean Games medalists in table tennis Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Olympic table tennis players for Slovenia Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics European Games competitors for Slovenia Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Slovenian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent People from Jajce Sportspeople from Central Bosnia Canton