Dom Sportova - European table tennis championship

Between July 8th and 17th, Zagreb will be host to the best European table tennis players competing for medals in the junior and cadet categories during the 59th European Youth Table Tennis Championship at the Dom Sportova Sports Hall.

Between the 8^th and the 17^th of July, the Dom Sportova Sports Hall will be the venue for the European Youth Table Tennis Championship. Therefore, after 41 years, Zagreb will once again host this event and the best European table tennis players who will compete for medals.

The organiser of this competition is the Croatian Table Tennis Association, and it will take place with the financial backing of the City of Zagreb.

Table tennis was first introduced to Zagreb after the First World War, and the Table Tennis Association of Croatia was founded in 1939. In 1950, it became the Croatian Table Tennis Association as it is known today, and back then it brought together 77 table tennis sections with 1327 players. The first president of the association was the great table tennis player doctor Žarko Dolinar. By becoming the 1954 men’s doubles world champion along with Vilim Harangozo, he gave an additional boost to the development of table tennis in Croatia at the time.

Croatia has had world class players in the sport, including Dragutin Šurbek and Antun Tova Stipančić, winners of numerous medals in European and World championships between the 1960s and 1980s. Another Croatian table tennis legend is Zoran Primorac, who partook in seven Olympic Games, while our best known female table tennis player is Tamara Boroš.   She is one of the rare European players who managed to hold her own against Chinese opponents, the undisputed rulers of the female table tennis world.