Paul DRINKHALL elected head of ETTU Athletes Commission

September 23, 2018
10:16 am
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Paul DRINKHALL has appointed as the member of ETTU Athletes Commission. The 28-year-old England`s player has been chosen at the elections held in the Spanish city of Alicante during the LIEBHERR 2018 ITTF EuropeanChampionships.

“I am looking forward my new role. Europe has great potential. We have tounite all our resources and try to get better together. We have playerswho are very close to Asians like Liam who can challenge them and we need to work to make it happened” stated Paul DRIINKHALL after the elections.

Paul DRINKHALL has many table tennis achievements winning 2016 ITTF World Team Championships bronze medal with England`s National Team. At the Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne 2010 Delhi 2014 Glasgow and 2018 Gold Coast Australia he won several medals in mixed doubles doubles and withhis team. Currently he is playing in Germany for TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadtat the “1. Bundesliga”.

“I have a wide range of experiences and have battled through manydifferent challenges so I feel prepared to ensure that athlete views arerepresented strongly in the shaping of table tennis in Europe and acrossthe globe. I am keen to see it progress and have some strong views but I am open to ideas and input from across the players spectrum” emphasized Paul DRINKHALL .

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