Nationality Portuguese Height 1.82 m Weight 75 kg | Name Marcos Freitas Club AS Pontoise-Cergy TT Role Player Highest ranking 8 | |
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Full name Marcos Andre Sousa da Silva Freitas Born 8 April 1988 (age 36)
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal ( 1988-04-08 ) Playing style | ||
Current ranking 8 (December 2015) | ||
Marcos freitas the new european hero
Marcos André Sousa da Silva Freitas (born 8 April 1988) is a European Champion table tennis player from Portugal.
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- Marcos freitas the new european hero
- 2015 ettc ms final hd dimitrij ovtcharov ger vs marcos freitas por full match
- Honors
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He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where he got knocked out in the Round of 64. In the same year he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles at the European Championship with Tiago Apolónia. Three years later at the 2011 Table Tennis European Championships he went on to win the gold medal with his doubles partner Andrej Gaćina. In 2012 he took part on his second Olympics, reaching the Round of 32 in the singles and the quarterfinals in the team event with Tiago Apolónia and João Monteiro. In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for Portugal in table tennis, more specifically, Men's team with João Geraldo and Tiago Apolonia. He earned a gold medal. At the European Championships 2015 he won Silver in the Singles Event. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2016 Olympics in the individual event. Although he won his match, Portugal lost in the first round of the team event.
As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eleven player in the world.
Since 2012 Marcos Freitas lives in Schwechat and practices at the Werner Schlager Academy.
