Jörg Roßkopf

Jörg Roßkopf is a German table tennis legend and current national coach who won the 1989 World Championship doubles title and two Olympic medals across a two-decade playing career.

Jörg Roßkopf's finest individual moment came at the 1998 World Cup in Shantou, where he defeated the circuit's best to claim the singles title — though he had already spent a decade as one of Germany's most decorated competitors, with a World Championship doubles gold in Dortmund in 1989 and an Olympic singles bronze at Atlanta in 1996 already banked. He rose to international prominence in 1989, winning the men's doubles title at the World Championships in Dortmund alongside partner Steffen Fetzner, a partnership that also brought Olympic silver in doubles at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Roßkopf reached the peak of his individual career in 1992, becoming European singles champion and rising to World No. 2, before capturing his greatest individual honour at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, winning bronze in singles. He went on to win the World Cup singles title in 1998 in Shantou, China, and added a European doubles title that year partnering Belarusian star Vladimir Samsonov. Roßkopf became one of only seven table tennis players to compete at the first five Olympic Games to feature the sport, from 1988 to 2004, and won 16 German national championships across singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, along with nine Champions League and seven Bundesliga titles at club level with Borussia Düsseldorf. He retired from competition in 2010 and became Germany's men's national team coach, continuing to shape the sport in the country he once led as its finest player for two decades.

Left-handed, powerful topspin player renowned for aggressive attacking play from mid-distance

Germany's principal table tennis player for two decades, and a respected national coach in the years since his retirement

• World Champion, men's doubles (1989)
• 2x Olympic medallist (1992 doubles silver, 1996 singles bronze)
• European Champion, men's singles (1992) and doubles (1998)
• World Cup singles champion (1998)
• Competed at the first five Olympic Games to feature table tennis