WTT Contender Lima 08/03 19:00 5 Joao Geraldo v Dimitrij Ovtcharov L 3-1
European Games Team 07/01 17:45 - Anton Kallberg v Dimitrij Ovtcharov W 0-3
European Games Team 06/30 18:00 - Tiago Apolonia v Dimitrij Ovtcharov W 0-3
European Games Team 06/29 18:00 - Adrien Rassenfosse v Dimitrij Ovtcharov W 0-3
European Games 06/25 16:40 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Eduard Ionescu L 2-4
WTT Contender Lagos 06/18 15:05 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Qihao Zhou L 1-4
WTT Contender Lagos 06/17 15:35 - Harmeet Desai v Dimitrij Ovtcharov W 0-3
WTT Contender Lagos 06/17 09:35 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Chih Yuan Chuang W 3-0
WTT Contender Lagos 06/16 15:05 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Yanning Liang W 3-1
WTT Contender Lagos 06/15 15:10 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Gyuhyeon Park W 3-0
ITTF World Championships 05/24 17:00 5 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Tomislav Pucar L 3-4
ITTF World Championships 05/22 17:40 6 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Niagol Stoyanov W 4-1
ITTF World Championships 05/20 11:30 57 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Can Akkuzu W 4-3
TT Cup 05/06 14:20 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Truls Moregard W 3-1
TT Cup 05/06 12:20 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Benedikt Duda W 3-1
TT Cup 05/06 11:00 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Tiago Apolonia W 3-0
WTT Star Contender Bangkok 04/27 14:10 4 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Kristian Karlsson L 1-3
WTT Star Contender Bangkok 04/26 14:40 5 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Yuta Tanaka W 3-2
WTT Champions Macao 04/20 11:00 4 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Hugo Calderano L 1-3
WTT Champions Macao 04/18 07:30 5 Jonghoon Lim v Dimitrij Ovtcharov W 2-3
WTT Singapore Smash 03/11 12:25 6 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Shunsuke Togami L 2-3
ETTU Top 16 Cup 02/26 11:20 2 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Darko Jorgic L 2-4
ETTU Top 16 Cup 02/25 18:25 3 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Andrej Gacina W 4-1
ETTU Top 16 Cup 02/25 11:00 4 Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Robert Gardos W 4-1
Champions League 02/19 13:20 - Dang Qiu v Dimitrij Ovtcharov L 3-1
Champions League 02/19 12:00 - Anton Kallberg v Dimitrij Ovtcharov L 3-2
Champions League 02/15 20:25 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Dang Qiu W 3-1
Champions League 02/15 18:20 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Anton Kallberg L 0-3
WTT Contender Amman 02/12 11:20 1 Shidong Lin v Dimitrij Ovtcharov L 4-0
WTT Contender Amman 02/11 16:00 2 Alvaro Robles v Dimitrij Ovtcharov W 1-3

Wikipedia - Dimitrij Ovtcharov

Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Овчаров; 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 born.

Since 2008, Ovtcharov has won a total of two silver and four bronze medals at the Olympics, making him the most decorated male Olympian in the table tennis category in terms of the number of medals awarded. Ranked first January to February 2018, he is ranked ninth in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) as of November 2022.

History

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ovtcharov won the silver medal as part of the German men's team, together with Timo Boll and Christian Süß.

He used a special technique in his serves, which was later picked by Time magazine as one of the top 50 innovations of 2008.

On 22 September 2010, Ovtcharov had been suspended by the German Table Tennis Federation (DTTB) due to a positive A-sample test for Clenbuterol that may be used as a performance-enhancing substance. Ovtcharov himself denied the doping accusation and requested a B-sample analysis which still tested positive. After hearings and further investigations, the hair sample voluntarily offered by Ovtcharov showed no evidence of clenbuterol and its abuse. DTTB later unanimously decided to cancel the suspension on 15 October 2010. The decision was endorsed by ITTF.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Ovtcharov won bronze medals in singles and team events. In June 2015, he won a gold medal at the inaugural European Games. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he was defeated by Vladimir Samsonov in the singles quarter-final. He then won a team bronze medal. In June 2017, he won the title at the China Open against Timo Boll (4 sets to 3), and in August 2017 he won the title at the Bulgaria Open. In January 2018, Ovtcharov became the World's Number 1 Table Tennis Player.

2021

In March, Ovtcharov played in WTT Doha. He won the WTT Contender event and reached the semi-finals of the WTT Star Contender event. Notably, Ovtcharov made several key tactical adjustments to upset Lin Yun-Ju in the finals after losing to Lin in their previous four encounters.

As a result of his performance in Doha, Ovtcharov rejoined the top ten in the world rankings.

In June, Ovtcharov played in the European Table Tennis Championships, reaching the finals before losing to his German national teammate Timo Boll.

In July, two weeks before the Tokyo Olympics Ovtcharov withdrew from an internal German Olympic Scrimmage due to a leg injury.

Ovtcharov won bronze at the Tokyo Olympics in the men's singles event. Ovtcharov reached the finals of the men's team event, earning his record sixth Olympic medal.