PUCAR Tomislav

Date of Birth: 26 Jan 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: PULA

Birth Country:

Croatia

Place of residence : ZAGREB

Residence Country:

Croatia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Table Tennis	Men's Singles	33
	Men's Team CRO Croatia	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3	Men's Singles Round 2 #26 CRO PUCAR TPUCAR Tomislav 0 SLO TOKIC BTOKIC Bojan 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 4	Men's Team Round of 16 #7 TPE Chinese Taipei 3 CRO Croatia 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team X
2014	Nanjing, CHN	9	5

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Doubles X	Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	4R	-	-	-
2018	Halmstad, SWE	-	-	-	9
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	1R	1R	-	-
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	-	9
2015	Suzhou, CHN	-	-	2R	-

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Weihai, CHN	Group Stage

European Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2019	Minsk, BLR	3	QF

European Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Team
2021	Warsaw, POL	3R	QF	-
2019	Nantes, FRA	-	-	Group Stage
2018	Alicante, ESP	1R	-	-
2017	Luxembourg, LUX	-	-	6
2016	Budapest, HUN	1R	1R	-

WTT Star Contender

Year	Location	Singles
2021	Doha, QAT	1R

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2019	Singles	-	-	-	-	1x	2x	-
2018	Singles	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2017	Singles	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	Doubles M	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
Last 16	2019	Singles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
Last 16	2017	Singles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
Last 16	2017	Doubles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
1/16 Final	2019	Singles	Hong Kong Open	Hong Kong, CHN
1/16 Final	2019	Singles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1/16 Final	2018	Singles	Czech Open	Olomouc, CZE

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 4R - 4th Round, 3R - 3rd Round, 2R - 2nd Round, 1R - 1st Round, Prel. Rnd - Preliminary Round, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Supporting English football club Chelsea, watching television and films. (germanijak.hr, 28 Apr 2019; 24sata.hr, 24 Apr 2019)

Occupation:

Sport Studies - University of Zagreb, Croatia

Languages spoken:

Croatian, English

TTSC UMMC [Russian Federation]

Neven Karkovic [national], CRO

Right (kolping-frac-jaroslaw.pl, 01 Jun 2017)

He began playing table tennis at age six in Pula, Croatia. (srednja.hr, 17 Jun 2013)

He was introduced to the sport by his father, who used to play table tennis as a hobby. "At the beginning he was also my coach." (24sata.hr, 24 Apr 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (01portal.hr, 26 Jun 2019)

Reaching the round of 16 at the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (germanijak.hr, 28 Apr 2019)

Chinese table tennis player Ma Long, Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. (srednja.hr, 17 Jun 2013)

Philosophy:

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow." (Instagram profile, 11 Jun 2017)

General Interest

Grip
Shakehand (tabletennis.guide, 2016)

Style of play
Attack (kolping-frac-jaroslaw.pl, 01 Jun 2017)

General
FROM PULA TO ZAGREB
He and his family relocated from Pula to Zagreb in Croatia when Pucar was age 14. "There were better training conditions and better coaches. You know my whole family moved to Zagreb, it was a huge step and I am very grateful for this." (24sata.hr, 24 Apr 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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