POWELL David

Date of Birth: 8 Apr 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: BOX HILL, VIC

Birth Country:

Australia

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 AUS Australia	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3	Men's Singles Round 1 #12 CZE SIRUCEK PSIRUCEK Pavel 0 DNS AUS POWELL DPOWELL David 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Men's Singles Round 2 #28 SVK WANG YWANG Yang 4 AUS POWELL DPOWELL David 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Men's Team Round of 16 #5 JPN Japan 3 AUS Australia 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Prel. Rnd	1R

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Doubles X	Team
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	-	41
2015	Suzhou, CHN	1R	1R	2R	-
2014	Tokyo, JPN	-	-	-	41
2012	Dortmund, GER	-	-	-	35
2011	Rotterdam, NED	-	-	1R	-
2010	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	50

Year	Location	Singles
2017	Liege, BEL	Group Stage
2016	Saarbrucken, GER	Group Stage

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Doubles X	Team
2018	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	3	2	QF	1

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2019	Doubles M	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
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	Doubles	Australian Open	Geelong, VIC, AUS
Last 16	2017	Doubles	Australian Open	Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1/16 Final	2018	Singles	Australian Open	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
1/16 Final	2017	Singles	Australian Open	Brisbane, QLD, AUS

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

Powelly, LB (unisport.com.au, 08 Mar 2011; rio2016.olympics.com.au, 31 Mar 2016)

Occupation:

Education - Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

Languages spoken:

John Murphy [national], IRL

Right (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

He took up the sport at age eight at the Croydon and Districts Table Tennis Association in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. (tabletenniscoach.com.au, 27 Mar 2016)

His parents played table tennis and his mother took lessons from Mark Smythe, who later became his coach. (pbsmick.com, 14 Mar 2012; tabletenniscoach.com.au, 27 Mar 2016)

Coach Mark Smythe. (rio2016.olympics.com.au, 31 Mar 2016)

Philosophy:

"Don't get angry, just get better." (unisport.com.au, 08 Mar 2011)

General Interest

Grip
Shakehand (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

Style of play
Attack (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

General
OCCUPATION
He has worked as a mathematics teacher, and temporarily left his class at Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, when he competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "When they initially found out, they were a bit excited to have a teacher going to the Olympic Games." (sbs.com.au, 09 Jun 2016)

COACHING
He has been involved in ITTF-Oceania table tennis coaching projects in the Oceania region, including a 2013 visit to the remote Norfolk Island, 1412 kilometres from the east coast of Australia. (ittf.com, 2013)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
DNS:: Did not start

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