PingPong Showcase: Zoran Primorac

August 15, 2008 • 12:30 pm • POSTED BY adamrgarcia

Zoran Primorac Zoran was born in the Croation city of Zadar, and began playing table tennis at a club there as a youth. His next major accomplishment was in 1987, when at the age of 18, he won silver in the World Championship in New Delhi. The following year he took silver in the Olympics. In the 1992 Summer Olympics, Primorac took 9th place in men’s doubles and singles, and did the same in the ’96 Olympics. In the 2002 World Championship, he reached the semi-finals only to be defeated by his former teammate, Jean-Michel Saive, of Belgium (next week’s Showcase!). Zoran uses a specially designed blade, made by Butterfly Table Tennis. It’s called the “Primorac Carbon.” Zoran Primorac plans on retiring after this year’s Olympic Games. Godspeed, Zoran. Godspeed.