The top step of the podium in women’s singles 70 years for Elmira Antonyan-Brunner (Photo: Reto Bazzi) Swaythling Club International members, Hungary’s Zsolt-Georg Böhm and Elmira Antonyan-Brunner were very much players in form on Saturday 21st June, the closing day of play at the 2025 European Veteran Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia. Zsolt-Georg Böhm won men’s singles over 60 years accounting for Denmark’s Carsten Egeholt (13-11, 11-6, 10-12, 5-11, 11-9) in the final. Meanwhile, Elmira Antonyan-Brunner struck gold in women’s singles over 70 years overcoming Ekaterina Krasnova, an independent athlete in the title decider (11-9, 11-9, 11-6). Additionally in the counterpart women’s doubles event partnering Germany’s Petra Rubin, it was bronze for Elmira Antonyan-Brunner, the pair experienced a semi-final defeat at the hands of

Swaythling Club Executive Committee members present in Novi Sad (left to right) Lilamani de Soysa, Reto Bazzi, Claude Bergeret, Zdenko Kriz and Gloria Wagener (Photo: Reto Bazzi) The Annual General Meeting of the Swaythling Club International took place on Saturday 21st June at the 2025 European Veteran Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia. Claude Bergeret was returned unopposed as President, a situation that also applied to Reto Bazzi (Deputy President), Jordi Serra (Secretary) and Richard Scruton (Treasurer). Lilamani de Soysa, Gloria Wagener and Zdenko Kriz were elected committee members. All propositions were accepted, including an alteration of the Constitution to increase the members of the Executive Committee from seven to nine as and from 2027. A total 23 members, 11 on-line and 12 physically present attended. All

Elmira Antonyan-Brunner (right) in Women's Singles Over 70 Years, through to the semi-finals (Photo: Reto Bazzi) Invited by the organising committee as members of the Swaythling Club International, Switzerland’s Elmira Antonyan-Brunner and Hungary’s Zsolt-Georg Böhm are both guaranteed medals at the 2025 European Veteran Championships in Novi Sad following their efforts on Friday 20th June. Alas for the third member of the group, Thierry Miller, also from Switzerland, it was the end of the road, competing in the Over 55 Years category, it was defeat in both the men’s singles and with Denmark’s Henrik Vendelbo in the men’s doubles. In the former Sweden’s Lars Mattsson ended progress (11-7, 11-8, 11-6), in the latter the combination of Germany’s Piotr Frackowak and Finland’s Jorma Lahtinen

Claude Bergeret, President of the Swaythling Club International, accompanied by Executive Committee members, Gloria Wagener, Reto Bazzi, and Zdenko Kriz met members of the 2026 World Masters Championships organising committee at the European Veteran Championships in Novi Sad on Thursday 19th June. The splendid venue in Novi Sad

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Tom Jarvis receives the Richard Bergmann Fair Play Award from Clare Briegal, Chair of Table Tennis England Presented by the Swaythling Club International, on the concluding day of play, Sunday 25th May, at the ITTF World Championships in Doha, England’s Tom Jarvis received the Richard Bergmann Fair Award. Jarvis was nominated for the award as a result of his sportsmanship shown against China’s Liang Jingkun in the last 16 of the men’s singles. He agreed to a let when Liang Jiangkun believed the ball was wet after the English player had served. The award was collected in Doha by Clare Briegal, Chair of Table Tennis England. Later, alongside a framed photograph, she presented the award to Jarvis at a recent Table Tennis England staff