Dimitrij Ovtcharov Hits 122kph Ball!

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Check out this latest video measuring the speed of the table tennis ball! Olympic bronze silver medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov hits the ball at a staggering 122kph! Can you hit faster? :)

 
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What's the average speed of a regular smash? It's hard to find this impressive when we don't really know how fast we usually hit the ball :p

122km/h is very fast. I don't know if there's a current record since I couldn't find it on the internet, but I think average players hit somewhere between 80 and 110.
 
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The official fastest smash was set by New Zealander Lark Brandt, see the article below, which contains a link to the original ITTF article from 2003 during the NZ Open/GJC.

http://www.jayandwanda.com/tt/speed.html


This is the only smash competition I've known to be acknowledged by a national & international source. Make your own ideas about this, but if they were the same as Dimitrij Ovtcharov's set up, then Ovtcharov is smashing harder.

Lark Brandt - 112.50km/ph
Dimitrij Ovtcharov - 122.00km/ph
 
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I can think of so many variables that make the comparison weak. But the best measurements usually come out at about 65-70mph as the very highest. So Dimitri's shot shot is about right for a pro.
Of course in a match players very rarely approach that speed as they are mostly driving and looping. The ball therefore curves through the air slowing the time between ball hitting racket then table. the straight smash will have a shorter time thus higher speed.
 
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Bump.

I just found this.. It appears that at every match of the Bundesliga, Borussia Düsseldorf lets one of the spectators measure the speed of his shots. There's also a list including top players:

BESTENLISTE PROFIS UND BORUSSIA MITARBEITER

PLATZVORNAMENAMEVEREINGESCHWINDIGKEITPROFI/MITARBEITER
1.BastianSteger1. FC Saarbrücken114 km/hProfi
1.DimitrijOvtcharovFakel Orenburg114 km/hProfi
3.KonstantinKindtBorussia Düsseldorf108 km/hMitarbeiter
4.DannyHeisterBorussia Düsseldorf101 km/hProfi
5.PatrickBaumBorussia Düsseldorf100 km/hProfi
6.MatthiasErnstBorussia Düsseldorf98 km/hMitarbeiter
6.ChristianSüßBorussia Düsseldorf98 km/hProfi
8.WladimirKlitschko--95 km/hBox-Weltmeister
9.JörgenPerssonHalmstad BTK92 km/hProfi
10.CarstenUntBorussia Düsseldorf91 km/hMitarbeiter
11.AlexSchillingBorussia Düsseldorf88 km/hMitarbeiter
12.DaniloEnzBorussia Düsseldorf87 km/hMitarbeiter
13.MarcelKesselBorussia Düsseldorf85 km/hMitarbeiter
14.JoPörschBorussia Düsseldorf82 km/hMitarbeiter
15.MaxBuckBorussia Düsseldorf81 km/hMitarbeiter
16.SebastianNatuschBorussia Düsseldorf72 km/hMitarbeiter
17.YvonneWendelerBorussia Düsseldorf66 km/hMitarbeiter
18.BirgitBreitkreutzBorussia Düsseldorf48 km/hMitarbeiter

Source: http://www.borussia-duesseldorf.com/deutsch/fans/contest.html
 
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