Dexter St. Louis

Trinidadian table tennis player (1968–2019)
1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)Weight80 kg (176 lb)Highest ranking342 (January 2013)[1]ClubS.A.G.CESTAS (France)

Dexter Benedict St. Louis OLY[2] (21 March 1968 – 16 May 2019)[3] was a Trinidadian table tennis player.[4] In January 2013, he was ranked no. 342 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).[1]

St. Louis made his official debut for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he competed in the men's singles. He placed fourth in a group pool round against Brazil's Hugo Hoyama, Sweden's Jörgen Persson, and North Korea's Kim Song-Hui, with a total score of 82 points and a tally of 3 straight losses.

Twelve years after competing in his last Olympics, St. Louis qualified again for the men's singles, as a 40-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the Latin American Qualification Tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[5] He lost the first preliminary round match to Canada's Zhang Peng, with a unanimous set score of 0–4.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "ITTF World Ranking". ITTF. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  2. ^ Laurence, Kwame (November 30, 2020). "St Louis gets 'OLY'". Trinidad Express Newspapers. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  3. ^ Top ranked table tennis player Dexter St. Louis dies
  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dexter St. Louis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Dexter St Louis on Stage in Santo Domingo for One Night Only". ITTF. 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Men's Singles Preliminary Round". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.

External links

  • Dexter St. Louis at World Table Tennis
  • Dexter St. Louis at the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee at archive.today (archived April 16, 2013)
  • Dexter St. Louis at the NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived August 23, 2012)
  • Dexter St. Louis at ittfranking.com at the Wayback Machine (archived August 1, 2014)
  • Dexter St. Louis at Olympics.com