Dexter St. Louis

Dexter St. Louis
Nationality  Trinidad and Tobago
Born (1968-03-21) 21 March 1968
Highest ranking 342 (January 2013)[1]
Club S.A.G.CESTAS (France)
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)

Dexter St. Louis (born March 21, 1968) is a Trinidadian table tennis player.[2] As of January 2013, he is 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.[3] He lost the first preliminary round match to Canada's Zhang Peng, with a unanimous set score of 0–4.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "ITTF World Ranking". ITTF. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  2. "Dexter St. Louis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  3. "Dexter St Louis on Stage in Santo Domingo for One Night Only". ITTF. 31 March 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  4. "Men's Singles Preliminary Round". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 12 January 2013.


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