11 persons never missed

13 players have participated in all five PingPongParkinson’s World Championships so far, and eleven of them have also entered for the sixth one in Lignano. Should all of them actually compete there, only small changes will be at the top of the eternal list of participants. These are the eleven permanent starters: Margie Alley, Nenad Bach, Hamid Ezzat-Ahmadi and Ilya Rozenblat (all USA), Erik Astrand and Maria Wäneskog (both Sweden), Thorsten Boomhuis and Harry Wissler (both Germany), Damasio Caeiro (Portugal), Jesper Jerslund (Denmark) and Martin Zagar (Croatia). Roberto Ribeiro Morand (Brazil) and Holger Teppe (Germany) will be missing for the first time.