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1936 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1936 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from March 12 to March 18, 1936. The championships were criticised for the bad management and poor tables. The Lucerna Palace arena (a 4,000-seat, underground concert hall) conditions were also described as chaos. Medalists Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men ... Table tennis in Czechoslovakia International sports competitions hosted by Czechoslovakia March 1936 sports events Sports competitions in Prague 1930s in Prague ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 World Table Tennis Championships ...
The 1935 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington in London with the finals at the Wembley Sports Arena, from February 8 to February 16, 1935. The championships attracted 19 countries and the finals attendance was in excess of 8,000. Medalists Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships Table tennis competitions in the United Kingdom World Table Tennis Championships International sports competitions in London World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Hanec Pivec
František Hanec Pivec was a male Czech international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the team event and another bronze in 1937 World Table Tennis Championships doubles with Miloslav Hamr. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References Czech male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{CzechRepublic-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimcha Finkelstein
Shimcha Finkelstein (1917–1987), was a male Polish and Israeli international table tennis player. Table tennis career He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Samuel Schieff for Poland. He was Polish team champion for Hasmonea Warsaw and singles champion in 1937. He was of Jewish origin and before the war switched allegiance to Israel and won the first ever Israeli championship beating Mordecai Finberg in the final. Personal life He left Poland in May 1937 via Romania to Palestine. He retired in 1967, had three children and died in 1987. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Schieff
Samuel Schieff is a male former Polish and Israeli international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Shimcha Finkelstein for Poland. He was ranked Polish number one in the mid-1930s. He was of Jewish origin and following the war represented Israel, alongside his former teammate Finkelstein in the World Championships. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References Polish male table tennis players Israeli table tennis players 20th-century Polish Jews World Table Tennis Championships medalists Place of birth missing (living people) {{Poland-table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alojzy Ehrlich
Alojzy "Alex" Ehrlich (1914 – 7 December 1992), also called "King of the Chiselers," was a Polish table tennis player, widely regarded as one of the best players in Polish history of this sport, who three times won silver in the World Table Tennis Championships, World Championships. Ehrlich was ranked world No. 6 in 1938 by Hon. Ivor Montagu and world No. 9 in 1950. He was a very popular athlete in interbellum Poland; in 1934 Ehrlich was placed on the 8th position in the prestigious list of 10 most popular sportsmen of Poland, made by readers of the national sports daily '' Przeglad Sportowy''. In 1936 in Prague, he lost to Stanislav Kolar from Czechoslovakia. In 1937 in Baden, he lost to Austrian player Richard Bergmann, and two years later in Cairo, he lost to Bergmann again. In the early 1930s, Ehrlich, who spoke eight languages,Tim Boggan (2003History of U.S. Table Tennis Vol II/ref> moved to France, but remained loyal to Poland and represented his native land in su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibor Házi
Tibor Házi born Tibor Hoffmann, (February 9, 1912 – February 18, 1999), was a male international table tennis player from Hungary. Sports career He won nine medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships from the 1932 World Table Tennis Championships to 1938 World Table Tennis Championships. The nine medals included three team gold medals. After settling in the United States he continued to play for thirty years. Personal life He was born as Tibor Hoffmann in 1912 but as Hungarian society became anti-Semitic he changed his name to Házi. He married her fellow international player Magda Gál in 1937 and in 1939 they fled to the United States because of their Jewish origins and they settled in Bethesda, Maryland. Gál died in 1990 aged 83 and Házi died in 1999. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Kelen
Stephen Estaban Kelen OAM ( Hungarian: ''Kelen István''; 21 March 1912 – 1 May 2003) was a Hungarian-Australian sportsman, journalist, author, and playwright. He won seven gold medals at the World Table Tennis Championships in the 1920s and 1930s. After moving to Australia in 1939 he had a long writing career in English. Early life Kelen was born in Budapest in 1912. He studied philosophy at the Charles University in Prague, and later obtained a diploma from the British Association of Industrial Editors. He wrote professionally from the age of 17 and became fluent in Hungarian, Czech and English. Table tennis career Between 1929 and 1936, Kelen won 15 medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. This included seven gold medals: five in the team event and two in the mixed doubles with Anna Sipos at the 1929 World Table Tennis Championships and Mária Mednyánszky at the 1933 World Table Tennis Championships. In the 1930s, Kelen was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laszlo Bellak
Laszlo Bellak (February 12, 1911 – September 20, 2006) was a Hungarian and American table tennis player. Table tennis career He represented Hungary 59 times in international competition. He won 21 medals at the World Championships, seven of which were gold. This included six wins as a member of the Hungarian National Team that won the Swaythling Cup in 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, and 1938. Bellak moved to the United States at the start of World War II, and enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in India and Burma. He was decorated three times, and was honorably discharged with the Victory Medal, attaining the rank of Sergeant. He won the U.S. Men’s Singles title in 1938, the U.S. Men’s Doubles in 1937, 1939, and 1943, and the U.S. Mixed Doubles in 1941. He also won three English Open titles. Halls of Fame Bellak was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980 and the International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993. Bellak, who was Jewish, was induc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklós Szabados
Miklós Szabados (7 March 1912 – 12 February 1962) was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion. Table tennis career Szabados was born in Budapest, Hungary on 7 March 1912. He first started playing table tennis when he was thirteen, and defeated Victor Barna in a tournament in 1927. From 1928 to 1935, Szabados won the world doubles title six times (1929–32 and 1934–35). He won mixed doubles three times (1930, 1931, and 1934), and was a member of the Swaythling Cup team five times (1929–31, 1934, and 1935). He won four world events in 1931: singles, doubles, mixed doubles, and the Swaythling Cup. As his mother had been born Jewish, Szabados left his studies at the University of Berlin in 1933 and fled to Paris. He moved to Britain in 1936. He won five English Open titles. Szabados toured the Far East, South America, and Australia on an exhibition tour with István Kelen starting in 1937. At the Australian championships in Sydney, they won the doubles tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Barna
Viktor Győző Barna (Braun) (24 August 1911 – 27 February 1972) was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player as well as a record five times singles World Champion. He won 41 World Championship medals and also won 20 English Open titles. Personal life Barna's birth name was Győző Braun, but, because of anti-Semitism in Hungary at the time, he changed his name to a Hungarian-sounding name. In September 1939, during the outbreak of the Second World War, he and his wife were in America. Barna returned to Europe, in order to fight against the Nazis. He joined the British army as a parachutist, and fought in Yugoslavia. After the British withdrew from Yugoslavia, Barna remained in England. After the war he settled with his wife in London. He became a British national in 1952. Later he became a representative for the Dunlop Sports Company and continued traveling the world in this capacity. It was during one of these tours in 1972 that he succumbed to a heart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wolschoefer
Paul Wolschoefer is a male former French international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Raoul Bedoc, Michel Haguenauer, Charles Dubouillé and Daniel Guérin for France. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References French male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{France-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Guérin (table Tennis)
Daniel Guérin was a male French international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's doubles with Raoul Bedoc. He won another bronze at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event. His brother Jean-Claude Guérin was also a table tennis player and their father Dr Charles Guérin was a notable tennis table official and early French champion in fencing. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Results of individual events The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed). Men's singles Medal table Women's singles The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ... References French male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists 20th-century French people {{France-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |