Adolf Herskovic (later Allan Herskovic; 1916–2011) was a male Yugoslav international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player.

Table tennis career

He won a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

at the

1939 World Table Tennis Championships The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939. Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing. Viktor Barna a ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with

Žarko Dolinar Žarko Dolinar (3 July 1920 – 9 March 2003), Ph.D., was a biologist and table tennis player who won eight medals at the World Table Tennis Championships. He was born in a family of Slovene economic immigrants to Croatia. In 1939, at the age ...

, Ladislav Hexner,

Tibor Harangozo Tibor Harangozo ( hu, Harangozó Tibor, sr-cyr, Тибор Харангозо) was a male Yugoslav international table tennis player. Table tennis career He won a silver medal at the 1939 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup ( ...

and Max Marinko for Yugoslavia. He represented Italy from 1948 until 1950 before he changed his name to Allan from Adolf and emigrated to the United States where he captained the US team in 1974.

Personal life

He was of Jewish descent and lost his parents and a sister in concentration camps during the

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. He took refuge in Italy with some brothers but was arrested and interned in a camp in

Cosenza Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...

where he was freed by the allies in 1943. In the United States he was a member of the Jewish Athletic Club and played soccer and gymnastics.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Herskovic, Adolf Yugoslav table tennis players Italian male table tennis players American male table tennis players Yugoslav emigrants to the United States 1916 births 2011 deaths World Table Tennis Championships medalists Sportspeople from Zagreb

Table tennis career

Personal life

See also

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