Antonín Maleček (1909 – 14 September 1964) was a Czechoslovak international
table tennis
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player.
He won three medals at the
World Table Tennis Championships
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in the team events. This culminated in a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
at the
1932 World Table Tennis Championships
The 6th World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from 25 to 30 January 1932.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External linksITTF Museum
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for Czechoslovakia.
He also won two
English Open
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titles.
He kept a scrapbook on the history of Czech table tennis and died in 1964.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
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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
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Czechoslovak male table tennis players
1909 births
1964 deaths
World Table Tennis Championships medalists