Max Marinko (1916–1975) was a Yugoslav and Czechoslovak 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

Marinko won a

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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 men's team event for Yugoslavia. After

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, he switched allegiance to Czechoslovakia and went on to win three more medals, two of which were

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, in the team event.

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Yugoslav table tennis players Czechoslovak male table tennis players Yugoslav emigrants to Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada Canadian male table tennis players Sportspeople from Ljubljana 1916 births 1975 deaths World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Canada-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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