Solomon Joseph Schiff (June 28, 1917 – February 26, 2012) was a Jewish-American
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 from New York.
He attended
Textile High School in New York City.
Table tennis career
Schiff was a six-time U.S. Open Men's Doubles champion, and nine-time U.S. Mixed Doubles champion.
In 1936, he won the U.S. Men's Singles title.
From 1937 to 1947, he won four medals in doubles and team events in the
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 m ...
. The four World Championship medals included two
gold medals; one in the doubles with
Jimmy McClure at the
1938 World Table Tennis Championships and one in the team event at the
1937 World Table Tennis Championships.
He also won an
English Open
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title.
He was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame.
He was also inducted into the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere arou ...
.
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
1917 births
2012 deaths
American male table tennis players
Sportspeople from Manhattan
Jewish table tennis players
Jewish American sportspeople
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
21st-century American Jews
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