Władysław Loewenhertz was a male former

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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 and Australian national and state table tennis champion . He won a

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at the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with

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 Tabl ...

and

Simon Pohoryles Simon Pohoryles is a male former Polish international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Władysław Loewenhertz for Poland. ...

for Poland. Along with his teammates they were the first Polish medal winner at the Championships. He played for the local Jewish sports club

Hasmonea Lwów Hasmonea Lwów was a Polish-Jewish sports club based in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). Created in 1908 in Austria-Hungary, it was the first sports club exclusively for Jewish members. It was named after the Hasmonean royal dynasty. The ful ...

. Just prior to the onset of World War II, he departed Poland for a new life in Australia where he adopted the name of Walter Lowen. His table tennis achievements in Australia included winning: the 1948 Australian open singles championship, the 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950 Victorian Open single championship and, late in his life inductions into: Table Tennis Victoria's hall of fame (open division) in 2015 and as the Macabi Victoria's hall of fame in 2000.

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Polish male table tennis players Jewish table tennis players 20th-century Polish Jews World Table Tennis Championships medalists 1916 births 2011 deaths Place of birth missing {{Poland-tabletennis-bio-stub

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