Miloslav Hamer (Hamr in some sources) (22 June 1913 - 4 February 2002) was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player who was world champion in mixed doubles and team table tennis.
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| Nickname | Milo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 June 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 February 2002 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editHe won eleven medals in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1933 to 1939.[1] In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová to win the gold medal in the Mixed Doubles 10th World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans Buddy Blattner and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game.[2][3][4] He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Table Tennis: World Championships: Mixed Doubles". Sports 123. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ "World Table Tennis Championships – Gold Medals" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Boggan, Tim (2000). "History of U.S. Table Tennis". USATT. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ^ "ITTF Database". Ittf.com. Retrieved July 19, 2011.