Adolf Šlár (14 February 1919 – 7 April 1987) was a male
Czech
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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.
Table tennis career
He won nine medals at 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 ...
from 1935 to 1954. This included two
gold medals at the
1947 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1947 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Paris from February 25 to March 7, 1947.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External linksITTF Museum
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in the team event and in the men's doubles with
Václav Tereba
Václav Tereba (21 August 1918 – 22 February 1990), was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player.
He won twenty World Table Tennis Championship medals including four gold medals as part of the Czechoslovakia men's team event.
In ad ...
respectively.
He also won an
English Open
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title.
Personal life
He was a Ministry of Foreign Trade official in
Prague
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.
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
Czech male table tennis players
1919 births
1987 deaths
Sportspeople from Prague
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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