Dragutin Šurbek (8 August 1946 – 15 July 2018) was a
Croatian and
Yugoslav 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 coach.
Career
Šurbek won two World Championship titles in the men's doubles event. He won gold medals in 1979 (with
Antun Stipančić) and in 1983 (with
Zoran Kalinić). In the men's singles event, he won the bronze medal three times (in 1971, 1973 and 1981).
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
External links
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Dragutin Surbek, the Lion of Zagreb, passes away
1946 births
2018 deaths
Croatian male table tennis players
Croatian table tennis coaches
Olympic table tennis players of Croatia
Sportspeople from Zagreb
Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Yugoslav table tennis players
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
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