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.

Table tennis career

He won eleven medals 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 me ...

from 1933 to 1939. In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová to win the

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in the

Mixed Doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known ...

10th

in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans

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and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game. He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo.

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ITTF bio
1913 births 2002 deaths Czech male table tennis players Czechoslovak table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{CzechRepublic-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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