Václav Tereba (21 August 1918 – 22 February 1990), was a Czechoslovak international

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player. He won twenty World Table Tennis Championship medals including four

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s as part of the Czechoslovakia men's team event. In addition he won four

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s, three in the men's team event and one in the mixed doubles with

Marie Kettnerová Marie Kettnerová (born in Prague on 4 April 1911; died in London on 28 February 1998) was a female Czech international table tennis player. Table tennis career She won an incredible 23 World Table Tennis Championships medals from 1933 to 195 ...

and twelve

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s, three in the men's team, one in the men's singles, one in the mixed doubles and six in the men's doubles with four different partners, Adolf Slar, Stanislav Kolář, Josef Turnovsky and Ludvik Vyhnanovsky. Other achievements included victory in the open English Championships in 1947. He died in 1990 and his son is

Stanislav Tereba Stanislav Tereba (2 January 1938 – 17 January 2023) was a Czech photojournalist. Life Tereba was born in Prague on 2 January 1938.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 ...

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 1918 births 1990 deaths World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{CzechRepublic-tabletennis-bio-stub