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Johnny Leach
John Alfred Leach MBE (20 November 1922 – 5 June 2014) was a British table tennis player, coach, and author. He began competing at a relatively old age, 17, before serving in World War II. During the war, he greatly elevated his game and, in 1946, achieved a world ranking. In 1949, Leach became Great Britain's second World Champion singles player. After winning the title, he achieved widespread fame within the United Kingdom, appearing on television and writing for ''News of the World''. Two years later, Leach added a second singles title. In 1953, he was part of the team that won Great Britain's first, and as of 2014 only, team World Championship. He also won 13 bronze and silver World championship medals between 1947 and 1955. As of 2014, Leach is just one of 11 players from any country to win two singles championships. After Leach retired in 1965, he remained active in the sport. He was England's national coach for eight years and served as president of the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagenham
Dagenham () is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Dagenham is centred east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the River Thames in the south. Dagenham remained mostly undeveloped until 1921, when the London County Council began construction of the large Becontree housing estate. The population significantly increased as people moved to the new housing in the early 20th century, with the parish of Dagenham becoming Dagenham Urban District in 1926 and the Municipal Borough of Dagenham in 1938. In 1965 Dagenham became part of Greater London when most of the historic parish become part of the London Borough of Barking. Dagenham was chosen as a location for industrial activity and is perhaps most famous for being the location of the Ford Dagenham motor car plant where the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 took place. Follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bergmann
Richard Bergmann (10 April 1919 – 5 April 1970) was an Austrian and British international table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total. He is considered to be one of the greatest players in history, only Viktor Barna has won more World Championship gold medals in singles. Table tennis career His 22 World Championship medals include seven gold medals; two in the men's team, one in the men's doubles at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships The 1936 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from March 12 to March 18, 1936. The championships were criticised for the bad management and poor tables. The Lucerna Palace arena (a 4,000-seat, underground concert hall) conditions ... with Viktor Barna and four times in the singles at the 1937, 1939, 1948 and 1950. Legacy Bergmann was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1982, and into the Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont British News
The Gaumont Film Company (, ), often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (founded in 1912). Gaumont predominantly produces, co-produces, and distributes films, and in 2011, 95% of Gaumont's consolidated revenues came from the film division. The company is increasingly becoming a TV series producer with its American subsidiary Gaumont International Television as well as its existing French production features. Gaumont is run by Nicolas Seydoux (President), Sidonie Dumas (General Director), and Christophe Riandee (Deputy General Director). History Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Franks
Margaret 'Peggy' Franks (born c.1925) is a former table tennis player from England. Table tennis career From 1947 to 1952 she won ten medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. The ten medals included three gold medals; two in team events with England at the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships and 1948 World Table Tennis Championships and one in the women's doubles with Vera Thomas in 1948. She also won an English Open title. Personal life She married Kent and Essex county player Ronnie Hook on 12 January 1950. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships The tables below are the English representatives for the men's and women's teams during the World Table Tennis Championships also known as the Swaythling Cup and Corbillon Cup. M ... Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Soos
Ferenc Soos is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career He won twelve medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships in 1936 to 1950. The twelve World Championship medals included four gold medals; two in the team event, one in the mixed doubles at the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships with Gizi Farkas and one in the men's doubles at the 1950 World Table Tennis Championships with Ferenc Sidó. See also * List of table tennis players * 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 Hungarian male table tennis players 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Miles
Richard Theodore Miles (June 12, 1925 – October 12, 2010) was an American table tennis player who won 10 national championships between 1945 and 1962, more than any other player. After his playing career ended, Miles wrote an instructional guide and continued in his sport by playing match games and doing trick shot performances. In its obituary ''The New York Times'' called him "perhaps the greatest table tennis player the United States has ever produced". Early life Miles was born on June 12, 1925, in Manhattan and was raised Jewish by his mother on the Upper West Side after his father left the family when Miles was two years old. Boggan, TimDICK MILES--PART I USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame, 1999. Accessed October 27, 2010. Table tennis career He started playing table tennis as a child after receiving a miniature table tennis set as a birthday gift around the time he was 10 and started playing on full-sized tables at PS 166. By the time he was a teenager he was devoting half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Sidó
Ferenc Sidó (18 April 1923 in Pata – 6 February 1998 in Budapest) was an ethnic Hungarian international table tennis player from Slovakia. Table tennis career From 1947 to 1961 he won 26 medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships The 26 medals included nine gold medals; one in the men's singles, two in the men's doubles with József Kóczián and Ferenc Soos, two in the men's team event and four in the mixed doubles with Gizi Farkas and Angelica Rozeanu. He also won four English Open titles. See also * List of table tennis players * 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 Czechoslovak male table tennis players 1923 births 1998 deaths {{Hungary-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The 1949 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Stockholm from February 4 to February 10, 1949. Medalists Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships Table tennis competitions in Sweden World Table Tennis Championships, 1949 International sports competitions in Stockholm 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 men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Amouretti
Guy Amouretti (1925-2011), was a male French international table tennis player. He won a bronze medal at the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event and the following year won a silver medal and another bronze at the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event and men's singles respectively. In 1952 he won a bronze at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's singles and the following year collected his fifth world championship medal after winning a bronze at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event. He was seven times champion of France in the singles, in 1944, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1959. He died in 2011. See also * List of table tennis players * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Wembley from February 4 to February 11, 1948. Medalists Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships Table tennis competitions in the United Kingdom International sports competitions in London 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 men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Slar
Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in various Central European and East European countries with non-Germanic languages, such as Lithuanian Adolfas and Latvian Ādolfs. Adolphus can also appear as a surname, as in John Adolphus, the English historian. The female forms Adolphine and Adolpha are far more rare than the male names. The name is a compound derived from the Old High German ''Athalwolf'' (or ''Hadulf''), a composition of ''athal'', or ''adal'', meaning "noble" (or '' had(u)''-, meaning "battle, combat"), and ''wolf''. The name is cognate to the Anglo-Saxon name '' Æthelwulf'' (also Eadulf or Eadwulf). The name can also be derived from the ancient Germanic elements "Wald" meaning "power", "brightness" and wolf (Waldwulf). Due to negative associations with Adolf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohumil Váňa
Bohumil Váňa (17 January 1920 in Prague – 4 November 1989 in Prague) was a male international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia. Table tennis career From 1935 to 1955 he won an incredible 30 medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. This included 13 gold medals. He also won five English Open titles. See also * List of table tennis players * 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 1920 births 1989 deaths Czech male table tennis players Czechoslovak table tennis players Sportspeople from Prague {{CzechRepublic-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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