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Max Marinko (also known as Maks; 16 September 1916 – 20 August 1975) was a Yugoslav-Czechoslovak international
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player.


Table tennis career

Marinko won a
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at the
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in the men's team event for Yugoslavia. After
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, he switched allegiance to Czechoslovakia and went on to win three more medals, two of which were
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, in the team event.


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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References

Yugoslav table tennis players Czechoslovak male table tennis players Yugoslav emigrants to Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada Canadian male table tennis players Sportspeople from Ljubljana 1916 births 1975 deaths World Table Tennis Championships medalists 20th-century Canadian sportsmen Slovenian table tennis players {{Canada-tabletennis-bio-stub