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 medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.
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s; 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
International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993 as one of twelve founding members.
Since 1967, the Richard Bergmann Fair Play Trophy is contested at the Liebherr World Championships.
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See also
* List of select Jewish table tennis players
* List of table tennis players
* List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
* List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
References
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1919 births
1970 deaths
Sportspeople from Vienna
Austrian male table tennis players
Jewish table tennis players
Austrian Jews
Austrian people of Polish-Jewish descent
Austrian people of Italian descent
English Jews
English people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism
English male table tennis players