Marie Šmídová Explained

Marie Šmídová
Birth Date:19 April 1907

Marie Šmídová (née Masáková; April 19, 1907 – 1963), was a female Czech international table tennis player.[1]

Table tennis career

She won fourteen World Table Tennis Championships medals, in the women's singles, doubles and team events and the mixed doubles. She won three gold medals; two in the team event and one in the women's doubles.[2]

The fourteen World Championship medals[3] [4] included three gold medals; one in the doubles with Marie Kettnerová at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships and two in the team event.[5] [6]

She also won two English Open titles.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  2. Web site: ITTF_Database. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304211517/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=6634. 2016-03-04.
  3. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
  4. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  5. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
  6. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.