Miloslav Hamr Explained

Miloslav Hamer
Nickname:Milo
Birth Date:22 June 1913

Miloslav Hamer (Hamr in some sources) (22 June 1913 - 4 February 2002) was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player who was world champion in mixed doubles and team table tennis.

Table tennis career

He won eleven medals in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1933 to 1939.[1] In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová to win the gold medal in the Mixed Doubles 10th World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans Buddy Blattner and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game.[2] [3] [4] He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
  2. Web site: Table Tennis: World Championships: Mixed Doubles . Sports 123 . July 19, 2011.
  3. Web site: World Table Tennis Championships – Gold Medals. ITTF. July 19, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120312041352/http://www.ittf.com/press/PDF_Documents/WTTC_GoldMedals.pdf. March 12, 2012.
  4. News: History of U.S. Table Tennis . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619014926/http://usatt.org/articles/history/history15.shtml . June 19, 2010. USATT . 2000. Tim . Boggan. December 5, 2015.
  5. Web site: ITTF Database . Ittf.com . July 19, 2011.