Vladimír Miko Explained

Vladimír Miko
Birth Date:22 March 1943
Birth Place:Krupina, Slovakia
Death Place:Prague, Czech Republic

Vladimír Miko (22 March 1943 - 30 December 2017), was a male former international table tennis player from Slovakia.[1]

Table tennis career

He won a bronze medal at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships with Jaroslav Staněk.[2] [3]

He started playing in 1951 and was coached by Ladislav Štípek and Ludvík Vyhnanovský. He played in five European Championships, reached a world ranking of 9 and retired in 1970.[4]

He also won five English Open titles.

Coaching

He was the national coach of Luxembourg from 1971 to 1973, and then the national coach for Czechoslovakia until 1990.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  2. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
  3. Web site: Men's doubles results. https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsMD.pdf. dead. 2012-04-12. International Table Tennis Federation.
  4. Web site: Vladimir Miko, mainstay of Czechoslovakian success, passes away. 9 January 2018 . ITTF.