Miloslav Hamr

Miloslav Hamr
Nationality Czech

Miloslav Hamr was a Czechoslovakian table tennis player, who was world champion in mixed doubles and team table tennis.

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Table tennis career

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.[1][2][3] He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo.[4]

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References

  1. ^ "Table Tennis: World Championships: Mixed Doubles". Sports 123. http://sports123.com/tte/xw-d.html. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 
  2. ^ "World Table Tennis Championships – Gold Medals". ITTF. http://www.ittf.com/press/PDF_Documents/WTTC_GoldMedals.pdf. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 
  3. ^ Tim Boggan (2000). "History of U.S. Table Tennis". USATT. http://www.usatt.org/articles/history/history15.shtml. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 
  4. ^ "ITTF Database". Ittf.com. http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2666&NAMES=HAMR+Miloslav+%28TCH%29&Assoc1=TCH&Assoc=&s_Gender=&s_Names=hamr&. Retrieved July 19, 2011. 

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