Erwin Kohn
{{short description|Austrian table tennis player}}
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| fullname = Kohn Erwin
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| nationality = {{AUT}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|12|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Baden bei Wien
| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|03|18|1911|12|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Mar del Plata
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{{MedalSport | Men's table tennis}}
{{MedalCountry | {{AUT}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 1936 Prague | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1935 London | Singles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1935 London | Team}}
{{MedalSilver | 1934 Paris | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1933 Baden | Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1933 Baden | Team}}
{{MedalBronze | 1932 Prague | Singles}}
{{MedalBronze | 1932 Prague | Team}}
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Erwin Kohn (20 December 1911, in Baden – 18 March 1994, in Mar del Plata) was a male international table tennis player from Austria.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=erwin-kohn-128493|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
Table tennis career
Kohn was Austria's national table tennis champion by the age of 16. From 1932 to 1936 he won eight medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}[http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=3707&NAMES=KOHN+Erwin+%28AUT%29&Assoc1=AUT&Assoc=&s_Gender=&s_Names=Kohn& Erwin Kohn] - career results at the ITTF website
The nine World Championship medals included a gold medal in the team event at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships for Austria.{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}
Personal life
He was of Jewish descent so fled to England in 1938 and then emigrated to Argentina.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/Erwin-Kohn.htm|title=Hall of Fame|publisher=Jewish Sports}}
See also
References
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Category:Austrian male table tennis players
Category:Austrian emigrants to Argentina
Category:Sportspeople from Baden bei Wien
Category:20th-century Austrian sportsmen
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