Miloslav Hamr
{{Short description|Czech table tennis player}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's table tennis}}
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{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|1933|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|1934|Doubles}}
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{{MedalSilver|1935|Team}}
{{MedalGold|1936|Mixed Doubles}}
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{{MedalBronze|1937|Mixed Doubles}}
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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.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/xw-d.html |title=Table Tennis: World Championships: Mixed Doubles |publisher=Sports 123 |access-date=July 19, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/press/PDF_Documents/WTTC_GoldMedals.pdf|title=World Table Tennis Championships – Gold Medals|publisher=ITTF|access-date=July 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312041352/http://www.ittf.com/press/PDF_Documents/WTTC_GoldMedals.pdf|archive-date=March 12, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.usatt.org/articles/history/history15.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619014926/http://usatt.org/articles/history/history15.shtml |archive-date=June 19, 2010|title=History of U.S. Table Tennis |publisher=USATT |date= 2000|first= Tim |last=Boggan|access-date=December 5, 2015}} He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo.{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2666&NAMES=HAMR+Miloslav+%28TCH%29&Assoc1=TCH&Assoc=&s_Gender=&s_Names=hamr& |title=ITTF Database |publisher=Ittf.com |access-date=July 19, 2011}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2666&NAMES=HAMR+Miloslav+%28TCH%29&Assoc1=TCH&Assoc=&s_Gender=&s_Names=hamr& ITTF bio]
{{Footer World Champions Table Tennis Doubles Mixed}}
{{Footer World Champions Table Tennis Team Men}}
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Category:Czech male table tennis players