Shimcha Finkelstein
{{Short description|Polish-Israeli table tennis player}}
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Shimcha Finkelstein ({{Langx|he|שמך פינקלשטין}}; 1917–1987), was a male Polish and Israeli international table tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=shimcha-finkelstein-129662|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
Table tennis career
He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Samuel Schieff for Poland.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/world-table-tennis-championships-medal-winners.html|title=List of Gold and silver medal Winners|publisher=All About Table Tennis}}
He was Polish team champion for Hasmonea Warsaw and singles champion in 1937. He was of Jewish origin and before the war switched allegiance to Israel and won the first ever Israeli championship beating Mordecai Finberg in the final.{{cite web|url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/pcssr.2011.53.issue--1/v10141-011-0023-7/v10141-011-0023-7.pdf|title=Israeli Table Tennis Association|publisher=Degruyter|access-date=2018-03-29|archive-date=2019-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605092542/https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/pcssr.2011.53.issue--1/v10141-011-0023-7/v10141-011-0023-7.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
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Category:Polish male table tennis players
Category:Israeli table tennis players
Category:World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Category:Sportspeople from Warsaw
Category:Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Category:Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
Category:20th-century Polish sportsmen
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