Max Marinko (1916–1975) was a Yugoslav-Czechoslovak international table tennis player.[1]
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Nationality | Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ljubljana, Yugoslavia | 16 September 1916||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 20 August 1975 Toronto, Canada | (aged 58)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Table tennis career edit
Marinko won a silver medal at the 1939 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event for Yugoslavia.[2] After World War II, he switched allegiance to Czechoslovakia and went on to win three more medals, two of which were gold, in the team event.[3][4]
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References edit
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.