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

Table tennis career

In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová

Gertrude Kleinová

Gertrude "Traute or Trude" Kleinová was a three-time world champion table tennis player, winning the women's team world championship twice, and the world mixed doubles once....

 to win the gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

 in the Mixed Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage is a programme consisting of a series of eight short plays or revue sketches, each with two characters, composed by various English playwrights. It was first performed on 6 February 1969 in the Hampstead Theatre Club with the title, We Who Are About To......

 10th World Table Tennis Championships

World Table Tennis Championships

The World Table Tennis Championships are held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Seven events were included in the Championships. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in...

 in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans Buddy Blattner

Buddy Blattner

Robert Garnett Blattner , commonly known as "Buddy" or "Bud" Blattner, was an American table tennis and baseball player and radio and television sportscaster.-Playing career:Blattner played table tennis in his youth, winning the world men's doubles championship in 1936...

and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game. He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo.

External links

• ITTF bio