Adolf Herskovic
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Nationality | Yugoslavia Italy United States | ||||||||||
Born | Zagreb | April 30, 1916||||||||||
Died | California | February 26, 2011||||||||||
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Adolf Herskovic (later Allan Herskovic; 1916–2011) was a male Yugoslav international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career[]
He won a silver medal at the 1939 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Žarko Dolinar, Ladislav Hexner, Tibor Harangozo and Max Marinko for Yugoslavia.[2][3]
He represented Italy from 1948 until 1950 before he changed his name to Allan from Adolf and emigrated to the United States where he captained the US team in 1974.[4]
Personal life[]
He was of Jewish descent and lost his parents and a sister in concentration camps during the war. He took refuge in Italy with some brothers but was arrested and interned in a camp in Cosenza where he was freed by the allies in 1943. In the United States he was a member of the Jewish Athletic Club and played soccer and gymnastics.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ "List of Gold and silver medal Winners". All About Table Tennis.
- ^ "History of USA Table Tennis". Team USA.
- Yugoslav table tennis players
- Italian male table tennis players
- American male table tennis players
- Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
- 1916 births
- 2011 deaths
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists