Bohumil Váňa
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Bohumil Váňa (17 January 1920 in Prague - 4 November 1989 in Prague) was a male international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia.[1]
Table tennis career[]
From 1935 to 1955 he won an incredible 30 medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2] This included 13 gold medals.[3][4][5][6][7] He also won five English Open titles.
See also[]
- List of table tennis players
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2011-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Stats". ITTF.
- ^ "Champions". USATT.
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 1989 deaths
- Czech male table tennis players
- Czechoslovak table tennis players
- Sportspeople from Prague
- Czech table tennis biography stubs