Erwin Kohn
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Full name | Kohn Erwin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Baden bei Wien | 20 December 1911||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 March 1994 Mar del Plata | (aged 82)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Erwin Kohn (20 December 1911, in Baden – 18 March 1994, in Mar del Plata) was a male international table tennis player from Austria.[1]
Table tennis career[]
Kohn was Austria's national table tennis champion by the age of 16. From 1932 to 1936 he won eight medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2][3]
The nine World Championship medals included a gold medal in the team event at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships for Austria.[4][5]
Personal life[]
He was of Jewish descent so fled to England in 1938 and then emigrated to Argentina.[6]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ Erwin Kohn - career results at the ITTF website
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Hall of Fame". Jewish Sports.
Categories:
- Austrian male table tennis players
- Jewish table tennis players
- Austrian Jews
- Austrian emigrants to Argentina
- 1911 births
- 1994 deaths
- European table tennis biography stubs
- Austrian sportspeople stubs