Max Marinko
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Born | Ljubljana, Yugoslavia | 16 September 1916|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | Toronto, Canada | 20 August 1975|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Max Marinko (1916–1975) was a Yugoslav and Czechoslovak international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career[]
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]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "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.
Categories:
- Yugoslav table tennis players
- Czechoslovak male table tennis players
- Yugoslav emigrants to Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada
- Canadian male table tennis players
- Sportspeople from Ljubljana
- 1916 births
- 1975 deaths
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- Czech table tennis biography stubs
- North American table tennis biography stubs
- Canadian sportspeople stubs