Alex Agopoff

Alex Agopoff
Alex Agopoff (on the left) and Eugène Bouchard
Personal information
Nationality France
Born(1918-05-25)25 May 1918
Died25 August 2009(2009-08-25) (aged 91)
Medal record
Representing  France
World Table Tennis Championships
1947 Men's team
1950 Men's team

Alexandre Agopoff (1918-2009), was a male French international table tennis player.[1]

At the beginning of his table tennis career, he won the French Championship during the German occupation, defeating the Lille-born player Eugène Bouchard, Champion of Flanders, in the final.[2]

He won a bronze medal at the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event). Three years later he won a second bronze at the 1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup.[3][4]

Agopoff won eleven titles at national French championships, 1945 in singles, 1939, 1939, 1945 and 1947 in doubles and 1939, 1946, 1949-1951 and 1957 in mixed.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4145616m/f4.item
  3. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. ^ "In Memorium" (PDF). Swaythling Club International. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2018-04-12.