František Tokár

František Tokár
Personal information
Nationality Czechoslovakia
Born(1925-05-25)25 May 1925
Veľké Chrašťany, Czechoslovakia
Died29 October 1993(1993-10-29) (aged 68)
Bratislava, Slovakia
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Championships
1957 Stockholm Team
1953 Bucharest Team
1951 Vienna Doubles
1951 Vienna Team
1950 Budapest Doubles
1950 Budapest Team
1949 Stockholm Doubles
1949 Stockholm Team
1948 Wembley Team
1947 Paris Team

František Tokár (25 May 1925 – 29 October 1993) was a Slovak table tennis player who represented Czechoslovakia.[1]

Personal life

Tokár was born on 25 May 1925 in Veľké Chrašťany. He worked at the Slovak Institute of Physical Training in Bratislava.[2] He died in Bratislava on 29 October 1993.

Table tennis career

From 1947 to 1957, he won ten medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[3]

The ten World Championship medals[4] included five gold medals; four in the men's team event and one in the doubles with Ivan Andreadis at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships.[5][6]

Hall of Fame

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Table Tennis Federation in 1995.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Veterans Lead" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  3. ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16.
  4. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  5. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  6. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  7. ^ "ITTF Hall of Fame" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
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