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
Bronze medal – third place 1957 Stockholm Team
Bronze medal – third place 1953 Bucharest Team
Bronze medal – third place 1951 Vienna Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1951 Vienna Team
Silver medal – second place 1950 Budapest Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1950 Budapest Team
Gold medal – first place 1949 Stockholm Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1949 Stockholm Team
Gold medal – first place 1948 Wembley Team
Gold medal – first place 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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