Ladislav Štípek

Ladislav Štípek
Nationality	Czechoslovakia
Born	(1925-06-10)10 June 1925 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	13 February 1998(1998-02-13) (aged 72) Barcelona, Spain
Medal record Men's table tennis Representing  Czechoslovakia World Championships 1959 Dortmund Doubles 1957 Stockholm Doubles 1957 Stockholm Team 1956 Tokyo Doubles 1956 Tokyo Team 1955 Utrecht Doubles 1955 Utrecht Mixed Doubles 1955 Utrecht Team 1954 Wembley Team 1953 Bucharest Singles 1951 Vienna Doubles 1951 Vienna Team 1950 Budapest Doubles 1950 Budapest Mixed Doubles 1949 Stockholm Doubles 1949 Stockholm Team 1948 Wembley Doubles 1948 Wembley Team 1947 Paris Doubles European Championships 1958 Budapest Doubles 1958 Budapest Team

Ladislav Štípek (10 June 1925 – 13 February 1998) was a Czech male international table tennis player, representing Czechoslovakia.

Table tennis career

From 1947 to 1959 he won some medals in team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.^[1]

His 19 World Championship medals^[2][3] included five gold medals; two in the team event and three in the doubles with Bohumil Váňa and Ivan Andreadis respectively.^[4][5]

He also won an English Open title.

Personal life

He worked as an official for the Ninth of May Jawa motorcycle works.^[6]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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