Vladimír Miko
Vladimír Miko (22 March 1943 - 30 December 2017), was a male former international table tennis player from Slovakia.[1]
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Nationality | Slovakia | ||||||||||
Born | Krupina, Slovakia | 22 March 1943||||||||||
Died | Prague, Czech Republic | 30 December 2017||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
He won a bronze medal at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships with Jaroslav Staněk.[2][3]
He started playing in 1951 and was coached by Ladislav Štípek and Ludvík Vyhnanovský. He played in five European Championships, reached a world ranking of 9 and retired in 1970.[4]
He also won five English Open titles.
Coaching
He was the national coach of Luxembourg from 1971-1973, and then the national coach for Czechoslovakia until 1990.[4]
References
- "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
- "Vladimir Miko, mainstay of Czechoslovakian success, passes away". ITTF.
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