Ivan Andreadis (3 April 1924 – 27 October 1992) was a Czech table tennis player.

Table tennis career

He won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1947 to 1957.[1]

His 27 World Championship medals[2][3] included nine gold medals; four in the team event, four in the doubles with František Tokár, Bohumil Váňa and Ladislav Štípek respectively and one in the mixed doubles with Gizi Farkas.[4][5]

He also won three English Open titles.

He was of Greek-Jewish origin.[6]

Hall of Fame

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

He worked as a railway planning official in the ČKD Sokolovo works in Prague.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ITTF database: Ivan Andreadis".
  2. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  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. ↑ "Czechoslovak Table Tennis Association" (PDF). Degruyter.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  7. ↑ "ITTF Hall of Fame" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  8. ↑ "Veterans Lead" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Andreadis