Adolf Šlár

Adolf Šlár (born February 14, 1919 , † April 7, 1987 ) was a table tennis player from Czechoslovakia . He was world champion in doubles and with the Czechoslovak team.

At the age of 16, Adolf Šlár won the national championship. Between 1936 and 1955 he took part in eight world championships . He was most successful at the 1947 World Cup in Paris. Here he became world champion in doubles (with Bohumil Váňa ) and with the ČSR team. In mixed he won silver (with Vlasta Depetrisová ). In 1954 he became vice world champion with the team, in doubles he reached third place with Václav Tereba .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TCH	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	last 64	last 32	no participants
TCH	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 128	Semifinals	last 16	2
TCH	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	last 64	last 32	no participants
TCH	World Championship	1949	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 16	last 16
TCH	World Championship	1947	Paris	FRA	last 64	gold	silver	1
TCH	World Championship	1938	Wembley	CLOSELY	Quarter finals	last 16	Quarter finals	3
TCH	World Championship	1937	to bathe	AUT	last 32	Semifinals	Quarter finals	3
TCH	World Championship	1936	Prague	TCH	last 128	Semifinals	no participants

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• Adolf Slar died , DTS magazine , 1987/9 p. 32

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historický ústav Akademie věd České republiky - Heslář biografického slovníku Českých zemí (Saaková-Žveykal) (pdf; 775 kB) p. 203
2. ^ ITTF statistics ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 15, 2011)