Erwin Klein (table tennis player)

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Erwin Klein (born June 6, 1938 † September 30, 1992 in Los Angeles ) was an American table tennis player . He was world champion in mixed.

Erwin Klein was the son of an American. His mother was of German-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the best American table tennis players in the 1950s and 1960s. He won four singles at the American Open Championships (1956, 1961, 1964, 1965). Klein took part in the World Cup in 1955, 1956, 1963 and 1967. In 1956 he was in Tokyo with Leah Neuberger mixed world champion; they defeated Ivan Andreadis / Ann Haydon in the final . After that, Klein postponed table tennis in favor of studying until 1961.

In 1981, the American Table Tennis Association accepted him into the Hall of Fame .

In 1992, Klein was shot dead by a business partner in Los Angeles.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
United States  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 32  last 64  last 128  18th 
United States  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 64  last 16  last 64  5 
United States  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   last 16  last 16  gold  11 
United States  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 128  last 16  no participants   

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Klein on deathfigures.com
  2. ↑ According to Tim Boggan in History of US Table Tennis Vol III , Erwin Klein was 21 years old in 1960 (accessed November 29, 2013)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1955/14 p. 17
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1961/24 West issue p. 5
  5. ↑ ITTF database (accessed July 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Small, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1938
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1992
Place of death los Angeles