Ladislav Štípek
Ladislav Štípek (* 1925 in Prague ; † February 13, 1998 in Barcelona ) was a Czech table tennis player . He was particularly successful in doubles, where he was three times world champion and once European champion.
World championships
Between 1947 and 1960 Štípek took part in 12 world championships, where he won 19 medals. He won the title three times in doubles, namely in 1948 with Bohumil Váňa , 1955 with Ivan Andreadis and in 1957 again with Ivan Andreadis. In 1948 and 1951 he won gold with the Czech team. He took silver in doubles in 1949 , 1956 and 1959 . There are also four vice world championships with the Czech team.
European championships
Štípek was nominated for the 1958 and 1960 European championships . In 1958 he was European champion in doubles with Ludvík Vyhnanovský , with the Czech team he reached second place.
Trainer
After completing his active career in 1960, Štípek worked as a coach in Czechoslovakia, in Peru (until 1966) and from 1977 as head coach of the national team in Spain. In 1987, the Czechoslovak authorities refused him the residence permit required to extend his contract in Spain, so he emigrated. After the Velvet Revolution , Štípek was able to return to his homeland in November 1989 and visited Prague.
Honor
Štípek, national CSSR champion in 1955 and 1957, received the ITTF Merit Award in 1991 and was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2015, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Czech Table Tennis Association, he was posthumously accepted into the Hall of Fame of Czech Table Tennis.
In 1955, Štípek worked alongside Jiří Šrámek, Bohumil Váňa, Ludvík Vyhnanovský and Josef Posejpal in the two-part documentary "Stolní tenis" made by Jiří Jahn.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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TCH | European Championship | 1960 | Zagreb | YUG | Quarter finals | |||
TCH | European Championship | 1958 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | gold | 2 | |
TCH | World Championship | 1963 | Prague | TCH | no participants | last 16 | no participants | |
TCH | World Championship | 1959 | Dortmund | FRG | last 64 | silver | last 32 | 5 |
TCH | World Championship | 1957 | Stockholm | SWE | last 32 | gold | Quarter finals | 3 |
TCH | World Championship | 1956 | Tokyo | JPN | last 64 | silver | last 32 | 2 |
TCH | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | last 32 | gold | Semifinals | 2 |
TCH | World Championship | 1954 | Wembley | CLOSELY | last 16 | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | 2 |
TCH | World Championship | 1953 | Bucharest | ROU | Semifinals | last 16 | last 16 | |
TCH | World Championship | 1951 | Vienna | AUT | last 32 | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 1 |
TCH | World Championship | 1950 | Budapest | HUN | last 16 | Semifinals | Semifinals | |
TCH | World Championship | 1949 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | silver | last 32 | 2 |
TCH | World Championship | 1948 | Wembley | CLOSELY | last 16 | gold | Quarter finals | 1 |
TCH | World Championship | 1947 | Paris | FRA | last 16 | Semifinals | Quarter finals |
swell
- Obituary in DTS magazine , 1998/4 p. 32
Individual evidence
- ↑ * June 10th, 1923 according to http://www.cojeco.cz/index.php?detail=1&id_desc=397802&title=%8At%EDpek&s_lang=2 (accessed on August 24, 2010)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/4 p. 7
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/1 p. 21
- ↑ http://www.ittf.com/museum/Hof/HoF.html
- ↑ Do síně slávy byli slavnostně přijati noví členové (Czech) (accessed April 12, 2020)
- ^ ITTF statistics (accessed September 15, 2011)
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Štípek, Ladislav |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1998 |
Place of death | Barcelona |