Ladislav Štípek

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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
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

  1. ↑ * 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)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/4 p. 7
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/1 p. 21
  4. ↑ http://www.ittf.com/museum/Hof/HoF.html
  5. ↑ Do síně slávy byli slavnostně přijati noví členové (Czech) (accessed April 12, 2020)
  6. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed September 15, 2011)

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personal data
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