Louis Pagliaro

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Louis Pagliaro (born May 5, 1919 in Manhattan , † July 8, 2009 in Staten Island ) was an American table tennis player . He took part in two world championships in the 1930s and 1940s , winning two bronze and one silver medal.

Career

Louis Pagliaro was the son of a baker who had emigrated from Italy. He still had four siblings.

Louis Pagliaro was four times national American champion, namely in 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1952. In 1938 he took part in the world championship for the first time . Here he reached the quarter-finals in doubles, with the team he was third. At the 1947 World Cup , he won bronze in the individual and silver in the team competition. In the singles he defeated Victor Barna , Arne Andersson , Hugo Urchetti , Guy Amouretti and Alex Ehrlich before losing to the Bulgarian Bohumil Váňa .

In 1947 he was eighth in the ITTF world rankings . In 1979 he was inducted into the American Hall of Fame for table tennis.

In 1988 his wife, with whom he was married for 49 years, died. With her he had three daughters and a son.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
United States World Championship 1947 Paris FRA Semifinals last 32 no participants 2
United States World Championship 1938 Wembley CLOSELY last 16 Quarter finals no participants 3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, No. 47, Winter 2008, Page 3 (accessed August 25, 2015)
  2. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on August 25, 2015)
  3. ↑ Louis Pagliaro results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 25, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Pagliaro, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pagliaro, Lou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2009
Place of death Staten Island