Ludvík Vyhnanovský

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Ludvík Vyhnanovský (born January 20, 1927 in Prague ; † August 24, 2010 there ) was a Czech table tennis player . Vyhnanovský achieved his greatest successes in the 1950s. In 1958 he was European champion in doubles.

successes

Ludvík Vyhnanovský was national Czech champion ten times. From 1950 to 1963 he took part in eight world championships . He won with the Czech team in 1955 and 1956 silver and 1953 and 1957 bronze. In 1959 he was runner-up in doubles with Ladislav Štípek when the final against the Japanese Ichirō Ogimura / Teruo Murakami was lost. As early as 1956 he had reached the semi-finals in doubles with Václav Tereba . Also in 1957 he came in mixed with Helen Elliot (Scotland) under the last four.

At the European championship , which was held for the first time in 1958 , he prevailed with Ladislav Štípek in the double final against Toma Reiter / Otto Bottner (Romania) and thus became European champion. With the ČSSR team he was second, in the individual he reached the semi-finals.

In 1958 and 1959 he led the ČSSR rankings. Since 1957 he worked as a coach at Sparta Prague , whose women's team won the European trade fair cup in 1977 .

In 1955 Jiří Jahn turned with the support of the chief editor of the magazine Tennis stolní tennis , Joseph Stein, in the film studios of Gottwaldov the two-part documentary Stolní tenis ( "table tennis"), in which not only Ludvík Vyhnanovský including Ladislav Štípek , Bohumil Váňa , Miloslav Hamer and Adolf Šlár participated.

Private

His older brother Wenceslaus Vyhnanovský was a department head at Sparta Prague.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH  European Championship  1960  Zagreb  YUG   last 16       
TCH  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   Semifinals  gold  Quarter finals  2
TCH  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 64  last 64  last 128   
TCH  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   last 32  last 32  last 32  10 
TCH  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 32  silver  last 64  5 
TCH  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   last 64  Quarter finals  Semifinals  3
TCH  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   last 128  Semifinals  no participants  2
TCH  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 128  last 64  last 16  2
TCH  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   last 32  last 64  last 32  3
TCH  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   last 16  last 64  last 32   

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.cojeco.cz (accessed on August 24, 2010)
  2. ↑ www.sport.cz (accessed on August 24, 2010)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1958/21 page 4 + 1959/18 page 12
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/13 pp. 10-11
  5. ^ Obituary for Josef Stein ( Memento from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Czech, with photo (accessed on August 24, 2010)
  6. ^ DTS magazine , 1981/2 page 16
  7. ↑ Ludvík Vyhnanovský results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 16, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Vyhnanovský, Ludvík
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2010
Place of death Prague