Max Marinko

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Max Marinko (born September 16, 1916 in Ljubljana , † August 20, 1975 in Toronto ) was a table tennis player who was one of the world's best players in the 1940s and 1950s. He competed for three nations, Yugoslavia, CSSR and Canada, at world championships.

Life

Marinko's life was shaped by political influences and persecution. He studied in Ljubljana at the Pedagogical Academy and at times in Warsaw at the Sports University. Then he worked as a teacher in Slovenia. With the beginning of the Second World War he had to move to Croatia. Here he was arrested as a partisan and was threatened with being sent to a concentration camp. This was prevented by the intercession of influential friends. From then on he lived as an emigrant in Croatia from 1942 to 1943. He then moved to Bratislava, where he worked as a sports journalist. In 1949 he was arrested as a Titoist . In 1951 he managed to escape. He finally got to Canada via the stations in Austria and Germany.

In Ottawa he studied philosophy with a diploma. He taught Latin and history at the Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and in 1962 he worked as a professor of philosophy in Toronto. In 1956 (or 1957) he married the Canadian table tennis player Jenny Kapostin, with whom he had a daughter Milena .

In 1975 Marinko died of gastric cancer surgery.

Table tennis career

Yugoslavia

Marinko started playing table tennis at Hermes Mladost Ljubljana in 1933. Later he played in the club HASK (Hrvatski akademski športski klub = Croatian academic sports club). At the age of 19 he won the national Yugoslav championship. In 1936 and 1940 Marinko was Yugoslav champion in men's doubles. From 1936 to 1939 he played four times for Yugoslavia at a world championship. In 1939 he won silver with the team. In 1937 he defeated the then world champion Richard Bergmann . At the World Cup in 1938 he came in doubles on place 5-8.

ČSR

From April 1943 Marinko worked as a table tennis player and trainer in Slovakia. He played for ŠK Bratislava, from 1945 ŠK Železničiari Bratislava and from 1948 ŠK Poštári Bratislava. At the same time he was there coach of František Tokár , J. Soják, R. Hrčka, R. Mikeš, J. Hauliš. Four times from 1947 to 1950 he represented the ČSR at world championships. He won gold with the team in 1948 and 1950 and silver in the table tennis world championship in 1949 . Together with František Tokár, Marinko was Slovak and 1948 Czechoslovak doubles champions in 1944, 1947, 1948 and 1950. In 1949 he also won the Slovakian championship title in doubles. At the ČSR championship in 1947 he took silver. In 1949/50 Marinko won the team championship of the ČSR in the team from Poštári Bratislava together with Mikeš, Hrčka and Soják.

Austria and Canada

In the early 1950s Marinko played for FK Austria Wien . He later emigrated to Canada. From 1954 to 1963 he won the Canadian national championship eight times. At the 1959 World Cup in Munich, he performed with the Canadian team.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CAN  World Championship  1969  Munich  FRG   Scratched  Scratched  no participants  28 
TCH  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   last 32  last 64  last 64  1
TCH  World Championship  1949  Stockholm  SWE   last 16  last 64  no participants  2
TCH  World Championship  1948  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 128  last 16  no participants  1
TCH  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   last 32  Quarter finals  no participants   
YUG  World Championship  1939  Cairo  EGY   last 64  Scratched  last 32  2
YUG  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  last 32  no participants  5 
YUG  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   Scratched  no participants  no participants  6th 
YUG  World Championship  1936  Prague  TCH   last 128  Quarter finals  no participants  9 

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Table Tennis News - Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association, February 1957, page 9 (accessed August 12, 2014)
  2. ↑ Tim Boggan : History of US Table Tennis Vol III (accessed November 28, 2013)
  3. ↑ http://www.sstz.sk/Vsetko/Historia/Slavnepostavy.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.sstz.sk/Vsetko/Historia/VyvojST.htm
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1953/3 page 6
  6. ↑ Tim Boggan: History of US Table Tennis Vol VIII: CHAPTER NINE: 1975: Charlie Wuvanich Winner at $ 3,000 Del Webb Townehouse Invitational. 1975: Max Marinko Dies. Insook Na / Dan Seemiller Top CNE. 1975: Zlatko Cordas / Barb Taschner Best at $ 3,000 Nissen Open. (accessed on May 2, 2019)
  7. ↑ ITTF database (accessed May 2, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Marinko, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav, Czech and Canadian table tennis players
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1975
Place of death Toronto