Václav Tereba

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Václav Tereba (born August 21, 1918 - May 22, 1990 ) was a Czechoslovak table tennis player . With the national team he won four world championship gold.

Life

Tereba was an attacking player. His playful talent was discovered in 1933 at SK Malostranský in Prague. His first international appearance at the World Championships in 1936 was a false start when he was eliminated 3-0 against the Lithuanian Juozas Remeikis in the first round.

Between 1936 and 1957 he was represented at twelve world championships . He achieved his greatest successes with the Czechoslovak team, with whom he won eleven medals: gold in 1939 , 1947 , 1950 and 1961 , silver in 1954 , 1955 and 1956 and bronze in 1936 , 1938 , 1953 and 1957 . In 1937 he only took part in the individual competitions. He reached the semifinals once in singles, six times in doubles and twice in mixed. In 1939 he reached the mixed final with Marie Kettnerová .

Tereba won a total of 4 gold, 4 silver and 12 bronze medals at world championships.

Further successes were his victory at the open English championships in 1947 and second place in the team competition at the European championship in 1958.

Tereba was still active in the Czechoslovak table tennis league until the 1970s.

In the ITTF world rankings 1951/52 Tereba was ranked 4th.

His son is the photographer Stanislav Tereba .

In 2015, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Czech Table Tennis Association, Tereba was posthumously accepted into the Czech table tennis hall of fame.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN         2
TCH  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   last 16  Quarter finals  last 64  3
TCH  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   last 16  Semifinals  no participants  2
TCH  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 64  last 64  no participants  2
TCH  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 128  Semifinals  no participants  2
TCH  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   Quarter finals  last 16  Quarter finals  3
TCH  World Championship  1951  Vienna  AUT   Semifinals  Quarter finals  no participants  1
TCH  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   Quarter finals  Semifinals  last 32  1
TCH  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   last 16  Semifinals  last 32  1
TCH  World Championship  1939  Cairo  EGY   last 16  last 16  silver  1
TCH  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  Semifinals  Semifinals  3
TCH  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   last 64  Semifinals  Scratched   
TCH  World Championship  1936  Prague  TCH   last 128  last 32  Quarter finals  3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hiu.cas.cz/cs/download/biogr/bs5.pdf
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/9, p. 51.
  3. ↑ Table tennis magazine 7-8 2005 of the TT-Verband Niedersachsen, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Do síně slávy byli slavnostně přijati noví členové (Czech) (accessed April 12, 2020)
  5. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed September 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Tereba, Vaclav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1918
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1990