Viktor Hirsch

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Viktor Hirsch (* around 1940) is a former Austrian table tennis player . He was three times Austrian and one Australian champion.

The first name is sometimes written as Victor .

Career

Hirsch represented Austria at the European Youth Championships in 1957 and 1958. He reached the final in doubles with Hans Zankl . In 1958 he took part in the European Championship for adults, a year later he was nominated for the World Championship in Dortmund. In 1959 and 1960 he won the Austrian championship in singles. In 1960, he took first place in the national ranking.

In 1960 he emigrated to Australia. Here he was Australian champion in singles, doubles (with John Marton) and mixed (with Mrs Suzy Javor) in 1961. After further stints in Sweden and the USA, he returned to Austria in 1966.

In 1967, Hirsch won the Austrian championship again and was nominated again for the world championship in Stockholm. In 1974 he joined the club Sportunion Wolkersdorf , with whose men's team he rose to the State League B in the 1975/76 season. In the early 80s, Hirsch was - like many other former top players - active in the lower divisions of the newly founded TTK Eden.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1958  Falkenberg  SWE     silver     
AUT  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1957  Donaueschingen  FRG     silver     
AUT  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 128  last 128  no participants  21st 
AUT  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 256  last 32  last 32  9 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1966 he was 26 years old according to the magazine DTS , 1966/22 p. 3
  2. ^ Youth EM 1957 , JEM 1958 (accessed April 17, 2020)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/16 p. 7
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/13 p. 2 + 1960/14 p. 3
  5. ↑ Pennant ( Memento of April 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed January 23, 2016)
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/22 p. 3
  7. ↑ Mini-Festschrift (accessed on July 30, 2010; PDF; 7.3 MB)
  8. ↑ WTTV championship archive (accessed April 1, 2012; PDF; 4.4 MB)
  9. ↑ Viktor Hirsch Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 8, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1940