Vladimír Miko

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Vladimír Miko (born March 22, 1943 in Krupina , † December 30, 2017 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak table tennis player who became European champion twice in the 1960s.

Career

Vladimír "Vlado" Miko began playing table tennis in 1951 at the STO Tatran Krupina association and moved to Sparta Prague in 1957 , where he was trained by Ladislav Štípek and Ludvík Vyhnanovský .

In 1959 he was appointed to the national team of the ČSR, of which he was a member until 1971. Miko achieved numerous international successes with his compatriot Jaroslav Staněk as a double partner. From 1959 to 1969 he took part in seven world championships . He came in 1967 in doubles with Staněk to the semi-finals. Four times he was fifth with the team. He was nominated five times for the European Championships . Here he was most successful in 1964 and 1966 . In 1964 he became European champion in doubles and vice European champion in mixed with Marta Lužová . He also won bronze with the ČSSR team. Two years later he won silver in singles behind the Swede Kjell Johansson and silver in doubles, he won gold in mixed with Lužová.

At the International German Championships, the doubles won in 1966 and 1968, the mixed with Marta Lužová was first in 1965 and 1968 and second in 1966. In doubles with Staněk, he won the International Austrian Championship in 1966, and they were able to achieve further successes at the International Championships of Scandinavia, the ČSSR and Poland as well as in Moscow. In singles, Miko won the ČSSR championship five times.

The national rankings led Miko in 1965, in the ITTF world rankings he was in mid-1967 in ninth place.

End of active career

After 1970, Miko no longer appeared internationally. He later worked as a coach, from 1971 to 1973 as national coach in Luxembourg, after which he coached the men's team of Czechoslovakia until 1990. Until 2009 he was president of the Czech section of the Swaythling Club International .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH European Championship 1970 Moscow URS Quarter finals Quarter finals
TCH European Championship 1968 Lyon FRA last 16 Quarter finals Quarter finals
TCH European Championship 1966 London CLOSELY silver silver gold
TCH European Championship 1964 Malmo SWE last 16 gold silver 3
TCH European Championship 1960 Zagreb YUG last 16 Quarter finals 3
TCH World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 64 Quarter finals last 16 7th
TCH World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE Quarter finals Semifinals Quarter finals 5
TCH World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG last 32 last 16 Quarter finals 5
TCH World Championship 1963 Prague TCH last 64 Quarter finals last 64 5
TCH World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 256 last 32 last 128 5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zomrel Krupinsky Rodak, známy stolný tenista Vladimír Miko. In: sme.sk. January 5, 2018, accessed May 17, 2018 (Slovak).
  2. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 134-137.
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/19 p. 8
  4. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on October 23, 2011)
  5. ↑ SCI-News No. 87, 2009/9 p. 16 (accessed on October 23, 2011; PDF; 2.1 MB)
  6. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed October 23, 2011)
  7. ↑ a b http://www.sstz.sk/Vsetko/Historia/sien_slavy.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Miko, Vladimír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miko, Vlado
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Krupina
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2017
Place of death Prague