Zdeněk Heydušek

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Zdeněk Heydušek (born March 9, 1897 in Lukov u Zlína , Moravia, † January 30, 1973 in Prague ) was a Czech table tennis player and functionary.

Career

Heydušek began his sporting career together with his brother Miloš as a gymnast at Sokol Luhačovice. The brothers also played soccer, hockey and table tennis. Zdeněk Heydušek continued the handball game in Luhačovice and coached the team.

He was one of the founders of organized table tennis in Czechoslovakia. From 1923 he played for the Czech Sports Association and the YMCA in Prague. In 1924 he presented the sport in a show event in a Prague student residence, which in 1925 led to the establishment of the ping-pong club PPC Studentský domov na Albertově v Praze. In the same year the PPC held the first Prague championship with 106 participants, the winner of which was Heydušek. In 1926 he took part in international comparisons with the Vienna AC .

From 1926 to 1939 Heydušek took part in six world championships . In 1930 he won bronze with the team.

As the master of Bohemia and Prague, he was eligible to play in the first World Cup in 1926 . Here he lost in the singles in the first round against the Englishman Charles Allwright . In doubles with Jaroslav Kautsky, he got into the second round by bye. Here they were defeated by Cyril Mossford / Hedley Penny (Cardiff). Also in mixed with Mrs. Riegrova he failed in round one due to the defeat against the Englishmen Percival Bromfield / Mrs. Bromfield. Later he entered the world championships in 1930 , 1931 , 1933 , 1936 and 1939 , often only in single or only in double competition.

When the Czechoslovak table tennis association ČsAST was founded on October 6, 1945, Zdeněk Heydušek took over the chairmanship. He held this position until 1948 and then left office because he rejected the merger of all sports associations ordered by the communists. In 1948 he donated the so-called Heydušek Cup , which has since been presented to the mixed title winners at every world championship. In 1949 Heydušek was banned from any activity as a sports official. In 1951 he had to end his position as vice-president of the ITTF because the Czechoslovak authorities refused to allow him to leave the country and made it impossible for him to continue working. In the same year he was made an honorary member of the ITTF.

family

Zdeněk Heydušek's father Antonín Heydušek (1862-1919) was a forester who was employed by Count Seilern-Aspang in Lukov from 1895, and from 1908 by Count Sérenyi. His mother Zdeňka Heydušková, b. Smetanová (1861-1936) was the first daughter of the Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana from his second marriage to Bettina Ferdinandová. The parents' wedding took place in 1889. Zdeněk's older brother Miloš was born in 1890 and his sister Daniela in 1894. From 1908 the family lived in Luhačovice . Zdeněk Heydušek attended the secondary school in Uherský Brod and moved to Prague in 1921, where he began studying at the Technical University, which he completed as a civil engineer. Since 1948 he was subjected to professional harassment. He was transferred from Prague to Karlový Vary, where he first built cow and calf sheds. He later worked in Cheb, where he was made an honorary citizen in 1952. In 1955 Heydušek returned to Prague and directed the expansion of the Savarin Palace.

He was married to Pavla Svobodová († 1975) since 1927 and had a son Petr (* 1930). His urn was transferred to Luhačovice in 1974 and buried in the grave of Smetana's second wife Bettina Ferdinandová.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH  World Championship  1939  Cairo  EGY   no participants  last 16  no participants   
TCH  World Championship  1936  Prague  TCH   no participants  last 32  no participants   
TCH  World Championship  1933  to bathe  AUT   last 64  no participants  no participants   
TCH  World Championship  1931  Budapest  HUN   Agony  no participants  no participants   
TCH  World Championship  1930  Berlin  FRG   last 64  Agony  no participants  3
TCH  World Championship  1926  London  CLOSELY   last 64  last 16  Scratched  6th 

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brodský zpravodaj 14-15 / 2001 ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uherskybrod.cz
  2. ↑ Počátky stolního tenisu - 2.díl ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tabletennis-online.info
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1951/19 issue west-south, page 3
  4. ↑ Zdeněk Heydušek Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 8, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Heydušek, Zdeněk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Lukov u Zlína (Moravia)
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1973
Place of death Prague