Max Marinko

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Max Marinko
Personal information
Nationality Yugoslavia
 Czechoslovakia
 Canada
Born(1916-09-16)16 September 1916
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Died20 August 1975(1975-08-20) (aged 58)
Toronto, Canada
Medal record
Representing  Yugoslavia
World Table Tennis Championships
Silver medal – second place 1939 team
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Table Tennis Championships
Gold medal – first place 1948 team
Silver medal – second place 1949 team
Gold medal – first place 1950 team

Max Marinko (1916–1975) was a Yugoslav-Czechoslovak international table tennis player.[1]

Table tennis career[edit]

Marinko won a silver medal at the 1939 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event for Yugoslavia.[2] After World War II, he switched allegiance to Czechoslovakia and went on to win three more medals, two of which were gold, in the team event.[3][4]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  4. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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