Max Marinko

Max Marinko
Personal information
Birth nameMaks Marinko
Nationality Yugoslavia
 Czechoslovakia
 Canada
Born(1916-09-16)16 September 1916
Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary
Died20 August 1975(1975-08-20) (aged 58)
Toronto, Canada
Sport
SportTable tennis
ClubHermes Ljubljana
HAŠK Zagreb
ŠK Bratislava (1942–1952)
Medal record
Representing  Yugoslavia
World Table Tennis Championships
1939 Cairo Team
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Table Tennis Championships
1948 Wembley Team
1949 Stockholm Team
1950 Budapest Team

Max Marinko (also known as Maks; 16 September 1916 – 20 August 1975) was a Yugoslav-Czechoslovak international table tennis player.[1]

Table tennis career

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]

See also

References

  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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