| Erwin Klein | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Erwin Klein | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 June 1938 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 September 1992 (aged 54) Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||||
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Erwin Klein (June 6, 1938 - September 30, 1992) [1] [2] was a male table tennis player from the United States, who four times US Open Table Tennis Singles Champion. [3] [4] His nickname was Chubby. [5] He won a gold medal in the Mixed Doubles event at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1956. [6]
Klein lived in Los Angeles and was Jewish. [7] [8] He attended Fairfax High School, UCLA and Cal-Berkeley. [5] [9]
He was Southern California men's champion at the age of 11. [10] Klein won the U.S. National Boys 15-under Championship (at age 13) and the respective age groups at age 16, 17, and 18. [9] At age 18, he also won the National Juniors title, and the National Men's Singles and Doubles Championships. [9] In 1955, he and Richard Bergmann won the U.S. Open Table Tennis Men's Doubles Championship. [7]
In 1956, he, 17 years old, and Leah Neuberger won the World Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Championship in Tokyo. [7] [11] was a four-time US Open Table Tennis Singles Champion. In 1956 and 1961, he was the U.S. singles champion. [9] [12] In both 1964 and 1965, he won the U.S. Open Table Tennis Men's Singles Championship, and he and Bernard Bukiet won the U.S. Open Table Tennis Men's Doubles Championship. [9] [7] [13]
In 1973, he was a member of the United States table tennis team that competed against China. [9]
In 1990, Klein was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. [9]
He was shot to death in Los Angeles by a business partner in an argument on September 30, 1992. The shooter then killed himself. [14]
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