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| Nickname(s) | Milo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 June 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 February 2002 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miloslav Hamer (Hamr in some sources) (22 June 1913 - 4 February 2002) was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player who was world champion in mixed doubles and team table tennis.
He won eleven medals in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1933 to 1939. [1] In March 1936, he teamed with Gertrude Kleinová to win the gold medal in the Mixed Doubles 10th World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, in a competition that saw them defeat Americans Buddy Blattner and Jay Purves in the preliminaries as they won 21–19 in the fifth game. [2] [3] [4] He also won the team championship in 1939 in Cairo. [5]
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