František Tokár

František Tokár (25 May 1925 in Veľké Chrašťany – 29 October 1993 in Bratislava) was a male international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia.[1]

František Tokár
Full nameFrantišek Tokár
Nationality Czechoslovakia

Table tennis career

From 1947 to 1957 he won ten medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2]

The ten World Championship medals[3] included five gold medals; four in the men's team event and one in the doubles with Ivan Andreadis at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships.[4][5]

Personal life

He worked at the Slovak Institute of Physical Training in Bratislava, Slovakia.[6]

Hall of Fame

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Table Tennis Federation in 1995.[7]

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See also

References
  1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=7218
  3. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  5. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  6. "Veterans Lead" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
  7. "ITTF Hall of Fame" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-29.


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