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 name	František Tokár
Nationality	Czechoslovakia
Born	(1925-05-25)25 May 1925
Died	29 October 1993(1993-10-29) (aged 68)
Medal record Men's table tennis Representing  Czechoslovakia World Championships 1957 Stockholm Team 1953 Bucharest Team 1951 Vienna Doubles 1951 Vienna Team 1950 Budapest Doubles 1950 Budapest Team 1949 Stockholm Doubles 1949 Stockholm Team 1948 Wembley Team 1947 Paris Team

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]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
2. "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. ^{[dead link]}
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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
7. "ITTF Hall of Fame" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-29.