Václav Tereba

Václav Tereba (21 August 1918 – 22 February 1990), was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player.[1]

Václav Tereba
Personal information
Nationality Czech Republic
Born(1918-08-21)21 August 1918
Died22 February 1990(1990-02-22) (aged 71)
Medal record
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place1936Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1937Men's Doubles
Bronze medal – third place1938Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1938Men's Doubles
Bronze medal – third place1938Mixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1939Men's Team
Silver medal – second place1939Mixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1947Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1947Men's Doubles
Gold medal – first place1950Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1950Men's Doubles
Gold medal – first place1951Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1951Men's Singles
Bronze medal – third place1953Men's Team
Silver medal – second place1954Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1954Men's Doubles
Silver medal – second place1955Men's Team
Silver medal – second place1956Men's Team
Bronze medal – third place1956Men's Doubles
Bronze medal – third place1957Men's Team

He won twenty World Table Tennis Championship medals[2] including four gold medals as part of the Czechoslovakia men's team event.[3][4]

In addition he won four silver medals, three in the men's team event and one in the mixed doubles with Marie Kettnerová and twelve bronze medals, three in the men's team, one in the men's singles, one in the mixed doubles and six in the men's doubles with four different partners, Adolf Slar, Stanislav Kolář, Josef Turnovsky and Ludvik Vyhnanovsky.[5]

Other achievements included victory in the open English Championships in 1947. He died in 1990 and his son is Stanislav Tereba.

See also

References
  1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. "Men's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  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.
  5. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.


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