Vladimír Miko

Vladimír Miko (22 March 1943 - 30 December 2017), was a male former international table tennis player from Slovakia.[1]

Vladimír Miko
Personal information
Nationality Slovakia
Born(1943-03-22)22 March 1943
Krupina, Slovakia
Died30 December 2017(2017-12-30) (aged 74)
Prague, Czech Republic
Medal record
Representing  Czechoslovakia
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place1967doubles

Table tennis career

He won a bronze medal at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships with Jaroslav Staněk.[2][3]

He started playing in 1951 and was coached by Ladislav Štípek and Ludvík Vyhnanovský. He played in five European Championships, reached a world ranking of 9 and retired in 1970.[4]

He also won five English Open titles.

Coaching

He was the national coach of Luxembourg from 1971 to 1973, and then the national coach for Czechoslovakia until 1990.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  4. "Vladimir Miko, mainstay of Czechoslovakian success, passes away". ITTF. 9 January 2018.
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