Ivan Andreadis

Ivan Andreadis
Full name Ivan Andreadis
Nationality  Czechoslovakia
Playing style Shakehand grip

Ivan Andreadis (3 April 1924- 27 October 1992) was a former Czechoslovak international table tennis player.

Table tennis career

He won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1947 to 1957.[1]

His 27 World Championship medals[2][3] included nine gold medals; four in the team event, four in the doubles with František Tokár, Bohumil Váňa and Ladislav Štípek respectively and one in the mixed doubles with Gizi Farkas.[4][5]

He also won three English Open titles.

He was of Greek-Jewish origin.[6]

Hall of Fame

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

He worked as a railway planning official in the CKD Sokolovo works in Prague.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ITTF database: Ivan Andreadis".
  2. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  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. ↑ "Czechoslovakian Table Tennis Association" (PDF). Degruyter.com.
  7. ↑ "ITTF Hall of Fame" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  8. ↑ "Veterans Lead" (PDF). Table Tennis England.


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