Alex Agopoff
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 Alex Agopoff (on the left) and Eugène Bouchard | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  France | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 May 1918 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 25 August 2009 (aged 91) | ||||||||||||||
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Alexandre Agopoff (1918-2009), was a male French international table tennis player.[1]
At the beginning of his table tennis career, he won the French Championship during the German occupation, defeating the Lille-born player Eugène Bouchard, Champion of Flanders, in the final.[2]
He won a bronze medal at the 1947 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event). Three years later he won a second bronze at the 1950 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup.[3][4]
Agopoff won eleven titles at national French championships, 1945 in singles, 1939, 1939, 1945 and 1947 in doubles and 1939, 1946, 1949-1951 and 1957 in mixed.[5]
