Vladimír Miko
Slovak table tennis player
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Vladimír Miko (22 March 1943 – 30 December 2017) was a Slovak table tennis player.[1]
Nationality
Slovakia
Born22 March 1943
Krupina, Slovakia
Died30 December 2017 (aged 74)
Prague, Czech Republic
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| Died | 30 December 2017 (aged 74) Prague, Czech Republic | |||||||||||
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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]