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

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

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. 1 2 "Vladimir Miko, mainstay of Czechoslovakian success, passes away". ITTF. 9 January 2018.
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