Adolf Herskovic
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| Nationality |  Yugoslavia  Italy United States | |||||||||||
| Born | 30 April 1916 Zagreb | |||||||||||
| Died | 26 February 2011 (aged 94) California | |||||||||||
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Adolf Herskovic (later Allan Herskovic; 1916–2011) was a male Yugoslav international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
[edit]He won a silver medal at the 1939 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Žarko Dolinar, Ladislav Hexner, Tibor Harangozo and Max Marinko for Yugoslavia.[2][3]
He represented Italy from 1948 until 1950 before he changed his name to Allan from Adolf and emigrated to the United States where he captained the US team in 1974.[4]
Personal life
[edit]He was of Jewish descent and lost his parents and a sister in concentration camps during the war. He took refuge in Italy with some brothers but was arrested and interned in a camp in Cosenza where he was freed by the allies in 1943. In the United States he was a member of the Jewish Athletic Club and played soccer and gymnastics.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ "List of Gold and silver medal Winners". All About Table Tennis.
- ^ "History of USA Table Tennis". Team USA. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017.