Bohumil VÃ¡Åˆa

Bohumil Váňa ( born January 17, 1920 in Prague, † November 4, 1989 ) was a Czech tennis players. He was 1938 and 1947 world champion in singles.

Career

Váňa came from a Prague locksmith family. At 9 years old he brought his older brother Václav in clubs and pubs in the table tennis game. His patron was Vendelín Vesely, who noticed his talent and took him to the renowned Wenceslas Square to the Prague club " Sparta ". In the club, which promoted specifically talented youth, he trained henceforth together with his great role model Stanislav Kolář, the Prague World Champion Doubles in 1936.

Váňa strength were its variable mark-ups and hard smashes his forehand.

Between 1935 and 1955 he participated in 12 World Championships. He won several gold medals: Twice in singles, three in men's doubles, and three times in the mixed doubles. Five times he was world champion with the Czech team. He was also 38 -fold Czechoslovak champion.

In 1955, he ended his career and received under condition of attending a training school of a job as a youth coach offered. Váňa refused. He was injured in his honor, as a 13-time world champion and multiple national champion not being able to train the youth even without visiting such a school and withdrew bitter. Also for the European Championship 1986 in Prague, he did not appear.

To 1977 Bohumil Váňa had moved with his wife in a house of the Prague bishopric court. Since 1987 he increasingly suffered from mental illness and had only a bishop Joseph Hrdlicka and Stanislav Kolář contact. Shortly before his 70th year, died Váňa, who was his life remained Non smoking, throat cancer and was buried in Prague- Motol.

Book

Váňa wrote ( before 1951 ) table tennis book Pět stupňů k mistrovství světa ( My way to become world champion five times ).

Achievements

Participating in 12 World Table Tennis Championships In London in 1935: 2nd place with team
1936 in Prague: 3.Place with team
1937 in Baden: 1st place Mixed ( with Vera Votrubcova ), 3rd place with team
1938 in London: 1st Single, 2nd place Mixed ( with Vera Votrubcova ), 3rd place with team
1939 in Cairo: 3rd place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Vera Votrubcova ), 1st place with team
1947 in Paris: 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Adolf Slar ), 1st place with team
In London in 1948: 2nd place individual, 1st place doubles (with Ladislav Štípek ), 2nd place Mixed ( with Vlasta Depetrisová ), 1st place with team
1949 in Stockholm: 2nd place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Ladislav Štípek ), 2nd place Mixed ( with Kveta Hruskova ), 2nd place with team
In Budapest in 1950: 3rd place doubles (with Ladislav Štípek ), 2nd place Mixed ( with Kveta Hruskova ), 1st place with team
1951 in Vienna: 1st doubles (with Ivan Andreadis ), 1st place Mixed ( with Angelica Adelstein - Rozeanu ), 1st place with team
1953 in Bucharest: 3rd place doubles (with Ivan Andreadis ), 3rd place with team
1955 in Utrecht: 2nd place with team

International Championships Sopot 1936 - 2nd place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Stanislav Kolar )
1937 Berlin - 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Götz Meschede )
1938 Krefeld - 2nd place individual, 1st place doubles (with Miloslav Hamer )
1939 England - 2nd place individual
1946 England - 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Adolf Slar )
1947 England - 1st place doubles (with Adolf Slar )

Results from the ITTF database

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