| Alojzy Ehrlich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Aloizy Ehrlich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1914 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 December 1992 (aged 78) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alojzy "Alex" Ehrlich (1 January 1914 – 7 December 1992), also called "King of the Chiselers," was a Polish table tennis player, widely regarded as one of the best players in Polish history of this sport,[1] who three times won silver in the World Championships.[2]
Ehrlich was ranked world No. 6 in 1938 by Hon. Ivor Montagu and world No. 9 in 1950.[3]
He was a very popular athlete in interbellum Poland; in 1934 Ehrlich was placed on the 8th position in the prestigious list of 10 most popular sportsmen of Poland, made by readers of the national sports daily Przeglad Sportowy.[4]
- ^ (in Polish) [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ André Damman. "History of ITTF Rankings 1926-1986" (PDF). ittf.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ (in Polish) [2] Archived 2007-10-30 at the Wayback Machine