Sol Schiff
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Full name | Solomon Joseph Schiff | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1917-06-28)28 June 1917 Manhattan, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 26 February 2012(2012-02-26) (aged 94) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Solomon Joseph Schiff (June 28, 1917 – February 26, 2012)[1] was a Jewish-American table tennis player from New York.
He attended Textile High School in New York City.[2]
Table tennis career
Schiff was a six-time U.S. Open Men's Doubles champion, and nine-time U.S. Mixed Doubles champion.[3] In 1936, he won the U.S. Men's Singles title.[3]
From 1937 to 1947, he won four medals in doubles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[4][5] The four World Championship medals[6] included two gold medals; one in the doubles with Jimmy McClure at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships and one in the team event at the 1937 World Table Tennis Championships.[7][8]
He also won an English Open title.
He was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame.[2] He was also inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Sol Schiff, 'Mr. Table Tennis,' Dies at 94". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Solomon "Sol" Schiff, born June 28, 1917". Teamusa.org. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Sol Schiff". Jewishsports.net. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
- ^ "Sports 123: Table Tennis". Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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- 1928: Alfred Liebster & Robert Thum (AUT)
- 1929: Viktor Barna & Miklós Szabados (HUN)
- 1930: Viktor Barna & Miklós Szabados (HUN)
- 1931: Viktor Barna & Miklós Szabados (HUN)
- 1932: Viktor Barna & Miklós Szabados (HUN)
- 1933: Viktor Barna & Sándor Glancz (HUN)
- 1934: Viktor Barna & Miklós Szabados (HUN)
- 1935: Viktor Barna & Miklós Szabados (HUN)
- 1936: Robert Blattner & James McClure (USA)
- 1937: Robert Blattner & James McClure (USA)
- 1938: James McClure & Sol Schiff (USA)
- 1939: Viktor Barna & Richard Bergmann (ENG)
- 1947: Adolf Šlár & Bohumil Váňa (TCH)
- 1948: Ladislav Štípek & Bohumil Váňa (TCH)
- 1949: Ivan Andreadis & František Tokár (TCH)
- 1950: Ferenc Sidó & Ferenc Soos (HUN)
- 1951: Ivan Andreadis & Bohumil Váňa (TCH)
- 1952: Norikazu Fujii & Tadaaki Hayashi (JPN)
- 1953: József Kóczián & Ferenc Sidó (HUN)
- 1954: Žarko Dolinar & Vilim Harangozo (YUG)
- 1955: Ivan Andreadis & Ladislav Štípek (TCH)
- 1956: Ichiro Ogimura & Yoshio Tomita (JPN)
- 1957: Ivan Andreadis & Ladislav Štípek (TCH)
- 1959: Teruo Murakami & Ichiro Ogimura (JPN)
- 1961: Nobuya Hoshino & Koji Kimura (JPN)
- 1963: Wang Zhiliang & Zhang Xielin (CHN)
- 1965: Xu Yinsheng & Zhuang Zedong (CHN)
- 1967: Hans Alsér & Kjell Johansson (SWE)
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- 1971: István Jónyer & Tibor Klampár (HUN)
- 1973: Stellan Bengtsson & Kjell Johansson (SWE)
- 1975: Gábor Gergely & István Jónyer (HUN)
- 1977: Li Zhenshi & Liang Geliang (CHN)
- 1979: Antun Stipančić & Dragutin Šurbek (YUG)
- 1981: Cai Zhenhua & Li Zhenshi (CHN)
- 1983: Zoran Kalinić & Dragutin Šurbek (YUG)
- 1985: Mikael Appelgren & Ulf Carlsson (SWE)
- 1987: Chen Longcan & Wei Qingguang (CHN)
- 1989: Steffen Fetzner & Jörg Roßkopf (FRG)
- 1991: Peter Karlsson & Thomas von Scheele (SWE)
- 1993: Lü Lin & Wang Tao (CHN)
- 1995: Lü Lin & Wang Tao (CHN)
- 1997: Kong Linghui & Liu Guoliang (CHN)
- 1999: Kong Linghui & Liu Guoliang (CHN)
- 2001: Wang Liqin & Yan Sen (CHN)
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- 2005: Kong Linghui & Wang Hao (CHN)
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- 2009: Chen Qi & Wang Hao (CHN)
- 2011: Ma Long & Xu Xin (CHN)
- 2013: Chen Chien-an & Chuang Chih-yuan (TPE)
- 2015: Xu Xin & Zhang Jike (CHN)
- 2017: Fan Zhendong & Xu Xin (CHN)
- 2019: Ma Long & Wang Chuqin (CHN)
- 2021: Mattias Falck & Kristian Karlsson (SWE)
- 2023: Fan Zhendong & Wang Chuqin (CHN)
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