Leah Neuberger

Leah Thall-Neuberger

File:Leah Neuberger.jpg
Personal information
Nationality	United States
Born	(1915-12-17)17 December 1915
Died	25 January 1993(1993-01-25) (aged 77)
Medal record Representing United States World Table Tennis Championships Bronze medal – third place 1947 Team Bronze medal – third place 1947 Doubles Bronze medal – third place 1948 Doubles Bronze medal – third place 1951 Singles Bronze medal – third place 1951 Doubles Gold medal – first place 1956 Mixed Doubles

Leah Thall-Neuberger (December 17, 1915 in Columbus, Ohio – January 25, 1993), nicknamed Miss Ping, was an American table tennis player. She was ranked the # 3 table tennis player in the world in 1951.

Table tennis career

Her six World Championship medals included a gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 1956 World Table Tennis Championships with Erwin Klein. Her partners for the three bronze medals in the doubles were Davida Hawthorn, Thelma Thall and Peggy Ichkoff respectively.

Neuberger won the United States national championships nine times as a single player, twelve times in doubles, and eight times in mixed doubles. She also won 41 times at the Canadian championships. She served on the Canadian team that travelled to the People’s Republic of China in 1971 on the Ping-Pong Diplomacy Tour. She also won two English Open titles.

Neuberger competed at the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Halls of Fame

Neuberger, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1999. She was also a member of the US Table Tennis Hall of Fame.

See also

• List of select Jewish table tennis players
• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

External links

• Jewish Sports bio