Shimcha Finkelstein
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| Native name | שמך פינקלשטין | ||||||||
| Nationality | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | ||||||||
| Born | 1917 | ||||||||
| Died | 1987 (aged 69–70) | ||||||||
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Shimcha Finkelstein (Hebrew: שמך פינקלשטין; 1917–1987), was a male Polish and Israeli international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
[edit | edit source]He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Samuel Schieff for Poland.[2][3]
He was Polish team champion for Hasmonea Warsaw and singles champion in 1937. He was of Jewish origin and before the war switched allegiance to Israel and won the first ever Israeli championship beating Mordecai Finberg in the final.[4]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]He left Poland in May 1937 via Romania to Israel. He retired in 1967, had three children and died in 1987.
See also
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Categories:
- Polish male table tennis players
- Israeli male table tennis players
- 1917 births
- 1987 deaths
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Warsaw
- Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
- 20th-century Polish sportsmen
- European table tennis biography stubs
- Polish sportspeople stubs