Jeff Ingber

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Jeff Ingber
Personal information
Nationality England
Born(1935-09-17)17 September 1935
Manchester, England
Died7 July 2019(2019-07-07) (aged 83)

Jeff Ingber (17 September 1935 – 7 July 2019) was an English international table tennis player.

Table tennis career[edit]

He first played in the Junior singles at the 1947 English Open.[1]

He competed at the World Table Tennis Championships, in the Swaythling Cup during 1959 and 1961 for England.[2][3][4]

He won several gold medals at the Maccabiah Games, and at the 1969 Maccabiah Games won a silver medal in men's singles and a gold medal in mixed doubles with Irene Ogus.[5][1] He reached the 1961 English Open final of the mixed doubles.[1]

Personal life[edit]

He was born in Manchester and was Jewish.[1]

He died on 7 July 2019.[6]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Jeff Ingber interview". jewishrenaissance.
  2. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  3. ^ "1959 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  4. ^ "1961 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  5. ^ "FOX GAINS FINAL AT TEL AVIV NET; Pam Richmond Also Victor in Maccabiah Games". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
  6. ^ "Jeff Ingber, one the earliest junior internationals passes away". ITTF. 16 July 2019.