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, who three times won silver in the World Championships.
Ehrlich was ranked world No. 6 in 1938 by Hon. Ivor Montagu and world No. 9 in 1950.
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.