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Erich Arndt (table tennis)

German tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ1351897 ↗
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Erich Arndt (18 May 1938 – 24 April 2026) was a German international table tennis player.

Biography

Arndt won a bronze medal at the 1963 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Ernst Gomolla, Dieter Michalek, Eberhard Schöler and Elmar Stegmann.

He also won two medals at the European Table Tennis Championships.

Arndt died on 24 April 2026, at the age of 87.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erich Arndt (table tennis)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.