Ilona Kerekes
Appearance
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Nationality | Hungary | ||||||||||||||
Born | Bocșa, Romania | 25 October 1926||||||||||||||
Died | October 2023 (aged 97) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kerekes Ilona (born Sólyom; 25 October 1926 – October 2023) was a Hungarian international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
[edit]Kerekes won two medals in the World Table Tennis Championships and three medals in the Table Tennis European Championships.[2]
Kerekes won two silver medals in 1950 and 1954 in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event).[3][4]
Kerekes was also the runner-up in the European Championship final losing to Éva Kóczián in the final.[5]
Death
[edit]Kerekes died in October 2023, at the age of 97.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "List of Gold and silver medal Winners". All About Table Tennis.
- ^ "The Most Successful Hungarian Table Tennis Players". sportszertar.
- ^ "European Championship Special" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ Elhunyt a vb-ezüstérmes Sólyom Ilona (in Hungarian)