Mária Mednyánszky
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| Full name | Mária Mednyánszky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 April 1901 Budapest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 December 1978 (aged 77) Budapest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mária Mednyánszky (7 April 1901 Budapest – 22 December 1978 also Budapest) was a Hungarian international table tennis star.
Table tennis career
[edit]She became the first official women's world champion winning the women's singles event gold medal in the first edition of the World Table Tennis Championships, held in 1926 at London.[1] She went on to win the title for five successive years and won a further 18 world titles.[2] Only Angelica Rozeanu holds more women's singles titles than her.[2]
She won seven doubles titles including six consecutive wins with Anna Sipos.[2][3][4] She also won three English Open titles.
Awards
[edit]She was awarded the Golden Order of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1976, Hungary's highest sporting honour.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012.
- ^ a b c "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- Maria Mednyanszky ITTF Hall of Fame. Accessed September 2007
- Maria Mednyanszky at I GUINNESS DEL TENNISTAVOLO (Italian) Accessed Sept 2007
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