Éva Kóczián, later Kóczián-Földy (born May 25, 1936 in
Budapest
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) is a former female international
table tennis
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player from
Hungary
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.
Table tennis career
She won twelve medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
World Table Tennis Championships
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and in the
Table Tennis European Championships
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.
The twelve World Championship medals included a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
in the mixed doubles at the
1955 World Table Tennis Championships with
Kálmán Szepesi.
She also won four
English Open
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titles.
Personal life
Her brother
József Kóczián
József Kóczián (4 August 1926 – 10 December 2009) was a Hungarian table tennis player, who won three world championships during his career.
Table tennis career
Following the Second World War, he made his first World Championships appearan ...
was also a table tennis player.
She married fellow table tennis international
László Földy.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
Results of Hungarian table tennis players at Sport.hu
1936 births
Living people
Hungarian female table tennis players
Table tennis players from Budapest
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