Carmen Crișan is a female former international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player from

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. She was born on December 28, 1951, the only child of Tiberiu and Elisabeta Crișan in Homorod, Romania, while the family was in internal exile due to her father's political affiliations. In 1967 and 1968 she won the Girls' Singles at the European Table Tennis Championships. In 1974 she graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the Bucharest Polytechnic University. The same year she married Romanian Davis Cup player Toma Ovici.

Table tennis career

She won a

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at the

1969 World Table Tennis Championships The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Munich from April 17 to April 27, 1969. It was the 30th edition to be contested. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism and we ...

in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with

Maria Alexandru Maria Alexandru (née Golopența) (born 30 December 1939 in Plugova) is a former Romanian table tennis player. Table tennis career From 1957 to 1980 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Champio ...

and

Eleonora Mihalca Eleonora Mihalca (married name Vlaicov; born 1945), is a female former international table tennis player from Romania. Table tennis career She won two silver medals at the World Table Tennis Championships; one in the Corbillon Cup (women's team ...

. She was ranked world number 13 in 1969 and also won two

European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ever ...

medals.

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Romanian female table tennis players Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Romania-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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