Kerekes Ilona (born Sólyom; 25 October 1926 – October 2023) was a Hungarian 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.

Table tennis career

Kerekes won two medals in the

World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men ...

and three medals in the

Table Tennis European 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 ...

. Kerekes won two

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

s in 1950 and 1954 in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). Kerekes was also the runner-up in the European Championship final losing to

Éva Kóczián Éva Kóczián, later Kóczián-Földy (born May 25, 1936 in Budapest) is a former female international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career She won twelve medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Ch ...

in the final.

Death

Kerekes died in October 2023, at the age of 97.Elhunyt a vb-ezüstérmes Sólyom Ilona

References

1926 births 2023 deaths Hungarian female table tennis players Table tennis players from Budapest World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

Death

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