Lívia Mossóczy (May 9, 1936 – August 18, 2017) was a female international
table tennis
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player from
Hungary
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.
Table tennis career
From 1957 to 1960 she won several medals in single, double, and team events 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 ...
, three medals with the Hungarian team 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 ...
.
The World Championship medal was a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
won in the doubles at the
1957 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1957 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Stockholm from March 7 to March 15, 1957.
Medalists Team
Individual
References
External linksITTF Museum
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with
Agnes Simon.
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
2017 deaths
Hungarian female table tennis players
Sportspeople from Budapest
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