Sári Szász (married name Kolozsvári), (1922 – February 19, 2006) was a female 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
From 1950 to 1955 she won ten medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
World Table Tennis Championships
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.
The ten World Championship medals included four
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
s in the team event for Romania.
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
1922 births
2006 deaths
Romanian female table tennis players
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