Tibor Harangozo ( hu, Harangozó Tibor, sr-cyr, Тибор Харангозо) was a male Yugoslav 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
He won a
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 ...
at the
1939 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939.
Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing. Viktor Barna a ...
in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with
Žarko Dolinar
Žarko Dolinar (3 July 1920 – 9 March 2003), Ph.D., was a biologist and table tennis player who won eight medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.
He was born in a family of Slovene economic immigrants to Croatia. In 1939, at the age ...
,
Adolf Herskovic,
Ladislav Hexner and
Max Marinko for Yugoslavia.
Personal life
His younger brother
Vilim Harangozo
Vilim Harangozo ( hu, Harangozó Vilim, sr-cyr, Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian male former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.
Table tennis career
From 1951 to 1958 Harangozo won several medals in singles, doubles, an ...
(1925-1975) was also an international table tennis player.
In 1969 Tibor Harangozo opened a shop for table tennis accessories in Saarbrücken, Germany, which was named
Tibhar after him.
Tibhar Tibor Harangozo GmbH has since become one of the main global table tennis brands
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
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Yugoslav table tennis players
1922 births
1978 deaths
World Table Tennis Championships medalists