Vilim Harangozo ( hu, Harangozó Vilim, sr-cyr, Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian male former

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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Table tennis career

From 1951 to 1958 Harangozo won several medals in singles, doubles, 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 ...

and 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 ...

. His four World Championship medals included a

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in the doubles at the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships 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 ...

. He also won three

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titles.

Football

Harangozo also played as

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FK Spartak Subotica Fudbalski klub Spartak Ždrepčeva Krv () is a professional football club from Subotica, Serbia, that plays in the Serbian SuperLiga. The club was founded in 1945 and was named after Jovan Mikić Spartak, the leader of the Partisans in Subotic ...

in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

during the late 1940s. He scored the first ever first league goal of Spartak and it was against giants

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

. He also played with FK Bratstvo Subotica in the 1948–49 season.Lučonoše Jugoslovenskog fudbala - Monografija FK Bačka Subotica 1901-2001
pag. 57

Personal life

His older brother Tibor Harangozo (1922–1978) was also an international table tennis player.

Table tennis career

Football

Personal life

References

See also