Zsolt Kriston (born February 12, 1961) is a male former 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 from Hungary. 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

1981 World Table Tennis Championships The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) from April 14 to April 26, 1981. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Champions ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with

Gábor Gergely Gábor Gergely (born 21 June 1953, in Budapest) is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career From 1974 to 1983 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Cham ...

István Jónyer István Jónyer (born 4 August 1950 in Miskolc) is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career He was one of the most dominant players of the sport in the 1970s and famous for inventing the sidespin loop sho ...

Tibor Klampár Tibor Klampár (born 30 April 1953) is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career From 1970 to 1982 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in ...

and Tibor Kreisz for Hungary. Two years later he won a

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

at the

1983 World Table Tennis Championships The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo. between 28 April–9 May 1983. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Gergely, Jónyer,

Zoltán Káposztás Zoltan Kaposztas is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. He won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Gábor Gergely, István Jónyer, Zsolt Kriston ...

and

János Molnár János Molnár is a former international table tennis player from Hungary. He won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Gábor Gergely, István Jónyer, Zsolt Kriston and Zolt� ...

. He also won a

European Table Tennis 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 ...

gold medal in 1982, and competed in the men's doubles event at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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1961 births Living people Hungarian male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists Olympic table tennis players for Hungary Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub

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