Csilla Bátorfi (born 3 March 1969 in
Szombathely
Szombathely (; german: Steinamanger, ; see also other alternative names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by t ...
) is a
Hungarian 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. She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1988 (when the sport first appeared at the Games) to 2004. She won several titles in
European Championships.
She is the first female table tennis player to compete at five Olympics. Six men share this honor with her: Swede
Jörgen Persson, Croatian
Zoran Primorac, Belgian
Jean-Michel Saive, Serbian-American
Ilija Lupulesku
Ilija Lupulesku ( sr-cyr, Илија Лупулеску; born October 30, 1967) is a former Serbian and later American table tennis player who competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in ...
, Swede
Jan-Ove Waldner, and German
Jörg Roßkopf.
She was named
Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year
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List of winners
Statistics
Individual winners of three or mor ...
in 1986 after becoming European champion the same year.
See also
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List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
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References
1969 births
Living people
Hungarian female table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players of Hungary
Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Szombathely
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