Gizella 'Gizi' Farkas (18 November 1925 in
Miskolc
Miskolc ( , , ; Czech language, Czech and sk, Miškovec; german: Mischkolz; yi, script=Latn, Mishkoltz; ro, Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 (1 Jan 2014) Miskolc is the ...
– 17 June 1996 in
Vienna
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) 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 from Hungary.
Table tennis career
From 1947 to 1960 she won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
Table Tennis European Championships 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 m ...
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Farkas is recognised as one of the leading female players in the history of the sport. Of the 27 World Championship medals that she won they included ten
gold medals; three in the singles at the
1947 World Table Tennis Championships,
1948 World Table Tennis Championships and
1949 World Table Tennis Championships, three in the doubles and four in the mixed doubles.
Personal life
She married three times to László Fekete, Andorné Gervai and Mihály Lantos. From 1974 until her death, she lived in
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
.
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
1925 births
1996 deaths
Hungarian female table tennis players
Hungarian expatriates in Austria
Sportspeople from Miskolc
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