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Kálmán Szepesi (13 January 1930 – 29 September 1992) was a male former international
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player from
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Table tennis career

He won several medals in doubles, and team events in the
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in 1951 to 1955. Szepesi's five World Championship medals included two
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s; one in the team event and one in the mixed doubles at the
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with
Éva Kóczián Éva Kóczián, later Kóczián-Földy (born May 25, 1936 in Budapest) is a former female international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career She won twelve medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis C ...
. He also won an
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title.


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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References

1930 births 1992 deaths Hungarian male table tennis players 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub