Miklós Péterfy is a male former international

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player from

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Table tennis career

He won two medals at the

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from 1957 to 1961. He won a

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in the Swaythling Cup (team event) at the

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and a

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at the 1961 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) for Hungary.

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Table tennis career

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