Péter Rózsás (1943 – 4 December 2024) was a Hungarian international
table tennis
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player.
Table tennis career
Rózsás won a
bronze medal
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in the Swaythling Cup (team event) at the
1961 World Table Tennis Championships for Hungary with
Zoltán Berczik,
László Földy
László Földy (30 September 1934 in Budapest – 17 February 2015 in Basel) was a male former Hungarian and Swiss international table tennis player.
He won six World Table Tennis Championship medals from 1953 to 1961. This consisted of four ...
,
Miklós Péterfy and
Ferenc Sidó.
He also won three
European Table Tennis Championships
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medals including two golds and two
English Open
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titles.
Death
Rózsás died in
Budapest
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on 4 December 2024, at the age of 81.
See also
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List of table tennis players
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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References
1943 births
2024 deaths
Hungarian male table tennis players
Table tennis players from Budapest
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
20th-century Hungarian sportsmen
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