Éva Kóczián

Éva Kóczián, later Kóczián-Földy (born May 25, 1936 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian table tennis player . She is three times European champion in singles and world champion in mixed.

successes

National

Éva Kóczián won the Hungarian national championship six times in singles (1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1967). There are also six titles in doubles and nine titles in mixed. She was part of a team that won the Hungarian championship eleven times:

• 1952 Budapest I.
• 1953 SZOT II.
• 1954 Vasas MÁVAG SK
• 1955 Vasas Budapest
• 1957–1962 Vörös Meteor Budapest
• 1964 Vörös MeteorBudapest

In 1959 - just like in 1966 - it took first place in the Hungarian rankings, and in 1960 and 1965 also first place in the European rankings.

World championships

From 1953 to 1967 she was nominated nine times for world championships . She came to the final in 1961 , which she lost to the Chinese Qiu Zhonghui . In 1955 she won the mixed world championship with Kálmán Szepesi . She reached the semi-finals in singles in 1954 , 1955 and 1959 , in doubles in 1967 with Erzsébet Jurik and in mixed 1953 with Laszlo Földy and 1963 with János Faházi . With the Hungarian team she won the silver medal in 1954 .

European championships

Kóczián was represented five times at European Championships , and she won six golds in the various disciplines. In 1958, 1960 and 1964 she won the singles title, in 1966 she reached the semi-finals. In doubles she won in 1966 with Erzsebet Jurik, which she had previously achieved in 1958 with Lívia Mossóczy and 1960 with Sárolta Máthé . With Ferenc Sidó , she won silver in mixed in 1958. In 1960 and 1966 she was European champion with the Hungarian team, in 1964 she finished second.

End of career

At the end of the 1960s, Kóczián ended her active career. In 1976 she became the coach of the women's team at Spartacus Budapest.

Private

Kóczián's brother József Kóczián was one of the top players in Hungary. On August 6, 1960, Kóczián married her former mixed partner Laszlo Földy and then appeared under the name Kóczián-Földy . When the marriage was divorced in 1966, she took her maiden name Kóczián again.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Quarter finals
HUN	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY	Semifinals	gold	Quarter finals	1
HUN	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE	gold			2
HUN	European Championship	1960	Zagreb	YUG	gold	silver	Quarter finals	1
HUN	European Championship	1958	Budapest	HUN	gold	silver	silver
HUN	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	Semifinals	last 16	3
HUN	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 32	last 32	last 64	5
HUN	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 128	Quarter finals	Semifinals	3
HUN	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	silver	Quarter finals	last 64	4th
HUN	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	Semifinals	last 16	last 16	4th
HUN	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	Quarter finals	last 16	last 16	4th
HUN	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	Semifinals	Quarter finals	gold	4th
HUN	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	Semifinals	last 16	last 32	2
HUN	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	last 32	Quarter finals	Semifinals	3

swell

• European Adult Championships (accessed January 11, 2016)
• Hungarian Team Championships ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 134 kB) (accessed on September 25, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/24 West issue page 4 + DTS 1960/5 page 12 + DTS 1965/6 page 17
2. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1976/2 Page 18
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/16 West issue, page 1
4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1966/6 Page 25
5. ↑ Éva Kóczián Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 6, 2011)

Web links

• Ian Marshall: A True and Gracious Legend, Happy Birthday Eva Koczian, 80 Years Old Today , May 25, 2016 article on ittf.com (accessed May 27, 2018)