Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
Angelica Rozeanu (birth name Adelstein ; born October 15, 1921 in Bucharest , Romania , † February 21, 2006 in Haifa , Israel ) was a Romanian athlete. With 17 World Cup titles, she is the most successful table tennis player in the world to date (2006). She has won the individual world championship six times and since 1955 has been the last European to win the women's individual world championship title.
Life
Angelica Adelstein was born in Bucharest in 1921 to a Jewish family. After the end of the Second World War , she married Lulu Rozeanu in 1945, and their daughter Mihaela (Miki) was born in the same year. The marriage ended in divorce in the late 1950s. She died in 2006 of complications from liver disease.
Sports
She started playing table tennis when she was 9 years old. She was a defender. As a 15-year-old she became Romanian champion for the first time in 1936. As a result, she won all the national Romanian championships up to and including 1957 (1940-1945 these were not held because of the war).
In 1937 she took part in a world championship for the first time and took 3rd place in mixed . In 1938 the fascist Romanian government forbade her to participate in the World Cup in London . In 1950 she became world champion in singles in Budapest . It was the first time that a Romanian female athlete won the world championship in any sport. She defended this title five times in a row at the following world championships. In addition, she won the gold medal three times in doubles, three times in mixed and five times with the Romanian women's team. The most successful World Cup was in 1953, when it won gold in all competitions. In the same year she beat Heinz Schneider in an official tournament . Angelica Adelstein was the last European to win the individual world championship in Utrecht in 1955 , after which Asian players dominated.
From 1950 to 1960 she was chairman of the Romanian table tennis association.
In 1957 her career was interrupted. An anti-Semitic functionary of the Romanian table tennis association pushed for the exclusion of Jewish athletes from the association. Angelica was now married to Lou Rozeanu and was called Angelica Rozeanu . In 1959 she got divorced. Her husband emigrated to Israel in February 1960 , but she has not yet followed him. Some time later, the anti-Semitic functionary was dismissed, and Angelica began again with the tournament sport. In 1960 she won 3 tournaments in Russia , the European Championship in doubles and the International Yugoslav Championship. In August of this year she moved to Israel with her 14-year-old daughter Mihaela, via Vienna, where she lived with her former husband until 1969. Here she was still active and won the 6th Maccabiad (sometimes also called the Jewish Olympiad ) in Tel Aviv in 1961 . From 1960 to 1962 she won the Israeli championship three times.
In 1969 she married Dr. Eliezer Lopacki († 1979).
Awards
In 1954 Angelica Rozeanu was awarded the title of "Honored Master" for her services as chairwoman of the TT Association, the highest honor in Romanian sport. Four times she received the (communist) honor “Order of Labor” from Romania. She has been a member of the Hall of Fame for Jewish Sports since 1981, and was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1995. On September 6, 2001, she became an honorary citizen of Haifa City .
family
Angelica Rozeanus nephew and niece Ilan and Ophir Herbst were European champions in Bridge in 2015. The niece Orly Herbst won the Israeli youth championship in show jumping in 1992, later she was second in the adults.
successes
- Participation in world championships
- 1937 in Baden : 3rd place mixed (with Géza Erős)
- 1939 in Cairo : 2nd place doubles (with Sári Szász-Kolozsvári ), 3rd place with the Romanian team
- 1948 in London : 3rd place singles, 4th place mixed (with Richard Bergmann ), 3rd place with the Romanian team
- 1950 in Budapest : 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Gizella Farkas , HUN), 3rd place mixed (with Ivan Andreadis ), 1st place with the Romanian. team
- 1951 in Vienna : 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Sári Szász-Kolozsvári ), 1st place mixed (with Bohumil Váňa , TCH), 1st place with the Romanian. team
- 1952 in Bombay : 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Ferenc Sidó , HUN), 2nd place with the Romanian. team
- 1953 in Bucharest : 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Gizella Farkas , HUN), 1st place mixed (with Ferenc Sidó , HUN), 1st place with the Romanian. team
- 1954 in London: 1st place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Gizella Farkas , HUN)
- 1955 in Utrecht : 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu ), 1st place with the Romanian team
- 1956 in Tokyo : 1st place doubles (with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu ), 1st place with the Romanian team
- 1957 in Stockholm : 3rd place doubles (with Helen Elliot , SCO), 2nd place with the Romanian team
- Participation in European championships
- 1958 in Budapest : 3rd place single, 1st place double (with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu ), 2nd place with team
- 1960 in Zagreb : 1st place doubles (with Maria Alexandru ), 3rd place with team
- National Romanian Championships
- 1936–1939: 1st place individual
- 1941–1957: 1st place individual
- Hungarian championships
- 1954: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Gizella Farkas )
- International tournaments
- 1954 Sweden: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu )
- 1955 Sweden: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu )
- 1957 Sweden: 2nd place doubles (with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu ), 2nd place mixed (with Tiberiu Harasztosi)
Results from the ITTF database
Association | competition | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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ROU | European Championship | 1960 | Zagreb | YUG | gold | silver | ||
ROU | European Championship | 1958 | Budapest | HUN | Semifinals | gold | Semifinals | 2 |
ROU | World Championship | 1957 | Stockholm | SWE | Quarter finals | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 2 |
ROU | World Championship | 1956 | Tokyo | JPN | last 32 | gold | last 16 | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | gold | gold | last 64 | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1954 | Wembley | CLOSELY | gold | Semifinals | last 64 | 4th |
ROU | World Championship | 1953 | Bucharest | ROU | gold | gold | gold | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1952 | Bombay | IND | gold | Quarter finals | gold | 2 |
ROU | World Championship | 1951 | Vienna | AUT | gold | silver | gold | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1950 | Budapest | HUN | gold | silver | Semifinals | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1948 | Wembley | CLOSELY | Semifinals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | 3 |
ROU | World Championship | 1939 | Cairo | EGY | Quarter finals | silver | last 16 | 3 |
ROU | World Championship | 1937 | to bathe | AUT | last 16 | Agony | Semifinals | 7th |
ROU | World Championship | 1936 | Prague | TCH | last 32 | no participants | last 16 |
philately
The following postmarks were used by the post office in Cluj-Napoca Romania:
- March 6, 1996: Special postmark with the image of Angelica Rozeanu
- December 14, 2006: Special postmark with the image of Angelica Rozeanu
literature
- Robert Slater: Great Jews Sport. Jonathan David Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0-8246-0453-9 , pages 239-240. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/9, page 5.
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1953/3, page 6.
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/16 West issue, page 1.
- ↑ SCI News 99, September 2015, page 25 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 27, 2015).
- ↑ Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 2, 2011).
Web links
- Biography on jewishsports.net (English)
- “Romanian-born table tennis great Rozeanu dies aged 84” (accessed August 10, 2012)
- Obituary "Angelica Rozeanu (1921-2006)"
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Adelstein-Rozeanu, Angelica |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rozeanu, Angelica |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest , Romania |
DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 2006 |
Place of death | Haifa , Israel |