Bela Mesaros

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Bela Mesaros , ( Hungarian : Béla Mészáros , born April 6, 1952 ) is a Serbian table tennis player and chess player of Hungarian descent. In the early 1980s he was "the best European defender for years". At times he was among the forty best players in the world.

Life

Mesaros was a defender. As a Yugoslav national player, he completed about 100 missions for the Yugoslav national team. In 1982 he won bronze with the Yugoslav team in the European Championship , with his club Spartak Subotica he won the European Cup in 1977 and 1981 . Then he was the coach of the Serbian national team in table tennis. He completed other international assignments at the European Championships in 1974 , 1982 , 1984 and 1986 as well as at the World Championships in 1973 , 1981 , 1983 and 1985 .

Mesaros has been playing for various clubs in Germany for 30 years: in 1982 he moved from Spartak Subotica to the Bundesliga at TTC Altena . Further stations were Spvg Steinhagen (1983/84), TTC Heusenstamm (1984–1986), SSV Reutlingen 05 (1986/87), and FTG Frankfurt (from 1987). For twelve years he played table tennis for FC Bayern Munich (1994–2007), then he went to a club in Fürstenfeldbruck . Currently (2012) he plays for SC Gröbenzell.

Mesaros lives in Subotica , where he works as a trainer.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
YUG  Balkan Championship  1984  Athens  GRE   gold      1
YUG  Balkan Championship  1981  Constanza  ROU   gold  gold    1
YUG  Balkan Championship  1980  Varna  BUL   silver      1
YUG  Balkan Championship  1976  Samsun  DOOR         1
YUG  Balkan Championship  1974  Athens  GRE         1
YUG  Balkan Championship  1973  Sombor  YUG         1
YUG  European Championship  1984  Moscow  URS       Quarter finals   
YUG  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   last 128  Scratched  Agony  6th 
YUG  World Championship  1983  Tokyo  JPN   last 128  last 64  last 64  9 
YUG  World Championship  1981  Novi Sad  YUG   Agony  Scratched  no participants  7th 
YUG  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   Agony  last 32  no participants   

Results from the FIDE database

Mesaros (Mészáros) is also FIDE champion in chess. At the World Chess Federation FIDE he is listed under the name Bela Meszaros. His highest rating was 2355 in 1990, currently (as of July 2016) he has an Elo rating of 2232. Mesaros (Mészáros) won the Subotica open championship in February 2004 and the same tournament again in February 2008.

literature

  • Andreas Liebmann: 870 kilometers: Bela Mesaros was once the best European defender in table tennis. The Serb has been commuting between Subotica and clubs in Germany for 30 years. The 60-year-old was recently promoted to SC Gröbenzell - in the ninth division , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung September 27, 2012. Online (accessed December 3, 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/8 p. 10
  2. ↑ see literature, SZ of September 27, 2012
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/1 p. 20
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1982/11 p. 34
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1983/8 p. 26
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/5 p. 28
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/6 p. 18
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/5 p. 22
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/9 regional south p. 1
  10. ↑ Men's team of Bayern Munich, 2006/07 season (accessed December 3, 2012)
  11. ↑ Bela Mesaro's results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed December 3, 2012)
  12. ↑ Open Ch.of Subotica 2004 (accessed December 5, 2012)
  13. ↑ Open Subotica Chmp 2008 (accessed December 5, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Mesaros, Bela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meszaros, Bela (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1952