Edit Urbán

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Edit Urbán (born March 27, 1961 ) is a Hungarian table tennis player who was four times European champion from 1982 to 1990.

Career

Edit Urbán played for the club BSE Budapest , with whom she won the ETTU Cup in the 1981/82 season . At the national Hungarian championships she won eight titles, singles in 1981 and 1989, doubles in 1988 and 1989 with Csilla Bátorfi and mixed in 1979 with Tibor Klampár , 1981 with Zsolt Kriston, 1986 with János Takács and 1989 with Iván Vitsek. From 1979 to 1991 she took part in six world championships , where she won bronze with the Hungarian women's team in 1987 and came fourth in 1989 and 1991 . In the European ranking tournament TOP-12 she reached second place behind Csilla Bátorfi in 1987.

Urbán has been nominated for European championships five times . Here she won four titles, namely in 1982 , 1986 and 1990 in team competition and in 1988 in doubles with Csilla Bátorfi . There are also bronze medals in 1984 in doubles (with Gabriella Szabó ) and in 1988 in mixed with the Swede Ulf Carlsson .

In the ITTF world rankings , she was ranked 17th in mid-1987. In 1992 she resigned from the Hungarian national team.

Career abroad

In 1989 Edit Urbán joined the Austrian association ATVS Judenburg. After returning to Hungary to Szekszárd, she moved to SV Neckarsulm in 1997, and a year later to TTC Karlsruhe-Neureut , which she helped advance to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2000. In 2001 she went to the 1st Palatinate League as a player coach for TTV Römerberg. Today (2018) she is active at the TTC Karlsruhe-Neureut.

She continued to enjoy international success in senior tournaments. In 2002 she became the senior world champion in the singles age group 40+. In 2001 and 2003 she won the singles title at the Senior European Championships age group 40+.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN European Championship 1990 Gothenburg SWE last 16 1
HUN European Championship 1988 Paris FRA gold Semifinals
HUN European Championship 1986 Prague TCH Quarter finals 1
HUN European Championship 1984 Moscow URS Semifinals
HUN European Championship 1982 Budapest HUN Quarter finals Quarter finals 1
HUN EURO TOP12 1989 Charleroi BEL 10
HUN EURO TOP12 1988 Ljubljana YUG 9
HUN EURO TOP12 1987 Basel SUI 2
HUN EURO TOP12 1986 Sodertalje SWE 11
HUN EURO TOP12 1985 Barcelona ESP 10
HUN EURO TOP12 1984 Bratislava TCH 6th
HUN Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR last 16 8th
HUN World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 64 last 32 last 64 4th
HUN World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 32 last 16 last 64 4th
HUN World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 16 last 16 last 32 3
HUN World Championship 1983 Tokyo JPN last 32 last 16 last 64 9
HUN World Championship 1981 Novi Sad YUG last 64 last 16 Agony 7th
HUN World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK last 32 last 64 last 64 5
HUN WTC World Team Cup 1990 Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig JPN 5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8, page 23
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1979/7 page 15
  3. ↑ Europe Top-12 archive (accessed January 24, 2016)
  4. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel; 171 kB), accessed on November 2, 2011
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/3 page 54
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/9 page 43
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8, page 23
  8. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1998/11 regional South Page 3
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/7 regional south page 1 + 2002/8 regional south page 9
  10. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 regional southwest page 11 + 2002/5 page 7
  11. ↑ TTC Karlsruhe-Neureut women's team 2017/2018 (accessed on May 8, 2018)
  12. ↑ Daily Mail Speyer July 1, 2002 (accessed November 2, 2011)
  13. ^ European veterans championships. ( Memento of November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 2, 2011
  14. ↑ Edit Urbán Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com
personal data
SURNAME Urbán, Edit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1961