Ferenc Soós

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Ferenc Soós (born June 10, 1919 in Budapest ; † February 5, 1981 there ) was a Hungarian table tennis player . He was one of the best players in the world from 1936 to 1950 and was four times world champion and four times vice world champion.

National successes

At the national Hungarian championships he won 17 titles:

  • Individual: 1941, 1946
  • Double:
    • 1939 with Jenő Schmiedl
    • 1940 with Jenő Schmiedl
    • 1943 with Károly Till
    • 1944 with Tibor Harangozo
    • 1946 with Ferenc Sidó
    • 1947 with Ferenc Sidó
    • 1948 with Ferenc Sidó
    • 1950 with Ferenc Sidó
  • Mixed:
  • Teams
    • 1940: Újpesti Torna Egylet
    • 1943: Weiss Manfréd Vállalatok Testgyakorló Köre
    • 1948: Mezőkémia Sport Egyesület
    • 1949: Mezőkémia Sport Egyesület
    • 1950: Központi Lombik Sport Kör

International success

From 1936 to 1950 Soós took part in seven world championships . Only in 1939 did Hungary stay away from the World Cup for political reasons. In 1938 and 1949 he won gold with the Hungarian team. In 1947 he won in mixed with Gizella Farkas , in 1950 in doubles with Ferenc Sidó . In 1948 he lost with the Englishman Adrian Haydon the final in doubles against Štípek / Váňa (TCH). He won silver with the Hungarian team in 1937 and 1950 . In 1950 he also reached the final in the singles, in which he was defeated by Richard Bergmann despite a 2-0 lead.

In the ITTF world rankings 1947/48 Soós took 6th place.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   silver  gold  last 16  2
HUN  World Championship  1949  Stockholm  SWE   Semifinals  last 32  last 64  1
HUN  World Championship  1948  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 16  silver  Quarter finals  9 
HUN  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  gold  5 
HUN  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 16  last 16  Quarter finals  1
HUN  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   Semifinals  Quarter finals  last 16  2
HUN  World Championship  1936  Prague  TCH   Semifinals  Semifinals  no participants   

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, Official Organ of the Lower Saxony Table Tennis Association 2005/4, p. 12.
  2. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 15, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
personal data
SURNAME Soós, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1981
Place of death Budapest