Gabriella Wirth

Gabriella Wirth (born July 5, 1971 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian table tennis player . At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, it was among the best in Europe.

youth

Left-handed Gabriella Wirth came to table tennis at the age of six. She joined the Statisztika Budapest association. In 1986 she won three titles at the European Schools Championship, namely in singles, doubles (with Judit Marosi) and with the team. A year later she won the singles and doubles competition again (with Vivien Ello).

At the European Youth Championships she won titles in doubles with Agnes Hegedus in 1988 and singles in 1989, doubles with her sister Veronika and with the team. In 1989, she took first place in the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 .

Adults

Gabriella Wirth caused a sensation for the first time in 1990 when she was nominated as a substitute for the ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 and won this tournament straight away. A year later she reached second place behind Mirjam Hooman .

From 1988 to 1992 she was represented at three European championships . In 1990 she was European champion in doubles with Csilla Bátorfi and with the Hungarian team. She was twice European runner-up, in 1990 in mixed with Jean-Michel Saive and in 1992 in doubles (with Csilla Bátorfi) (despite months of depressive illness).

In 1989, 1991 and 1995 she took part in world championships . In 1991 she reached the quarter-finals in doubles.

Private

Gabriella Wirth has a sister named Veronika who is one year younger than her, who achieved some success in European competitions in the late 1980s.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER		silver
HUN	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE	Semifinals	gold	silver	1
HUN	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	last 16
HUN	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1986	Louvin La Neuve	BEL	gold	gold		1
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1989	Kockelschever	LUX	gold	gold		1
HUN	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1988	Novi Sad	YUG	Semifinals	gold
HUN	EURO TOP12	1991	Hertogenbosch	NED	2
HUN	EURO TOP12	1990	Hanover	FRG	1
HUN	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 128	last 32	last 64	7th
HUN	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	Quarter finals	last 32	4th
HUN	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 16	last 32	4th
HUN	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		Quarter finals
HUN	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				5

swell

• ms / Mihaly Kozak: It keeps getting better , DTS magazine , 1989/9 page 16
• Mihaly Kozak: A star goes up , DTS magazine , 1990/2 page 11
• sue: 26 years ago , description of the depression, table tennis magazine , 2018/12, page 53

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/3 page 10 + 1992/11 page 39 + 2009/9 page 17
2. ^ ITTF statistics ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 17, 2011)