Gizella Farkas

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Gizella "Gizi" Farkas (born November 20, 1925 in Miskolc , † June 17, 1996 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian table tennis player . She was three times world champion in singles.

Beginnings

Gizella Farkas started playing table tennis at the age of 10 under the guidance of her father. In 1940 she became the Hungarian champion. In the same year she won a tournament in Baden near Vienna against former world champion Trude Pritzi .

World championships

From 1947 to 1949 Farkas won the individual title three times in a row. There is also three gold in doubles and four gold in mixed. From 1950 to 1953 she reached the final four times, which she lost each time against the Romanian Angelica Rozeanu . She took silver once in doubles and four times with the Hungarian team.

After the final at the 1949 World Cup, Farkas was arrested by the police. She was accused of stealing mezei in Gothenburg with Erzsebet. The Hungarian table tennis association then ordered the players back to Budapest during the World Cup.

European championships

Farkas took part in European championships twice. In 1958 she won the mixed title and in 1960 with the Hungarian women's team.

Others

In the ITTF world rankings 1947/48 Farkas finished 1. Because of her success she was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1995.

Private

Gizella Farkas worked as a civil servant in the Hungarian Ministry of Education. She later moved to Vienna, where she lived until the end. She had a brother named Zoltan. She married several times, for the first time a few years before 1951, and performed under the names Fekete , Gervai (second marriage in late 1951) and Lantos .

successes

TT world championships

TT European Championships

  • 1958: Gold in mixed (with Zoltán Berczik )
  • 1960: Gold with the Hungarian team

National Hungarian Championships

Farkas won the Hungarian championships 15 times in singles, 16 times in doubles and 13 times in mixed.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN  European Championship  1960  Zagreb  YUG   Quarter finals  Semifinals  Quarter finals  1
HUN  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   Quarter finals  Semifinals  gold   
HUN  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   Quarter finals  last 32  Semifinals  4th 
HUN  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 16  Semifinals  gold  2
HUN  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   silver  gold  Semifinals  3
HUN  World Championship  1952  Bombay  IND   silver  Semifinals  Semifinals  5 
HUN  World Championship  1951  Vienna  AUT   silver  Semifinals  last 16  5 
HUN  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   silver  silver  gold  2
HUN  World Championship  1949  Stockholm  SWE   gold  gold  gold  3
HUN  World Championship  1948  Wembley  CLOSELY   gold  Quarter finals  Quarter finals  2
HUN  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   gold  gold  gold  2

philately

The following postmark was used by the post office in Cluj-Napoca Romania: December 12, 1996: Special postmark with a picture of the table tennis player Gizi Farkas.

swell

  • edrg .: The world's best women , DTS magazine , 1951/21 issue West-Süd page 2
  • Gizi Farkas is no longer alive , DTS magazine , 1996/9 page 34

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS 1996 writes in issue 9 (September): ... in Vienna. Gizella Farkas died there a few weeks ago, at the age of 71. - The Swedish-language Wikipedia gives "September 9, 1996" as the date of death
  2. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin (official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association) 2004/12 page 6
  3. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin - official organ of the TT-Verband Niedersachsen, 2005/4 page 12
  4. ↑ Tim Boggan : Bobby Fields (accessed on November 28, 2013) ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.teamusa.org
  5. ↑ 1947 - Tim Boggan (accessed November 28, 2013)
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1952/1 issue West-Süd page 2 + "The Times", April 10, 1954 and February 25, 1956
  7. ↑ Husband was the Hungarian soccer player Miahly Lantos - DTS magazine , 1957/10 West issue page 16; European Championships for Adults ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 11, 2016) and The Times, April 4, 1959 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ettu.org
  8. ↑ Gizella Farka's results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Farkas, Gizella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farkas, Gizi; Fekete, gizella; Gervai, Gizella; Lantos, Gizella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1996
Place of death Vienna