Lajos Dávid

Lajos Dávid - full name Lajos Leopold Dávid - (* 1913 in Budapest , † 1944 ) was a Hungarian table tennis player . In the 1930s he won eight medals at world championships .

Career

From 1929 to 1934 Lajos Dávid took part in six world championships for Hungary . He won the title four times with the Hungarian team, namely ( 1930 , 1931 , 1933 and 1934 ). In 1932 the team "only" came second. In 1931 he reached the semi-finals in singles, in 1931 and 1933 he won silver in doubles with István Kelen .

In 1930 he entered the International German Championships in Hanover. Here he won doubles with István Kelen . In 1933 he became national Hungarian individual champion.

In the ITTF world rankings in 1932 Dávid was ranked sixth.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	World Championship	1934	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 32	1
HUN	World Championship	1933	to bathe	AUT	last 16	silver	no participants	1
HUN	World Championship	1932	Prague	TCH	last 16	Quarter finals	no participants	2
HUN	World Championship	1931	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	silver	no participants	1
HUN	World Championship	1930	Berlin	FRG	Semifinals	Quarter finals	no participants	1
HUN	World Championship	1929	Budapest	HUN	last 64	Quarter finals	no participants

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 135
2. ↑ Hungarian Championships ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 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 on February 13, 2016) 
3. ↑ Brief portrait (accessed on February 13, 2016)
4. ↑ Lajos Dávid Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed February 13, 2016)