Laszlo Foldy

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László Földy (born September 30, 1934 in Budapest , † February 17, 2015 in Basel ) was a Swiss table tennis player of Hungarian descent. He was twice team European champion with Hungary.

Career in Hungary

Földy started playing table tennis at the age of 14. In 1952 he was appointed to the national team; a year later he was used for the first time in an international match against China. In total, he played 100 times for the Hungarian national team. Between 1953 and 1963 he took part in the world championships seven times with Hungary , and was runner- up with the team in 1957 and 1959 . At the 1959 World Cup, he reached the semi-finals in doubles with Zoltán Berczik .

In 1958 and 1960 he was European team champion .

At national championships he was Hungarian doubles champion twice, in 1958 with Zoltán Bubonyi , in 1959 with Zoltán Berczik . In 1959 he also won the mixed competition with Éva Kóczián . He won the team championship in 1953 with Szot II and in 1961 and 1963 with Vörös Meteor .

Career in Switzerland

After a two-year stint in Iran and Greece as national coach, Földy moved to Switzerland in 1969 and joined the Baslerdybli club. Until 1980 he worked as a player-coach for the Swiss national team, at the end of 1976 he replaced Eric Pohoralek (Bern) as the official national coach. With this he took part in five world championships between 1971 and 1979. With Rapid Geneva he won the Swiss Cup in 1976.

In 1979 he founded (a district of the club TTC Liebrüti Kaiseraugst in Canton Aargau ), with whom he up in the National League A rising.

In 1996 he went to the Olympic Games in Atlanta as a coach with his player Tu Dai Yong . She reached the last sixteen.

In 2006 Földy ended his active career for health reasons. In the same year the Swiss Table Tennis Association awarded him honorary membership.

Private

Until his retirement in 1994, Földy worked for 25 years as an IT organizer at Hoffmann La Roche in Basel. On August 6, 1960 he married the mixed world champion from 1955 Éva Kóczián . This marriage ended in divorce in 1966. Since 1967 he was married to the table tennis player Theresia , who was multiple Swiss champion in mixed as well as women's doubles and singles. His younger sister Marta also plays table tennis. He has two daughters Carolin and Evelyn .

Sister Marta

Földy's sister Marta Stretton emigrated to Australia in 1957 and now lives in South Africa. She has three children. By 1978 she won the African championship twelve times in Johannesburg.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN European Championship 1960 Zagreb YUG Semifinals Quarter finals 1
HUN European Championship 1958 Budapest HUN last 16 Quarter finals 1
SUI World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK Agony Agony no participants 25th
SUI World Championship 1977 Birmingham CLOSELY Agony Agony last 64 30th
SUI World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 64 last 64 last 64 29
SUI World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG last 64 Agony Agony 33
SUI World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN Rd 1 no participants no participants
HUN World Championship 1963 Prague TCH last 32 last 64 last 128 9
HUN World Championship 1961 Beijing CHN last 64 last 32 last 16 3
HUN World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 32 Semifinals last 16 2
HUN World Championship 1957 Stockholm SWE last 16 last 32 last 32 2
HUN World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED last 16 last 64 last 16 3
HUN World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY last 16 last 128 last 32 4th
HUN World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU last 128 last 16 Semifinals

literature

  • Andreas W. Schmid: Basel sports greats - and what has become of them , Basler Zeitung of December 30, 2000, page 45
  • Laszlo Földy, a table tennis ace , DTS magazine , 1974/13 pp. 12-13
  • Swiss magazine TOPSPIN 2005/2006, issue 4 page 27

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hungarian Team Championships 1925-2004 ( Memento from March 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 22, 2012; PDF; 102 kB)
  2. ↑ Tischtennis aktuell (magazine by Tibor Harangozo ) March 1969 page 12
  3. ^ DTS magazine , 1970/1 issue Süd-West, page 53
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1977/1 edition south-west side 29
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/8 page 28
  6. ↑ Report in the Basler Zeitung of October 2, 2006, sport.region, page 40 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 22, 2012; PDF; 102 kB)
  7. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1960/16 edition west side 1 + DTS 1966/6 Page 25
  8. ↑ Pictures from Laszlo Földy's goodbye party ( Memento from April 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 30, 2015)
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/4 West issue, page 1
  10. ↑ DTS magazine , 1978/9 page 15
  11. ↑ Laszlo Földy results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 6, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Foldy, Laszlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Földy, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss table tennis player of Hungarian descent
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2015
Place of death Basel