Magyar Asztalitenisz Szövetség
Magyar Asztalitenisz Szövetség is the top organization of Hungarian table tennis . The seat of the association is Budapest , the current president is Fülöp Benedek, general secretary is Judit Faragó (December 2006) .
Hungary has long been one of the leading nations in table tennis.
Time before the association was founded
Table tennis was introduced in Hungary around 1900. At that time, the former General Secretary of the Hungarian Tennis Association, Janos Kertesz, brought table tennis games from England to Hungary. In 1900 the first club tournament was held in the national casino. It was a closed tournament in which mostly nobles took part. The tournament was repeated in 1901 in the "Athletic Club".
The game later became known in middle-class circles. In 1902 the English soccer player Edward Shires, a typewriter representative, moved from Vienna to Budapest and showed the new game of table tennis for the first time. There were many interested parties. In 1905 the first Hungarian championship was held, in which Béla Redlich won. Another seven championships took place before the association was founded.
Foundation of the association
In autumn 1924 11 representatives of table tennis clubs founded the Hungarian National Association of Table Tennis Players . Among the founding members were Endre Nattán (* July 26, 1904, † March 31, 1980), who later became Secretary General, Dániel Pécsi , Gyula Zuranyi, Zoltán Mechlovits and Roland Jacobi .
A year later the first national team championship was held; In the first international match, Hungary defeated Austria 11-5. In 1926, Hungary was one of the nations that promoted the establishment of the World Table Tennis Association, ITTF .
After the Second World War, the association was brought back to life on April 11, 1945 by György Lakatos and Ferenc Verebelyi.
International success
At the first World Cup in London in 1926 , Hungary won all titles:
- Men's teams: gold medal
- Men's singles: gold: Roland Jacobi , silver: Zoltán Mechlovits
- Women's singles: Gold: Mária Mednyánszky
- Men's doubles: Gold: Roland Jacobi / Dániel Pécsi ; Silver: Zoltán Mechlovits / Béla von Kehrling
- Mixed: Gold: Zoltán Mechlovits / Mária Mednyánszky ; Silver: Roland Jacobi / G. Gleeson (ENG)
In the world championships before World War II, Hungary was the most successful nation with 50 gold medals. Even after the war, Hungary was one of the strongest countries in Europe for a long time.
Most successful players
The most successful players include Victor Barna (22 gold medals at world championships), Miklós Szabados (15 gold medals) and Ferenc Sidó (9 gold medals).
Other well-known athletes are listed in the "Table tennis players (Hungary)" category .
National championships
literature
- Karl Schaper: Hungarian Association 50 years old , DTS magazine , 1974/21 pages 20–22
- György Lakatos : Hungarian Jubilee - 50 Years On , Table Tennis News, No. 67, December 1974, pages 21–22 (English) Online (accessed July 26, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ György Lakatos (Budapest) in The Table Tennis Collector 6 page 3 ( PDF )
- ↑ Endre Nattán ( Memento of the original from March 6, 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.
- ↑ Portrait on the website of TTC Berlin eastside ( memento of the original from July 22, 2014 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 November 13, 2011)
Web links
- Association website (Hungarian)
- National Hungarian Championships 1925 - 2007 (accessed December 23, 2018)
- Hungarian Team Championships 1905-2007 (accessed December 23, 2018)
- History (accessed January 1, 2019)