Adalbert Rethi

Adalbert Rethi (born May 6, 1943 in Sfântu Gheorghe ; † October 14, 2008 in Hungary) was a Romanian table tennis player . He participated in five world championships.

Career

Adalbert Rethi was discovered and promoted by the Romanian trainer Farkas Paneth at an early age and recruited for the CSM Cluj-Napoca club. Rethi achieved his first international success at the European Youth Championships in 1959, where he won the double competition together with Radu Negulescu . At the European Youth Championship in 1962, he won bronze in singles and silver in doubles.

At the Romanian national championships for adults he won at least 16 titles in the 1960s, three of them in singles, four in doubles with Radu Negulescu , one in mixed with Eleonora Vlaicov and several in team competition with the men's team of CSM Cluj, with which he also won the European Cup five times . From 1959 to 1967 he took part in five world championships and several European championships . In 1964 he was awarded the title of Master of Sports .

After 1968, no more international activities in Rethi are known.

Private

Adalbert Rethi was the second son of an officer's family. After attending high school in Mures, he studied law at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca , received his doctorate and became a lawyer. He married for the first time in 1972 and moved to Cegléd in Hungary. He later married a second time. In 2008 he died after a long illness and left two children.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	Balkan Championship	1968	Skopje	YUG		silver	gold
ROU	Balkan Championship	1967	Antalya	DOOR		gold	silver
ROU	Balkan Championship	1965	Sofia	BUL	silver	silver		1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1964	Athens	GRE				1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1963	Athens	GRE	gold	silver
ROU	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA		Quarter finals
ROU	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY			Quarter finals
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1962	Bled	YUG	Semifinals	silver
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1959	Constanza	ROU		gold
ROU	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 16	last 128	9
ROU	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 64	last 64	no participants	11
ROU	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 32	last 128	last 16	13
ROU	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 64	last 16	Quarter finals	8th
ROU	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	last 32	no participants	9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Youth Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016).
2. ↑ National Romanian Championships in Individual Competition ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 8, 2012). 
3. ↑ National Romanian Championships in double competition ( Memento of the original from May 31, 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 March 8, 2012). 
4. ↑ Romanian national championships in mixed competition ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 March 8, 2012). 
5. ^ Adalbert Rethi results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on March 8, 2012).

swell

• Prof. Dr. med Radu Negulescu : In Memoriam - Adalbert Rethy , Swaythling Club International News No. 86, March 2009, page 14 Online (accessed March 8, 2012) (PDF; 1.8 MB)

Web links

• Obituary (Romanian) (accessed March 8, 2012)