Sari Szasz
Sari Szasz - born as Sari Kolosvary (* 1922 in Cluj-Napoca ; † February 19, 2006 ) was a Romanian table tennis player . She took part in nine world championships and won four gold, three silver and three bronze medals.
Career
Sari Kolosvary was born in 1922. She married around 1950 and then appeared under the name Sari Szasz.
In the 1940s and 1950s she was overshadowed by Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu . So she never became Romanian individual champion. In doubles, however, she won seven titles (1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952).
In 1939 she was nominated for a world championship for the first time . Here she came in doubles with Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu in the final, where they lost to the German couple Hilde Bussmann / Trude Pritzi . In the team competition she was involved in winning the bronze medal. With the same partner, she made it to the final in 1951 . This time they were defeated by the English twins Diane Rowe / Rosalind Rowe . In 1950 she won bronze in singles . She was involved in four gold medals in the team competition, namely in 1950 , 1951 , 1953 and in her last World Cup participation in 1955 .
In October 1950, Sari Szasz finished third in the ITTF world rankings .
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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ROU | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | Quarter finals | last 16 | last 16 | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1954 | Wembley | CLOSELY | last 64 | no participants | no participants | 4th |
ROU | World Championship | 1953 | Bucharest | ROU | last 32 | last 16 | last 16 | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1952 | Bombay | IND | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | last 32 | 2 |
ROU | World Championship | 1951 | Vienna | AUT | last 16 | silver | no participants | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1950 | Budapest | HUN | Semifinals | last 32 | last 16 | 1 |
ROU | World Championship | 1948 | Wembley | CLOSELY | last 16 | Scratched | Scratched | 3 |
ROU | World Championship | 1939 | Cairo | EGY | last 16 | silver | no participants | 3 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ She took part in the 1949 World Cup, although she is not mentioned in the ITTF statistics for it. WM 1949 (accessed April 24, 2016)
- ↑ At the 1949 WM it was still called the Kolosvary WM 1949 in January (accessed April 24, 2016). At the 1950 World Cup, which began on January 29th, she appeared online as "Szasz" (accessed on April 24, 2016)
- ↑ National Romanian Championships Women’s Singles ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 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 April 24, 2016)
- ↑ National Romanian Championships Ladies Doubles ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 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 April 24, 2016)
- ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on April 24, 2016)
- ↑ Sari Szasz Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed April 24, 2016)
Web links
- Portrait: Sari Szasz-Kolosvari (1922 - 2006) (Romanian) (accessed April 24, 2016)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Szasz, sari |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kolosvary, Sari (maiden name); Kolosvari, sari; Szász-Kolozsvári, Sári |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj-Napoca |
DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 2006 |