Theresia Földy

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Theresia Földy (* 1946 in Budapest ) is a Swiss table tennis player of Hungarian origin.

Time in Hungary

Földy started playing table tennis when he was 14 years old. In the mid-1960s she became the junior champion of Hungary. During this time she met her future husband Laszlo Földy , who became her trainer.

In 1967 she married Laszlo Földy. When her husband worked as a coach in Iran for two years, she accompanied him there and became Iranian champion in 1968. In 1969 the couple moved to Riehen in Switzerland.

Time in Switzerland

Here she played with the Rapid Geneva club and often took part in Swiss championships . In 1976 and 1977 she became Swiss individual champion. In 1973, 1975 and 1977 she started at world championships . In 1976 she took a baby break and gave birth to her first daughter, Carolin. Evelyn followed a year later. From 1990 to 2001 she won the Swiss championship in women's doubles six times with Tu Dai Yong . She won 11 national titles with the TTC Basel.

Senior competitions

She later took part in international senior competitions. In 2005 she became European senior citizen champion in the over 50 doubles with Elmira Antonyan in Bratislava , and won bronze in singles. At the Senior World Championships in Bremen in 2006, she took third place in the over-60 doubles with Swetlana Fjodorowa .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
SUI  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  CLOSELY   Agony  last 64  last 64  28 
SUI  World Championship  1975  Calcutta  IND   Agony  Agony  last 64  23 
SUI  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   Agony  Agony  Agony  27 

literature

  • Andreas W. Schmid: Basel sports greats - and what has become of them , Basler Zeitung of December 30, 2000, page 45
  • R.Varadi: Theresia Földy - Swiss TT champion 1976 , DTS magazine , 1976/6 pages 31–32

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/8 page 28
  2. ↑ Swiss Yearbook 2011/2012, page 187
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/3 page 9
  4. ↑ Swiss magazine TOPSPIN 2005/2006 issue 1 page 24
  5. ↑ Swiss magazine TOPSPIN 2005/2006 issue 4 page 25
  6. ↑ Theresia Földy results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 6, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Földy, Theresia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss table tennis player of Hungarian descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest