Tibor Harangozo

Tibor Harangozo (* 1922 ; † 1978 ) was a Yugoslav table tennis player and coach.

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The defender was eligible to participate in the Hungarian championships before World War II . He won the title in both singles and doubles in 1942 and 1944. With the Szabadkai Atlétikai és Torna Club team , he became the Hungarian team champion in 1942.

At the World Cup in Cairo in 1939 , he won silver with the Yugoslav team. After the war he was nominated for the World Championships in 1948 and 1949 .

Harangozo studied medicine in Budapest during the war. After the war, he was operated on on his tonsils. This operation resulted in paralysis of his right arm, from which he recovered very slowly. However, he was forced to end his career as a competitive athlete. He returned to Yugoslavia to complete his studies. His years of study in Budapest were not recognized there. Since there was no money for a new start, he took the path of a table tennis trainer.

Trainer

Harangozo worked as a trainer in different countries. In 1951 he was employed by the Austrian Table Tennis Association. Here he prepared in particular Ermelinde Wertl and Waldemar Fritsch for the 1951 World Cup. At the end of 1952 he took over the national team of Chile for two years. The next stop from 1954 was Saarland, where Eva Graf made noticeable progress under his guidance. At the 1955 World Cup , he looked after the Saarland players. He then worked as a table tennis teacher in several South American countries.

In 1958 the Bavarian Table Tennis Association hired Harangozo as an association trainer for 40 days in order to promote the youngsters. In 1966 he led the men's team of 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Bundesliga . In 1969 he founded a business for table tennis accessories in Saarbrücken, which was named Tibhar after him .

Also in 1969 he founded the Tibhar table tennis school and published the magazine "Tischtennis aktuell". The magazine initially appeared 5 times a year and mainly dealt with topics related to table tennis training, but at the same time served to advertise the table tennis school and table tennis products, which were often discussed in detail there. The magazine later appeared only irregularly and was then discontinued in the late 1970s. At this point in time there was neither in the specialist magazine “ Deutscher Tischtennis Sport ” nor in other specialist literature any comparably good and comprehensive information on the subject of table tennis training. As the author of the magazine and as a trainer for the table tennis school, he won trainers of stature (e.g. Radivoj Hudetz , who held a university professorship for table tennis in what was then Yugoslavia, Charles Roesch - the later DTTB national trainer, the Saarland trainer Karl-Heinz Schreiner , Tomi Terecik ...) and also players (such as Dragutin Šurbek , Istvan Korpa , Zlatko Cordas or the French national player Jean Paul Weber , who acted as the "Chinese scare" at the 1971 World Cup in Nagoya with his anti-topspin rubber)

As a trainer he was always ahead of his time, looked for new ways and wrote a table tennis book - "Stolni tenis" (Belgrade, 1955) - which, however, was never translated into other languages. Also a small book written by him in German, "Tischtennis modernpiele" described many new aspects of training in table tennis and - provided with instructive drawings - also gave good descriptions of table tennis technique. Surprisingly, the "trained" defender taught above all uncompromising offensive table tennis.

Private

Tibor Harangozo's younger brother Vilim was also a well-known player who was the first national coach to work for the German Table Tennis Federation DTTB .

Results from the ITTF database

Data from the ITTF results table.

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	World Championship	1949	Stockholm	SWE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	7th
YUG	World Championship	1948	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 128	last 32	no participants	5
YUG	World Championship	1939	Cairo	EGY	last 64	Scratched	no participants	2

literature

• Rider: Tibor Harangozo trains in Bavaria , DTS magazine , 1958/19 West issue p. 3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1951/19 p. 3
2. ↑ 1. FC Saarbrücken - from Rodenhof to the Bundesliga ( Memento from January 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 8, 2012)
3. ↑ http://tibhar.de/index.php
4. ^ Tibor Harangozo results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 8, 2011)