Vilim Harangozo

Vilim Harangozo (born January 25, 1925 in Subotica , † January 14, 1975 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav table tennis player . He was once world champion and later was national coach in Germany.

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Vilim Harangozo was a defender who became the youngest Yugoslav international ever at the age of 14. He won several national Yugoslav championships. In 1954 he won the International German Championships in Berlin in singles before Richard Bergmann and in doubles with Josip Vogrinc . The same double won the title here in 1960. Before the Second World War, Harangozo was also eligible to play in the Hungarian championships. In 1942 he and his brother Tibor won the Hungarian doubles championship. In the same year he won the Hungarian team championship with the Szabadkai Atlétikai és Torna Club.

From 1948 to 1959 Harangozo was represented eight times at world championships . In 1954 he became world champion in doubles with Žarko Dolinar . A year later he won silver with the same partner. He had already won a silver medal in 1951 in mixed with the Austrian Ermelinde Wertl .

At the European Championships in 1958, he reached the semi-finals in singles.

In the world rankings he took 6th place in 1951/52.

Trainer

After the end of his active career, he worked as a coach for the Yugoslav national team. At the Table Tennis World Championships in Ljubljana in 1965 , he led the Yugoslav team as the best European team to 4th place. In November 1965 he was hired as a trainer by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . He was the first national coach in Germany. During his tenure, both the German men's team in 1969 and Eberhard Schöler were runner-up in the individual world championships. The German women became European team champions in 1968 . In August 1971 he resigned and was replaced by Hans Alsér .

Honors

In 1976, in Harangozo's hometown of Subotica, a bust was erected in his honor in the park near the sports hall, and a street in this district was named after him.

Private

His older brother Tibor Harangozo (* 1922, † 1978) was also a Yugoslav table tennis player who took part in three world championships.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	European Championship	1958	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals
YUG	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 32	no participants	5
YUG	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	last 32	last 16	no participants	5
YUG	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	last 32	silver	last 16	5
YUG	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 32	gold	last 32	4th
YUG	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 32	5
YUG	World Championship	1951	Vienna	AUT	last 32	last 16	silver	3
YUG	World Championship	1949	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	7th
YUG	World Championship	1948	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 32	Quarter finals	no participants	5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 133–135
2. ↑ Hungarian Championships in Individuals ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 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 September 25, 2012) 
3. ↑ Hungarian Team Championships ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 25, 2012; PDF; 137 kB)
4. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin - Official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2005 / Issue 7–8, p. 16
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/5 p. 4
6. ↑ Vilim Harangozo Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 8, 2011)