Zoltán Mechlovits

Zoltán Mechlovits [ ˈzoltaːn ˈmɛʧloviʧ ] (* 1891 ; † March 25, 1951 ) was a Hungarian table tennis world champion.

Career

Mechlovits won the individual world championship at the 2nd World Cup in Stockholm in 1928 . At the age of 37, he is the oldest world champion so far (2005). In the final he was already behind his compatriot László Bellák after losing two sets in the third set by 17:20. But he managed to fend off all match points and still win the game with 3-2 sets.

In addition, Mechlovits won five gold medals with the team from Hungary. With Mária Mednyánszky he was twice world champion in mixed. At the national Hungarian championships he won four times in singles, five times in doubles and twice in mixed.

Mechlovits was a penholder player . He was involved in founding the world association ITTF . At times he was Vice President of the ITTF. At the ITTF Congress in Vienna during the 1951 World Cup , he was made an ITTF honorary member.

successes

Participation in 5 table tennis world championships
- 1926 in London
  - 2nd place single
  - 2nd place doubles (with Béla von Kehrling )
  - 1st place mixed (with Mária Mednyánszky )
  - 1st place with team Hungary
- 1928 in Stockholm
  - 1st place single
  - 3rd place doubles (with Roland Jacobi )
  - 1st place mixed (with Mária Mednyánszky )
  - 1st place with team Hungary
- 1929 in Budapest
  - 3rd place single
  - 3rd place mixed (with Mária Mednyánszky )
  - 1st place with team Hungary
- 1930 in Berlin
  - 1st place with team Hungary
- 1931 in Budapest
  - 1st place with team Hungary

Hungarian championships - gold medals
- 1910 - doubles (with Roland Jacobi )
- 1911 - singles, doubles (with Roland Jacobi )
- 1925 - singles, doubles (with Dániel Pécsi )
- 1926 - singles, doubles (with Erwin Freudenheim, AUT), mixed (with Lili Friedmann)
- 1928 - singles, doubles (with Dániel Pécsi ), mixed (with Mária Mednyánszky )

International championships
- 1926 in Berlin (GER) - 1st place individual
- 1927 in Berlin (GER) - 4th place singles, 1st place doubles (with Béla von Kehrling)
- 1928 in Berlin (GER) - 3rd place doubles (with Adrian Haydon ), 2nd place mixed (with Mária Mednyánszky )

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	World Championship	1933	to bathe	AUT	last 32	no participants	no participants
HUN	World Championship	1932	Prague	TCH	last 64	no participants	no participants
HUN	World Championship	1930	Berlin	FRG	last 64	Quarter finals	no participants
HUN	World Championship	1929	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Semifinals	1
HUN	World Championship	1928	Stockholm	SWE	gold	Semifinals	gold	1
HUN	World Championship	1926	London	CLOSELY	silver	silver	gold	1

Web links

Photo by Zoltán Mechlovits (accessed April 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b DTS names March 31, 1951 as the date of death - DTS magazine , 1951/13 p. 7
↑ The Times, December 13, 1926, p. 7
↑ Zoltán Mechlovits results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 12, 2011)

personal data
SURNAME	Mechlovits, Zoltan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian table tennis world champion
DATE OF BIRTH	1891
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1951

[DTS1951-1] DTS names March 31, 1951 as the date of death - DTS magazine , 1951/13 p. 7

[Times-2] The Times, December 13, 1926, p. 7

[3] Zoltán Mechlovits results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 12, 2011)