Zsuzsanna Fantusz

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Zsuzsanna Fantusz , married Javor (born December 28, 1933 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian and now Australian table tennis player . She won two bronze medals at the 1953 World Cup .

Career

Zsuzsanna Fantusz was the daughter of Jewish parents. After the Second World War , she joined the Mavag table tennis club, which already had the best Hungarian players at the time. Under the guidance of her coach Karoly Javor, her future husband, she quickly increased her skill level. She won the national Hungarian championship four times with women's teams, namely 1951 and 1953 with SZOT, 1954 with Vasas MÁVAG SK and 1955 with Budapest MÁVAG SK.

In 1953 she was nominated for the world championship. Here she won bronze both in doubles with Edit Sagi (loss in the semi-finals against Gizella Farkas / Angelica Rozeanu ) and in the team competition with Agnes Simon-Almasy , Gizella Farkas.

During the Hungarian uprising in 1956 , she and her husband attended a table tennis tournament in Austria. They did not return to Hungary. They left Europe in April 1957 and traveled by ship from the German city of Bremerhaven to Melbourne in Australia. In the same year a son was born.

Here they continued to actively play table tennis and, based on their skill level, shaped Australian table tennis. Zsuzsanna Javor won the Australian Championship in 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1965. In 1960 she took first place in the Australian rankings. In the 1960s, she was champion of Victoria State six times in a row. For Australia, she took part in the 1963 World Cup.

In 2000 she was inducted into the Maccabi Victoria Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Hungarian Team Championships 1925 - 2007 (accessed December 20, 2018)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/1 page 2, 1959/20 page 3, 1960/20 page 14, 1965/3 page 4
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/24 page 14
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1962/16 page 3
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1963/9 page 3

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personal data
SURNAME Fantusz, Zsuzsanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fantusz, Zsuzsa; Javor, Zsuzsanna (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest