Vilim Harangozo
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Full name | Vilim Harangozo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 25 January 1925 Subotica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 January 1975 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vilim Harangozo (Hungarian: Harangozó Vilim, Serbian Cyrillic: Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian male former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.
Table tennis career[]
From 1951 to 1958 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[1]
His four World Championship medals[2][3] included a gold medal in the doubles at the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships with Žarko Dolinar.[4][5]
He also won three English Open titles.
Football[]
He also played as footballer at FK Spartak Subotica in the Yugoslav First League during the late 1940s.[6] He scored the first ever first league goal of Spartak and it was against giants Red Star Belgrade. He also played with FK Bratstvo Subotica in the season 1948/49.[7]
Personal life[]
His older brother Tibor Harangozo (1922-1978) was also an international table tennis player.
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ History of football in Subotica at Sportski savez Subotice, retrieved 9-9-2013 (in Serbian)
- ^ Lučonoše Jugoslovenskog fudbala - Monografija FK Bačka Subotica 1901-2001, pag. 57 (in Serbian)
See also[]
- 1925 births
- 1975 deaths
- Sportspeople from Subotica
- Yugoslav table tennis players
- Yugoslav footballers
- FK Spartak Subotica players
- Yugoslav First League players