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Hungarian table tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mária Mednyánszky (7 April 1901 Budapest – 22 December 1978 also Budapest) was a Hungarian international table tennis star.
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Full name | Mária Mednyánszky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Budapest | 7 April 1901|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 December 1978 77) Budapest | (aged|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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She became the first official women's world champion winning the women's singles event gold medal in the first edition of the World Table Tennis Championships, held in 1926 at London.[1] She went on to win the title for five successive years and won a further 18 world titles.[2] Only Angelica Rozeanu holds more women's singles titles than her.[2]
She won seven doubles titles including six consecutive wins with Anna Sipos.[2][3][4] She also won three English Open titles.
She was awarded the Golden Order of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1976, Hungary's highest sporting honour.
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