Vilim Harangozo
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Born | Subotica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | 25 January 1925|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 January 1975 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | (aged 49)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vilim Harangozo (Hungarian: Harangozó Vilim, Serbian Cyrillic: Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.
Table tennis career
[edit]From 1951 to 1958 Harangozo 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
[edit]Harangozo 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 1948–49 season.[7]
Personal life
[edit]His older brother Tibor Harangozo (1922–1978) was also an international table tennis player.
References
[edit]- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 6 July 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ "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 September 2013 (in Serbian)
- ^ Lučonoše Jugoslovenskog fudbala - Monografija FK Bačka Subotica 1901-2001, pag. 57 (in Serbian)
See also
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