Despina Mavrocordat Explained

Despina Mavrocordat
Birth Date:30 November 1917
Birth Place:Iași

Maria 'Despina' Mavrocordat (1917–2014), married name Sayn-Wittgenstein, was a female Romanian international table tennis, volleyball and basketball player.

Table tennis career

She won a bronze medal during the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup for Romania.[1] [2] The team consisted of Sari Szász-Kolozsvári, Angelica Rozeanu and G Beca.[3]

Personal life

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Science. She was chairman of the Romanian Tennis Table Federation and emigrated to Germany and married into the Sayn-Wittgenstein family.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
  2. Web site: 1948 Corbillon Cup. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-06. 2021-11-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20211127234220/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1947-48/tt_issue46.pdf. dead.
  3. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-05-06. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.