Vilim Harangozo | |
Birth Date: | 25 January 1925 |
Birth Place: | Subotica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Death Place: | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Vilim Harangozo (Hungarian: Harangozó Vilim, Serbian: Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.
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.
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]
His older brother Tibor Harangozo (1922–1978) was also an international table tennis player.