Vilim Harangozo Explained

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.

Table tennis career

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

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

His older brother Tibor Harangozo (1922–1978) was also an international table tennis player.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ITTF_Database . 10 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100706161823/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2706 . 6 July 2010 . dead .
  2. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
  3. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  4. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
  5. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
  6. http://sportskisavezsubotice.org/index/page/id/42/lg/sr History of football in Subotica
  7. http://issuu.com/morsviolenta/docs/monografija_fk_ba__ka_1901 Lučonoše Jugoslovenskog fudbala - Monografija FK Bačka Subotica 1901-2001