Vilim Harangozo

Vilim Harangozo
Vilim Harangozo on the left
Personal information
Full name Vilim Harangozo
Nationality  Yugoslavia
Born 25 January 1925
Subotica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died 14 January 1975
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia

Vilim Harangozo is a male former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.

Table tennis career

From 1951 to 1958 he 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

He 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 season 1948/49.[7]

Personal Life

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

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
  2. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  4. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  5. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  6. ↑ History of football in Subotica at Sportski savez Subotice, retrieved 9-9-2013 (in Serbian)
  7. ↑ Lučonoše Jugoslovenskog fudbala - Monografija FK Bačka Subotica 1901-2001, pag. 57 (in Serbian)

See also

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