Magda Gál

Magda Gál (married name Házi) (1907-1990), was a female Hungarian international table tennis player.[1]

Magda Gál
Personal information
Nationality Hungary  United States
Born1907
Died1990
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
World Table Tennis Championships
1929Women's singles
1929Women's doubles
1929Mixed doubles
1930Mixed doubles
1930Women's doubles
1931Mixed doubles
1931Women's doubles
1931Women's singles
1932Mixed doubles
1932Women's doubles
1932Women's singles
1933Women's singles
1933Women's doubles
1933Mixed doubles
1934Women's singles
1934Women's doubles
1934Women's team
1935Women's team
1935Women's singles
1936Women's doubles

Table tennis career

She was a prolific World Table Tennis Championships medal winner and secured eight silver medals and twelve bronze medals from the 1929 World Table Tennis Championships to the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships.[2]

Gál came short of a gold medal for two reasons; first the fact that with various doubles partners she was unable to overcome the six times world champion pairing of Mária Mednyánszky and Anna Sipos, and secondly the war effectively ended her chances to compete at world level. She did however continue to play in the United States.[3] She also won two English Open titles.

Personal life

Gál was born into a banking family was the only woman competitor on the table tennis team at the University of Szeged.[4]

She married her fellow international player Tibor Házi in 1937 and in 1939 they fled to the United States because of their Jewish origins and they settled in Bethesda, Maryland. She died in 1990 aged 83 and Házi died in 1999.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. "Tibor Hazi Hoffman and Magda Gal". YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
  4. "Hall of Fame". Team USA.
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