Vilim Harangozo

Vilim Harangozo (Hungarian: Harangozó Vilim, Serbian Cyrillic: Вилим Харангозо) is an ethnic Hungarian male former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.

Vilim Harangozo
Vilim Harangozo on the left
Personal information
Full nameVilim Harangozo
Nationality Yugoslavia
Born25 January 1925
Subotica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died14 January 1975
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR 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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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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