Anna Sipos (3 April 1908 – 1 January 1988) was a Hungarian international table tennis player.
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Full name | SIPOS Anna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Hungarian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hungary | 3 April 1908||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 January 1988 | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editShe won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships[1] Eleven of these were gold medals.[1] including six consecutive women's doubles wins when partnering Mária Mednyánszky.[2][3][4]
Halls of Fame
editSipos was inducted into the International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.[5] Sipos, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "ITTF Database". Ittf.com. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Hall of Fame" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ "Anna Sipos". Jewishsports.net. International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
See also
edit- List of select Jewish table tennis players
- List of table tennis players
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists