Vilim Harangozo (Hungarian: Harangozó Vilim, Serbian Cyrillic: Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian male former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.
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Full name | Vilim Harangozo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 25 January 1925 Subotica, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 January 1975 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
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]
His older brother Tibor Harangozo (1922-1978) was also an international table tennis player.
World table tennis men's doubles champions | |
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