Mária Mednyánszky

Mária Mednyánszky
Full name	MEDNYANSZKY Maria
Nationality	Hungary
Medal record Women's table tennis Competitor for  Hungary World Championships 1936 Prague Doubles 1936 Prague Mixed Doubles 1935 Wembley Doubles 1935 Wembley Mixed Doubles 1935 Wembley Team 1934 Paris Doubles 1934 Paris Mixed Doubles 1934 Paris Team 1933 Baden Singles 1933 Baden Doubles 1933 Baden Mixed Doubles 1932 Prague Singles 1932 Prague Doubles 1932 Prague Mixed Doubles 1931 Budapest Singles 1931 Budapest Doubles 1931 Budapest Mixed Doubles 1930 Berlin Singles 1930 Berlin Doubles 1930 Berlin Mixed Doubles 1929 Budapest Singles 1929 Budapest Doubles 1929 Budapest Mixed Doubles 1928 Stockholm Singles 1928 Stockholm Doubles 1928 Stockholm Mixed Doubles 1926 London Singles 1926 London Mixed Doubles

Mária Mednyánszky (7 April 1901 Budapest – 22 December 1978 also Budapest) was a Hungarian table tennis star who became the first official women's world champion winning the single event gold medal in the first edition of the World Table Tennis Championships, held in 1926 at London.^[1] She went on to win the title for five successive years and won a further 18 world titles. She was awarded the Golden Order of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1976, Hungary's highest sporting honour.

References

• Maria Mednyanszky ITTF Hall of Fame. Accessed September 2007
• Maria Mednyanszky at I GUINNESS DEL TENNISTAVOLO (Italian) Accessed Sept 2007

Table tennis in Hungary Organization Table Tennis Association Notable players Viktor Barna Csilla Bátorfi László Bellák Zoltán Berczik Lajos Dávid Gizella Farkas Gábor Gergely Sándor Glancz Tibor Házi Roland Jacobi István Jónyer Béla von Kehrling István Kelen Beatrix Kisházi Tibor Klampár Éva Kóczián József Kóczián Petra Lovas Judit Magos-Havas Zoltán Mechlovits Mária Mednyánszky Lívia Mossóczy Daniel Pecsi Georgina Póta Ferenc Sidó Agnes Simon Anna Sipos Ferenc Soos Miklós Szabados Kálmán Szepesi Krisztina Tóth List of table tennis players