Gizella Farkas
Gizella " Teri " Farkas ( born November 20, 1925 in Miskolc, † June 17, 1996 in Vienna) was a Hungarian table tennis player. She was three times world champion in singles.
With 10 years Gizella Farkas began under the guidance of her father with the table tennis sport. Early as 1940, it was Hungarian Champion. In the same year she won in a tournament in Baden near Vienna against the former world champion Trude Pritzi.
World Championships
From 1947 to 1949 Farkas won three times in succession the title in singles. In addition three gold medals in double and four gold medals in mixed doubles. From 1950 to 1953, she reached four times the final, which they lost to the Romanian Angelica Rozeanu every time. Silver she took a double and four times with the Hungarian team.
After the final game in the 1949 World Cup Farkas was arrested by the police. She was accused of having stolen along with Erzsebet Mezei in Gothenburg. The Hungarian Table Tennis Association ordered the players back then nor during the World Cup to Budapest.
European Championships
Farkas took part twice in the European Championships. They won the title in 1958 and 1960 mixed with the Hungarian women's team.
Others
In the ITTF World Ranking 1947/48 Farkas was ranked first Owing to its success it was added to the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1995.
Private
Gizella Farkas worked as a civil servant in the Hungarian Ministry of Education. Later they moved to Vienna, where she lived until recently. She had a brother named Zoltan. She married several times, the first time a few years before 1951, and entered under the name Fekete, Gervai ( second marriage end 1951) and Lantos on.
Achievements
TT World Championships
TT Championships
Hungarian National Championships
Farkas won the Hungarian Cup 15 times in single, double and 16 times in the 13 times in the mixed doubles.
Results from the ITTF database
Philately
From the post office in Cluj- Napoca Romania following postmark was used: December 12, 1996: special postmark with a picture of table tennis player Teri Farkas.
Swell
- EDRG. , the world's top women magazine DTS, 1951/21 edition West South p.2
- Teri Farkas is no longer alive, magazine DTS, 1996/9 p.34