Éva Kóczián

Éva Kóczián - later Kóczián - Földy - ( born August 25, 1936 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian table tennis player. She is three -time European champion in singles and World Champion in Mixed.

Achievements

National

Éva Kóczián won six times the Hungarian national championship in individual ( 1955,1958,1959,1961,1963,1967 ). There are also six titles in doubles and nine titles in mixed doubles. A total of eleven times, she participated in a team that brought the Hungarian Championship:

In 1959 she took - as well as 1966 - in the Hungarian ranking the first place in 1960 and 1965 in the European ranking also number one.

World Championships

From 1953 to 1967 she was nominated for nine world championships. She came in 1961 to the final, which they lost to the Chinese Qiu Zhonghui. In 1955 she won along with Kalman Szepesi the world championship in mixed doubles. The semi-finals she reached in the individual nor in 1954, 1955 and 1959, the double 1967 Erzsébet Jurik and in the Mixed 1953 and 1963 with Janos Laszlo Földy Fahazi. With the Hungarian team in 1954 she won the silver medal.

European Championships

Five times Kóczián was represented at the European Championships, while she took in the various disciplines six gold medals. 1958, 1960 and 1964, she won the singles title in 1966, she reached the semi-finals. In doubles, she won in 1966 with Erzsebet Jurik, which she had previously reached in 1958 with Livia Mossóczy and 1960 with Sarolta Máthé. With Ferenc Sido she took silver in the 1958 mixed doubles. 1960 and 1966 she became European Champion with the Hungarian team in 1964, it was enough for second place.

End of career

In the late 1960s ended Kóczián their active career. In 1976, she was coach of the women's team of Spartacus Budapest.

Private

Kócziáns brother József Kóczián was one of the top players in Hungary. On August 6, 1960 Kóczián married her former partner Mixed Laszlo Földy and then entered Kóczián - Földy under the name of. As 1966, the marriage ended in divorce, she took back to her birth name Kóczián.

Results from the ITTF database

Swell

• European Championships of adults ( accessed August 9, 2012 )