Daniel Pecsi is a male former international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player from

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

Table tennis career

He won four medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ...

in 1926 and 1928. The four World Championship medals included three gold medals; two in the team event and one in doubles at the

1926 World Table Tennis Championships The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926. The championships were originally held as the European Championships which was the same year that the International Table Tennis Federation was for ...

with

Roland Jacobi Roland Jacobi (9 March 1893 – 22 May 1951) was a male international table tennis player from Hungary. He was the first ever men's singles world champion at the 1926 World Table Tennis Championships and won six medals in singles, doubles and t ...

. He also won two English Open titles.

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Hungarian male table tennis players Place of birth missing Year of birth missing Year of death missing 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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