István Jónyer (born 4 August 1950 in Miskolc) 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

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Table tennis career

He was one of the most dominant players of the sport in the 1970s and famous for inventing the sidespin loop shot. From 1968 to 1983 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

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and in the

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. He is a 4-time World Champion and 4-time European Champion. The eight World Championship medals included four

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s; one in the men's singles, one in the men's team event and two in the men's doubles with

Tibor Klampár Tibor Klampár (born 30 April 1953) is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career From 1970 to 1982 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in ...

and

Gábor Gergely Gábor Gergely (born 21 June 1953, in Budapest) is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career From 1974 to 1983 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Cham ...

. He also won an

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title.

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External Links

Istvan Jonyer at Table Tennis Media
1950 births Hungarian male table tennis players Sportspeople from Miskolc Living people {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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