Silvija Erdelji (
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: Силвија Ердељи,
Hungarian: Erdélyi Szilvia; May 28, 1979 in
Senta
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table tennis
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player.
She won 2 bronze medals, in singles and doubles, at the 2003 European Table Tennis Championship. Erdelji competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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Greece
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. In 2005, she became Mediterranean doubles champion.
She was named as
Serbia and Montenegro Sportswoman of The Year 2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
. Erdelji is of
Hungarian ethnicity.
External links
Silvija Erdelji Sports Reference
1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Senta
Serbian female table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for Serbia and Montenegro
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in table tennis
20th-century Serbian women
21st-century Serbian women
Serbia and Montenegro sportswomen
Hungarians in Vojvodina
European champions for Serbia and Montenegro
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