Tibor Harangozo (, sr-cyr, Тибор Харангозо) was a male Yugoslav international
table tennis
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player.
Table tennis career
He won a
silver medal
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at the
1939 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939.
Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing. Viktor Barna ...
in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with
Žarko Dolinar
Žarko Dolinar (3 July 1920 – 9 March 2003) was a Croatian biologist and table tennis player who won eight medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.
He was born in a family of Slovene economic immigrants to Croatia. In 1939, at the ag ...
,
Adolf Heršković,
Ladislav Hexner and
Max Marinko
Max Marinko (also known as Maks; 16 September 1916 – 20 August 1975) was a Yugoslav-Czechoslovak international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
Marinko won a silver medal at the 1939 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team ...
for Yugoslavia.
Personal life
His younger brother
Vilim Harangozo
Vilim Harangozo (, sr-cyr, Вилим Харангозо) was an ethnic Hungarian former table tennis player from Yugoslavia.
Table tennis career
From 1951 to 1958 Harangozo won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table ...
(1925–1975) was also an international table tennis player.
In 1969 Tibor Harangozo opened a shop for table tennis accessories in Saarbrücken, Germany, which was named
Tibhar after him.
Tibhar Tibor Harangozo GmbH has since become one of the main global table tennis brands
See also
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List of table tennis players
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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References
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Yugoslav table tennis players
1922 births
1978 deaths
World Table Tennis Championships medalists