Magda Gál

Magda Gál
Personal information
Nationality Hungary  United States
Born1907
Died1990(1990-00-00) (aged 82–83)
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1929 Women's singles
Bronze medal – third place 1929 Women's doubles
Silver medal – second place 1929 Mixed doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1930 Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 1930 Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1931 Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 1931 Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1931 Women's singles
Bronze medal – third place 1932 Mixed doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1932 Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1932 Women's singles
Bronze medal – third place 1933 Women's singles
Silver medal – second place 1933 Women's doubles
Silver medal – second place 1933 Mixed doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1934 Women's singles
Bronze medal – third place 1934 Women's doubles
Silver medal – second place 1934 Women's team
Silver medal – second place 1935 Women's team
Silver medal – second place 1935 Women's singles
Bronze medal – third place 1936 Women's doubles

Magda Gál (married name Házi) (1907 – 1990), was a Hungarian international table tennis player.[1]

Table tennis career

She was a prolific World Table Tennis Championships medal winner and secured eight silver medals and twelve bronze medals from the 1929 World Table Tennis Championships to the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships.[2]

Gál came short of a gold medal for two reasons; first the fact that with various doubles partners she was unable to overcome the six times world champion pairing of Mária Mednyánszky and Anna Sipos, and secondly the war effectively ended her chances to compete at world level. She did however continue to play in the United States.[3] She also won two English Open titles.

Personal life

Gál was born into a banking family in 1907, and was the only woman competitor on the table tennis team at the University of Szeged.[4]

She married her fellow international player Tibor Házi in 1937, and in 1939, they fled to the United States to avoid capture by Nazi Germany because of their Jewish origins, and they settled in Bethesda, Maryland. She died in 1990 aged 83 and Házi died in 1999.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  3. ^ "Tibor Hazi Hoffman and Magda Gal". YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
  4. ^ a b "Hall of Fame". Team USA. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015.


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