Adalbert Rethi
Adalbert Rethi (6 May 1943, Târgu Mureș - 14 October 2008, Hungary) was an ethnic Hungarian table tennis player from Romania.
While playing for Dinamo Târgu Mureș he was discovered by Farkas Paneth, who took him to CSM Cluj. His first international success was at the 1959 Youth Table Tennis European Championship, where he won the doubles competition with Radu Negulescu.[1] At the 1962 Youth European Championship he won a silver medal in the doubles competition, and a bronze in the singles competition.
In the national championships he won 16 titles, amoing them 3 in the singles competition[2] four in the doubles with Radu Negulescu,[3] one in the mixed with Eleonora Mihalcă[4] and the rest as a team member of CSM Cluj (alongside Dorin Giurgiuca, Radu Negulescu, etc.), a team with which he won five European Club Cup Championships. Between 1959 and 1967 he participated in five World Table Tennis Championships and several Table Tennis European Championships.
Private
Adalbert Rethi was the son of an officer's family. After high school, he studied law at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and became a lawyer. In 1972 he married his first wife and emigrated to Hungary, to Cegléd. Later he married a second time. In 2008 he died after a long illness, leaving behind two children.
Awards
Master of Sports, 1964
Results from the ITTF-databank
| Representing | Tournament | Year | City | Country | Singles | Doubles | Mixed | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROU | Balkan Games | 1968 | Skopje | YUG | silver | gold | ||
| ROU | Balkan Games | 1967 | Antalya | TUR | gold | silver | ||
| ROU | Balkan Games | 1965 | Sofia | BUL | silver | silver | 1 | |
| ROU | Balkan Games | 1964 | Athen | GRE | 1 | |||
| ROU | Balkan Games | 1963 | Athen | GRE | gold | silver | ||
| ROU | European Championship | 1968 | Lyon | FRA | quarter finals | |||
| ROU | European Championship | 1966 | London | ENG | quarter finals | |||
| ROU | Youth European Championship | 1962 | Bled | YUG | semi finals | silver | ||
| ROU | Youth European Championship | 1959 | Constanta | ROU | gold | |||
| ROU | World Championship | 1967 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | last 16 | last 128 | 9 |
| ROU | World Championship | 1965 | Ljubljana | YUG | last 64 | last 64 | did not play | 11 |
| ROU | World Championship | 1963 | Prague | TCH | last 32 | last 128 | last 16 | 13 |
| ROU | World Championship | 1961 | Peking | CHN | last 64 | last 16 | quarter finals | 8 |
| ROU | World Championship | 1959 | Dortmund | FRG | last 64 | last 32 | did not play | 9 |
References
- ^ Results at the European Championship (accessed 8 March 2012)
- ^ Romanian national championship singles (accessed 8 March 2012)
- ^ Romanian national championship doubles (accessed 8 March 2012)
- ^ Romanian national championship mixed (accessed 8 March 2012)
- ^ ITTF-statistics (accessed 8 Mwrch 2012)