Csilla Bátorfi
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Nationality | Hungary | ||||||||||||||
Born | 3 March 1969 | ||||||||||||||
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Playing style | right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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Csilla Bátorfi (born 3 March 1969 in Szombathely) is a Hungarian table tennis player.[1] She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1988 (when the sport first appeared at the Games) to 2004. She won several titles in European Championships.[2]
She is the first female table tennis player to compete at five Olympics. Six men share this honor with her: Swede Jörgen Persson, Croatian Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, Swede Jan-Ove Waldner, and German Jörg Roßkopf.
She was named Hungarian Sportswoman of The Year in 1986 after becoming European champion the same year.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "BATORFI Csilla (HUN)". ITTF Statistics. ITTF. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Hungarian female table tennis players
- Olympic table tennis players for Hungary
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Szombathely
- Hungarian table tennis biography stubs