Magda Gál

Magda Gál

Personal information
Nationality	Hungary United States
Born	1907
Died	1990(1990-00-00) (aged 82–83)
Medal record Representing Hungary World Table Tennis Championships 1929 Women's singles 1929 Women's doubles 1929 Mixed doubles 1930 Mixed doubles 1930 Women's doubles 1931 Mixed doubles 1931 Women's doubles 1931 Women's singles 1932 Mixed doubles 1932 Women's doubles 1932 Women's singles 1933 Women's singles 1933 Women's doubles 1933 Mixed doubles 1934 Women's singles 1934 Women's doubles 1934 Women's team 1935 Women's team 1935 Women's singles 1936 Women's doubles

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

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.

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. 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.

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.

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists