- Csilla Bátorfi
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Csilla Bátorfi (born March 3, 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
References
- ^ "Olympic Results". Sports Reference. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/csilla-batorfi-1.html. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "BATORFI Csilla (HUN)". ITTF Statistics. ITTF. http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=582. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
Awards Preceded by
Éva FóriánHungarian Sportswoman of The Year
1986Succeeded by
Mariann EngrichCategories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- Hungarian table tennis players
- Olympic table tennis players of 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
- People from Szombathely
- Table tennis biography stubs
- Hungarian sportspeople stubs
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