Victor Barna

Victor Barna - also Viktor Barna [ˈviktorˈbɒrnɒ] - (* 24. August 1911 in Budapest, † 28. February 1972 in Lima) was a Hungarian table tennis player. He became several times world champion.

Barnas birth name read Győző brown, but because of the anti-Semitic tendency in the Hungary of intermediate wartime some Jewish Hungarian players their German sounding surnames magyarisierten. Therefore it changed its names in Viktor Barna.

Barnas father was a pressure setter. Barna learned table tennis in local Sportverein in Budapest. Soon it belonged to the top players in Hungary. For the first time it became 1930 in Berlin world champion in the single. Altogether it won 32 medals with world championships: 23-mal gold, 6-mal silver and 3-mal bronze. 17-mal became he Hungarian master. Several times he became with the Hungarian team world champion. Most successfully he was with the world championship 1935, as he in each case in the single, double and Mixed the 1. Place occupied. Occasionally it often successfully participated in tournaments in North America, Australia and Europe.

1935 were interrupted its career: With a car accident in France its right arm was heavily hurt. It won the double competition nevertheless with the world championship 1939.

1936 moved Barna to France. In September 1939, during the outbreak 2. World war, he was with his Mrs. Susie (also “Suzy”) in America. Barna returned to Europe, in order to fight against the Nazis. It announced itself at the British army and as a parachutist in Yugoslavia was used. After the British from Yugoslavia had withdrawn themselves, Barna remained in England and organized looking fights - often in the Savoy hotel. With international fights it began for England. Its first names anglisierte it: from Viktor Victor became.

After the war it established itself with its wife in Pinner. 1954 were the last world championship, in which he participated.

Later he became a representative for a Londoner sports article manufacturer (Dunlop of sport company), naturally for table tennis products, later in addition, for the ranges tennis, Leichtathletik and gulf. 1962 it published the book Table tennis Today (London: Arthur Barker).

To 20. April 1967 created Barna as well as and. A. Dr. Dieter Mauritz the international Swaythling club.

1972 died Barna in Lima at the consequences of a cardiac infarct.

1973 donated Barnas woman to the Victor Barna Memorial Cup. This becomes to the most successful participant and/or. the most successful Teilnehmerin of a world championship assigns, whereby one calculates success after a certain valuation system.

successes

• world championships
  • 1929 in Budapest - 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1930 in Berlin - 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 3. To place in the Mixed with Inge-borrow Carnatz (Germany), 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1931 in Budapest - 2. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 2. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos (Hungary), 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1932 in Prague - 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 1. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos (Hungary), 2. Place with team Hungary
  • 1933 in bathing - 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Sándor Glancz, 3. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos (Hungary), 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1934 in of Paris - 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 2. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos (Hungary), 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1935 in London - 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 1. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos (Hungary), 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1936 in Prague - 5.Platz with team Hungary
  • 1937 in bathing (Austria) - 2. Place with team Hungary
  • 1938 in London - 3. Place single, 2. Place double with László Bellák, 1. Place with team Hungary
  • 1939 in Cairo - 1. Place double with smelling pool of broadcasting corporations miner (Barna steps for England on)
  • 1947 in of Paris - 3. Place double with Adrian Haydon, 3. Place Mixed with Margaret franc (England)
  • 1948 in London - 3. Place double with smelling pool of broadcasting corporations miner
  • 1949 in Stockholm - 3. Place with team England
  • 1952 in Bombay - 3. Place double with Adrian Haydon, 3. Place Mixed with Rosalind Rowe (England)
  • 1953 in Bucharest - 3. Place double with Adrian Haydon
  • 1954 in London - 2. Place double with Michel Haguenauer (FRA), 3. Place Mixed with Rosalind Rowe (England)

• Hungarian championships
  • 1929 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados
  • 1930 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 1. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos
  • 1931 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 1. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos
  • 1932 1. Place single, 1. Place double with Miklos Szabados, 1. Place Mixed with Anna Sipos
  • 1938 1. Place single, 1. Place double with István Boros, 1. Place Mixed with Dóra Beregi

• open one English championships
  • 1931 1. Place double (with Miklos Szabados)
  • 1933 1. Place single, 1. Place double (with Sándor Glancz)
  • 1934 1. Place single, 1. Place double (with Tommy Sears)
  • 1935 1. Place single, 1. Place double (with Tommy Sears)
  • 1937 1. Place single
  • 1938 1. Place single, 1. Place double (with Laszlo Bellák)
  • 1939 1. Place double (with László Bellák)
  • 1949 1. Place double (with smelling pool of broadcasting corporations miner)

• other meetings
  • of 1936 winners in the single of US open