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Nationality | Hungary | ||||||||||||||
Born | Bocșa, Romania | 25 October 1926||||||||||||||
Died | October 2023 (aged 97) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kerekes Ilona (born Sólyom; 25 October 1926 – October 2023) was a Hungarian international table tennis player.[1]
Kerekes won two medals in the World Table Tennis Championships and three medals in the Table Tennis European Championships.[2]
Kerekes won two silver medals in 1950 and 1954 in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event).[3][4]
Kerekes was also the runner-up in the European Championship final losing to Éva Kóczián in the final.[5]
Kerekes died in October 2023, at the age of 97.[6]