Adalbert Rethi (6 May 1943, Târgu Mureș - 14 October 2008, Hungary) was an ethnic Hungarian table tennis player from Romania.

While playing for Dinamo Târgu Mureș he was discovered by Farkas Paneth, who took him to CSM Cluj. His first international success was at the 1959 Youth Table Tennis European Championship, where he won the doubles competition with Radu Negulescu.[1] At the 1962 Youth European Championship he won a silver medal in the doubles competition, and a bronze in the singles competition.

In the national championships he won 16 titles, among them three in the singles competition[2] four in the doubles with Radu Negulescu,[3] one in the mixed with Eleonora Mihalcă[4] and the rest as a team member of CSM Cluj (alongside Dorin Giurgiuca, Radu Negulescu, etc.), a team with which he won five European Club Cup Championships. Between 1959 and 1967 he participated in five World Table Tennis Championships and several Table Tennis European Championships.

Private

Adalbert Rethi was the son of an officer's family. After high school, he studied law at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and became a lawyer. In 1972 he married his first wife and emigrated to Hungary, to Cegléd. Later he married a second time. In 2008 he died after a long illness, leaving behind two children.

Awards

Master of Sports, 1964

Results from the ITTF-databank

[5]

RepresentingTournamentYearCityCountrySinglesDoublesMixedTeam
ROUBalkan Games1968SkopjeYUGsilvergold
ROUBalkan Games1967AntalyaTURgoldsilver
ROUBalkan Games1965SofiaBULsilversilver1
ROUBalkan Games1964AthenGRE1
ROUBalkan Games1963AthenGREgoldsilver
ROUEuropean Championship1968LyonFRAquarter finals
ROUEuropean Championship1966LondonENGquarter finals
ROUYouth European Championship1962BledYUGsemi finalssilver
ROUYouth European Championship1959ConstantaROUgold
ROUWorld Championship1967StockholmSWElast 64last 16last 1289
ROUWorld Championship1965LjubljanaYUGlast 64last 64did not play11
ROUWorld Championship1963PragueTCHlast 32last 128last 1613
ROUWorld Championship1961PekingCHNlast 64last 16quarter finals8
ROUWorld Championship1959DortmundFRGlast 64last 32did not play9

References

  1. ↑ Results at the European Championship Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 8 March 2012)
  2. ↑ Romanian national championship singles Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 8 March 2012)
  3. ↑ Romanian national championship doubles Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 8 March 2012)
  4. ↑ Romanian national championship mixed Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 8 March 2012)
  5. ↑ ITTF-statistics (accessed 8 March 2012)
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