Magda Gál
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United States
Hungary 
United StatesBorn1907
 Tibor Házi and Magda Házi playing table tennis with Eddie Pinner and Alice O’Connor, photographed by Gjon Mili for Life magazine, March 3, 1941. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Hungary United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1907 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1990 (aged 82–83) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Magda Gál (married name Házi) (1907 – 1990), was a Hungarian international table tennis player.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3] She also won two English Open titles.
