Despina Mavrocordat
Maria 'Despina' Mavrocordat (1917–2014), married name Sayn-Wittgenstein, was a female Romanian international table tennis, volleyball and basketball player.
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| Born | November 30, 1917 Iași | |||||||||||||
| Died | 2014 | |||||||||||||
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Table tennis career
She won a bronze medal during the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup for Romania.[1][2] The team consisted of Sari Szász-Kolozsvári, Angelica Rozeanu and G Beca.[3]
Personal life
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Science. She was chairman of the Romanian Tennis Table Federation and emigrated to Germany and married into the Sayn-Wittgenstein family.
References
- "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- "1948 Corbillon Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
- "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
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