Anna
Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championship table tennis
competition.
She is ranked the second best
women’s player of her era.
Among Sipos’s many championships
are the World Singles title in
consecutive years—1932 and 1933, the
World Doubles championship in six
consecutive years (with M. Mednyanszky)—
1929 through 1934, and the
World Mixed Doubles championships
with Istvan Kelen in 1929 and with Victor
Barna in 1932 and 1935.
Sipos was the first female player
to
use the penholder grip, but changed to
the shakehand grip in 1932. After
changing her grip, she was able to defeat
her old nemesis and doubles partner,
Mednyanszky.
In all, Sipos won 21 medals in
World Championship competitions. |