Angelica Rozeanu facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Angelica Rozeanu
Angelica Rozeanu at the 1955 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Angelica Rozeanu-Adelstein
Nationality	Romania/ Israel
Born	(1921-10-15)15 October 1921 Bucharest, Romania
Died	21 February 2006(2006-02-21) (aged 84) Haifa, Israel
Medal record Representing  Romania World Championships Bronze 1957 Stockholm Doubles Silver 1957 Stockholm Team Gold 1956 Tokyo Doubles Gold 1956 Tokyo Team Gold 1955 Utrecht Singles Gold 1955 Utrecht Doubles Gold 1955 Utrecht Team Gold 1954 Wembley Singles Bronze 1954 Wembley Doubles Gold 1953 Bucharest Singles Gold 1953 Bucharest Doubles Gold 1953 Bucharest Mixed doubles Gold 1953 Bucharest Team Gold 1952 Bombay Singles Gold 1952 Bombay Mixed doubles Silver 1952 Bombay Team Gold 1951 Vienna Singles Silver 1951 Vienna Doubles Gold 1951 Vienna Mixed doubles Gold 1951 Vienna Team Gold 1950 Budapest Singles Silver 1950 Budapest Doubles Bronze 1950 Budapest Mixed doubles Gold 1950 Budapest Team Bronze 1948 Wembley Singles Bronze 1948 Wembley Mixed doubles Bronze 1948 Wembley Team Silver 1939 Cairo Doubles Bronze 1939 Cairo Team Bronze 1937 Baden Mixed doubles European Championships Gold 1960 Zagreb Doubles Silver 1960 Zagreb Mixed doubles Bronze 1958 Budapest Singles Gold 1958 Budapest Doubles Bronze 1958 Budapest Mixed doubles Silver 1958 Budapest Team

Angelica Rozeanu (née Adelstein) (15 October 1921 – 21 February 2006) was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, the most successful female table tennis player in the history of the sport, winning the women's world singles title 6 years in succession.

Table tennis career

Rozeanu started playing table tennis while recovering from scarlet fever when she was eight. In 1933, at age 12, she won the Romanian Cup. She won the Romanian national championship in 1936 and remained Romania's female champion for the next 21 years (1936–57, excluding World War II). Her first major win was the 1938 Hungarian Open.

Her career was interrupted by World War II, as from 1940 to 1944 she was barred from even entering a gymnasium in Romania and was unable to play.

Rozeanu won her first World Championship in 1950, starting the winning run that would see her win the championship six years in succession, a feat yet to be matched. She was also the last non-Asian woman to win the title. In total, she won 17 world titles (and 12 silver and bronze medals at the World Championships), three world women's doubles titles, and three world mixed doubles titles. By far Romania's greatest profile in the sport, she was also the President of the Romanian Table Tennis Commission from 1950 to 1960.

Rozeanu emigrated to Israel in 1960. She won the Maccabiah Games Table Tennis Championship in 1961 and was Israel's champion in 1960–62. She kept in touch with her native Romania, and visited it for the last time in 2005. In 2006, she died at the age of 84.

Recognition

Rozeanu was given the Romanian title of Merited Master of Sport in 1954. She has also received four Order of Work honors. In 1997 she was awarded the Knesset Medal. She was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Haifa in 2001.

She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1995.

See also

In Spanish: Angelica Rozeanu para niños