Viktor Barna

Personal information
Nationality	Hungarian, English
Born	Győző Braun (1911-08-24)24 August 1911 Budapest,Austria-Hungary
Died	27 February 1972(1972-02-27) (aged 60) Lima, Peru
Sport
Sport	Table tennis
Medal record Men'stable tennis Representing Hungary World Championships 1929 Budapest Doubles 1929 Budapest Team 1930 Berlin Singles 1930 Berlin Doubles 1930 Berlin Team 1931 Budapest Doubles 1931 Budapest Team 1932 Prague Singles 1932 Prague Doubles 1932 Prague Mixed doubles 1933 Baden Singles 1933 Baden Doubles 1933 Baden Team 1934 Paris Singles 1934 Paris Doubles 1934 Paris Team 1935 Wembley Singles 1935 Wembley Doubles 1935 Wembley Mixed doubles 1935 Wembley Team 1938 Wembley Team 1931 Budapest Singles 1931 Budapest Mixed doubles 1932 Prague Team 1934 Paris Mixed doubles 1937 Baden Team 1938 Wembley Doubles 1930 Berlin Mixed doubles 1933 Baden Mixed doubles 1936 Prague Team 1938 Wembley Singles Representing England World Championships 1939 Cairo Doubles 1954 Wembley Doubles 1947 Paris Doubles 1947 Paris Mixed doubles 1948 Wembley Doubles 1949 Stockholm Team 1952 Bombay Doubles 1952 Bombay Mixed doubles 1953 Bucharest Doubles 1954 Wembley Mixed doubles

Viktor Győző Barna (bornGyőző Braun; 24 August 1911 – 27 February 1972) was a Hungarian and British championtable tennis player as well as a record five times singlesWorld Champion.^[1]

He won 41World Championship medals (including 22 gold medals) and also won 20English Open titles.

Barna's birth name was Győző Braun, but because ofanti-Semitism in Hungary at the time, he changed his name to a Hungarian-sounding name. In September 1939, during the outbreak of theSecond World War, he and his wife were in America. Barna returned to Europe, in order to fight against the Nazis. He joined the British army as a parachutist, and fought in Yugoslavia. After the British withdrew from Yugoslavia, Barna remained in England. After the war he settled with his wife in London. He became a British national in 1952. Later he became a representative for theDunlop Sports Company and continued traveling the world in this capacity. It was during one of these tours in 1972 that he succumbed to a heart attack inLima, Peru.

His brother Tibor Barna was the 1940 Hungarian table tennis national champion.^[2]

In 1957, he published the book "How to Win at Table Tennis" (London: Pitman)ISBN 978-0-273-41699-9.^[3] Then, in 1962, he published the bookTable Tennis Today (London: Arthur Barker) and in 1971Your Book of Table TennisISBN 978-0-571-09345-8.

Barna, who wasJewish, was inducted into theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981.

Barna was inducted into theInternational Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.^[4]

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