Maria 'Despina' Mavrocordat (1917–2014), married name Sayn-Wittgenstein, was a female Romanian international table tennis, volleyball and basketball player.

Despina Mavrocordat
Personal information
Nationality Romania
Born(1917-11-30)30 November 1917
Iași
Died2014(2014-00-00) (aged 96–97)
Medal record
Representing  Romania
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1948 Women's team

Table tennis career

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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

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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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  2. ^ "1948 Corbillon Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-06.