Despina Mavrocordat

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)November 30, 1917
Iași
Died2014

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.

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See also

References

  1. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  2. "1948 Corbillon Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
  3. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.


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