Adalbert Rethi (6 May 1943, Târgu Mureș - 14 October 2008, Hungary) was an ethnic Hungarian table tennis player from Romania.
While playing for Dinamo Târgu Mureș he was discovered by Farkas Paneth, who took him to CSM Cluj. His first international success was at the 1959 Youth Table Tennis European Championship, where he won the doubles competition with Radu Negulescu. At the 1962 Youth European Championship he won a silver medal in the doubles competition, and a bronze in the singles competition.
In the national championships he won 16 titles, among them three in the singles competition four in the doubles with Radu Negulescu, one in the mixed with Eleonora Mihalcă and the rest as a team member of CSM Cluj (alongside Dorin Giurgiuca, Radu Negulescu, etc.), a team with which he won five European Club Cup Championships. Between 1959 and 1967 he participated in five World Table Tennis Championships and several Table Tennis European Championships.
Private Adalbert Rethi was the son of an officer's family. After high school, he studied law at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and became a lawyer. In 1972 he married his first wife and emigrated to Hungary, to Cegléd. Later he married a second time. In 2008 he died after a long illness, leaving behind two children.
Awards Master of Sports, 1964
Results from the ITTF-databank ITTF-statistics (accessed 8 March 2012)
Representing Tournament Year City Country Singles Doubles Mixed Team ROU Balkan Games 1968 Skopje YUG silver gold ROU Balkan Games 1967 Antalya TUR gold silver ROU Balkan Games 1965 Sofia BUL silver silver 1 ROU Balkan Games 1964 Athen GRE 1 ROU Balkan Games 1963 Athen GRE gold silver ROU European Championship 1968 Lyon FRA quarter finals ROU European Championship 1966 London ENG quarter finals ROU Youth European Championship 1962 Bled YUG semi finals silver ROU Youth European Championship 1959 Constanta ROU gold ROU World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 16 last 128 9 ROU World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG last 64 last 64 did not play 11 ROU World Championship 1963 Prague TCH last 32 last 128 last 16 13 ROU World Championship 1961 Peking CHN last 64 last 16 quarter finals 8 ROU World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 64 last 32 did not play 9
References Prof. Dr. med Radu Negulescu: In Memoriam - Adalbert Rethy, Swaythling Club International News Nr. 86, March 2009, p. 14 Online (accessed 8 March 2012) (PDF; 1,8 MB) Results at the European Championship (accessed 8 March 2012) Romanian national championship singles (accessed 8 March 2012) Romanian national championship doubles (accessed 8 March 2012) Romanian national championship mixed (accessed 8 March 2012)
External links Obituary (Romanian) (accessed 8 March 2012)