| Biography | Viktor Barna was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player as well as a record five times singles World Champion. He won 41 World Championship medals and also won 20 English Open titles.
Barna's birth name was Gyozo Braun, but, because of anti-Semitism in Hungary at the time, he changed his name to a Hungarian-sounding name.
During the Second World War, he joined the British army as a parachutist, and fought in Yugoslavia. After the British withdrew from Yugoslavia, Barna remained in England.
Later he became a representative for the Dunlop Sports Company and continued traveling the world in this capacity. |