Miklós Szabados

Miklós Szabados (7 March 1912 – 12 February 1962) was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.

Table tennis career Szabados was born in Budapest, Hungary on 7 March 1912. He first started playing table tennis when he was thirteen, and defeated Victor Barna in a tournament in 1927.

From 1928 to 1935, Szabados won the world doubles title six times (1929–32 and 1934–35). He won mixed doubles three times (1930, 1931, and 1934), and was a member of the Swaythling Cup team five times (1929–31, 1934, and 1935). He won four world events in 1931: singles, doubles, mixed doubles, and the Swaythling Cup.

As his mother had been born Jewish, Szabados left his studies at the University of Berlin in 1933 and fled to Paris. He moved to Britain in 1936.

Szabados emigrated to Sydney after the tour and opened a table tennis club. He married Marie Alice Bracher in 1941, and they had one son, Sandor . They were divorced in 1954. While serving with the Allied Works Council during World War II, Szabados he was stationed at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, in 1943–44.