Angelica Rozeanu

Angelica Rozeanu, born Angelica Adelstein on 15 October 1921 and died on 21 February 2006, was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin and the most successful woman in the history of the sport, winning the women's world singles title six years in succession from 1950. In total she won 17 world titles, three of them in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She won the Romanian cup at twelve and the Romanian national championship from 1936 for 21 years, though the Second World War kept her out of play from 1940 to 1944. She emigrated to Israel in 1960 and was Israel's champion in 1961 and 1962. She entered the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1995.