[2] In 1936, when he was playing Alojzy Ehrlich, a Pole, at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, one of their exchanges lasted for two hours and twelve minutes.

The Romanian team (Viktor Vladone, Marin Vasile-Goldberger and Farkas Paneth) won a silver medal in that competition.

winning 16 world gold medals and 32 European titles (including youth competitions).

[2] While he coached CSM Cluj, his team won the European Club Cup of Champions five times.

[3] He was the subject of a documentary movie by Steven Spielberg about the life of the Jews during World War II.