Laszlo Bellak
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Full name | Bellák László | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Hungary United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1911-02-12)12 February 1911 Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 20 September 2006(2006-09-20) (aged 95) Miami, Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laszlo Bellak (February 12, 1911 – September 20, 2006) was a Hungarian and American table tennis player.
Table tennis career
He represented Hungary 59 times in international competition.[1] He won 21 medals at the World Championships, seven of which were gold. This included six wins as a member of the Hungarian National Team that won the Swaythling Cup in 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, and 1938.[2]
Bellak moved to the United States at the start of World War II, and enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in India and Burma.[1] He was decorated three times, and was honorably discharged with the Victory Medal, attaining the rank of Sergeant.
He won the U.S. Men’s Singles title in 1938, the U.S. Men’s Doubles in 1937, 1939, and 1943, and the U.S. Mixed Doubles in 1941.[2] He also won three English Open titles.
Halls of Fame
Bellak was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980[3] and the International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.[4]
Bellak, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[2]
He was inducted into the Florida Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996.[5]
Book
He authored Table Tennis—How A New Sport Was Born: The History of the Hungarian Team Winning 73 Gold Medals (1990).[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b Marshall, Ian (September 20, 2006). "Farewell to the Clown Prince of Table Tennis, Laszlo Bellak (1911-2006)". ITTF News. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Laszlo Bellak". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ "Laszlo ("Laci") Bellak--Part I". USA Table Tennis - USATT Hall of Fame -. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ . ITTF https://web.archive.org/web/20110617005939/http://www.ittf.com/museum/HallofFame.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 17, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
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(help) - ^ "Florida Table Tennis Hall of Fame Biographies". Swfloridatabletennis.com. Archived from the original on February 24, 2008. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- ^ "Newgy Industries - Table Tennis — How a New Sport was Born". www.newgy.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-29.
External links
- Jews in Sports bio
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- 1926: Zoltán Mechlovits & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1928: Zoltán Mechlovits & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1929: Stephen Kelen & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1930: Miklós Szabados & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1931: Miklós Szabados & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1932: Viktor Barna & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1933: Stephen Kelen & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1934: Miklós Szabados & Mária Mednyánszky (HUN)
- 1935: Viktor Barna & Anna Sipos (HUN)
- 1936: Miloslav Hamr & Gertrude Kleinová (TCH)
- 1937: Bohumil Váňa & Věra Votrubcová (TCH)
- 1938: Laszlo Bellak (HUN) & Wendy Woodhead (ENG)
- 1939: Bohumil Váňa & Věra Votrubcová (TCH)
- 1947: Ferenc Soos & Gizella Farkas (HUN)
- 1948: Dick Miles & Thelma Thall (USA)
- 1949: Ferenc Sidó & Gizella Farkas (HUN)
- 1950: Ferenc Sidó & Gizella Farkas (HUN)
- 1951: Bohumil Váňa (TCH) & Angelica Rozeanu (ROU)
- 1952: Ferenc Sidó (HUN) & Angelica Rozeanu (ROU)
- 1953: Ferenc Sidó (HUN) & Angelica Rozeanu (ROU)
- 1954: Ivan Andreadis (TCH) & Gizella Gervai (HUN)
- 1955: Kálmán Szepesi & Éva Kóczián (HUN)
- 1956: Erwin Klein & Leah Neuberger (USA)
- 1957: Ichiro Ogimura & Fujie Eguchi (JPN)
- 1959: Ichiro Ogimura & Fujie Eguchi (JPN)
- 1961: Ichiro Ogimura & Kimiyo Matsuzaki (JPN)
- 1963: Koji Kimura & Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi (JPN)
- 1965: Koji Kimura & Masako Seki (JPN)
- 1967: Nobuhiko Hasegawa & Noriko Yamanaka (JPN)
- 1969: Nobuhiko Hasegawa & Yasuko Konno (JPN)
- 1971: Zhang Xielin & Lin Huiqing (CHN)
- 1973: Liang Geliang & Li Li (CHN)
- 1975: Stanislav Gomozkov & Tatiana Ferdman (URS)
- 1977: Jacques Secrétin & Claude Bergeret (FRA)
- 1979: Liang Geliang & Ge Xin'ai (CHN)
- 1981: Xie Saike & Huang Junqun (CHN)
- 1983: Guo Yuehua & Ni Xialian (CHN)
- 1985: Cai Zhenhua & Cao Yanhua (CHN)
- 1987: Hui Jun & Geng Lijuan (CHN)
- 1989: Yoo Nam-kyu & Hyun Jung-hwa (KOR)
- 1991: Wang Tao & Liu Wei (CHN)
- 1993: Wang Tao & Liu Wei (CHN)
- 1995: Wang Tao & Liu Wei (CHN)
- 1997: Liu Guoliang & Wu Na (CHN)
- 1999: Ma Lin & Zhang Yingying (CHN)
- 2001: Qin Zhijian & Yang Ying (CHN)
- 2003: Ma Lin & Wang Nan (CHN)
- 2005: Wang Liqin & Guo Yue (CHN)
- 2007: Wang Liqin & Guo Yue (CHN)
- 2009: Li Ping & Cao Zhen (CHN)
- 2011: Zhang Chao & Cao Zhen (CHN)
- 2013: Kim Hyok-bong & Kim Jong (PRK)
- 2015: Xu Xin (CHN) & Yang Ha-eun (KOR)
- 2017: Maharu Yoshimura & Kasumi Ishikawa (JPN)
- 2019: Xu Xin & Liu Shiwen (CHN)
- 2021: Wang Chuqin & Sun Yingsha (CHN)
- 2023: Wang Chuqin & Sun Yingsha (CHN)