Sándor Glancz

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Sándor Glancz (born July 14, 1908 in Budapest , † January 17, 1974 in New York City ) was a Hungarian table tennis player who won four world titles in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Career

Sándor Glancz won the Hungarian national championship in 1927 in singles and doubles with László Bellák . He became Hungarian team champion in 1928 with the Nemzeti Sport Club and in 1933 with the Duna Sport Club.

In 1928, the Glancz / Bellak doubles won the international German championships in Berlin.

From 1928 to 1934 Glancz was nominated for seven world championships . He won gold with the Hungarian team in 1928 , 1929 and 1933 . In 1933 he was also world champion in doubles with Victor Barna . He reached a final four times, namely in 1929 and 1932 in doubles with László Bellák , in 1933 in mixed with Magda Gál and in 1934 in doubles with Tibor Házi . His best individual World Cup result he achieved in 1933 when he reached the semi-finals and lost here to Victor Barna. He won two more bronze medals in doubles and three in mixed (1930 with the German Ingeborg Carnatz ).

In the ITTF world rankings , Glancz was ranked fourth in 1928.

Around 1930 Glancz lived temporarily in Berlin. In the mid-1930s, Sándor Glancz toured with Victor Barna and the Americans Jimmy McClure and Coleman Clark through American cities to play exhibition matches among themselves and against local top players. Thousands of spectators attended this "Circus Tour Exhibition". In 1937, Glancz became an American citizen.

In later years Glancz increasingly suffered from heart problems. In 1961, a heart attack forced him to stay in hospital for six weeks. In January 1971 he suffered a heart attack during a table tennis match in New York, which he did not survive.

Private

Glancz had six siblings.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN World Championship 1934 Paris FRA Quarter finals silver last 16
HUN World Championship 1933 to bathe AUT Semifinals gold silver 1
HUN World Championship 1932 Prague TCH last 16 silver Semifinals
HUN World Championship 1931 Budapest HUN Quarter finals Agony Semifinals
HUN World Championship 1930 Berlin FRG last 32 Semifinals Semifinals
HUN World Championship 1929 Budapest HUN last 16 silver Quarter finals 1
HUN World Championship 1928 Stockholm SWE Quarter finals Semifinals no participants 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 134
  2. ↑ Historical world rankings (accessed on September 23, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
  3. ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1930/3 p. 88
  4. ↑ Tim Boggan : LASZLO ("LACI") BELLAK - PART I ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 28, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.teamusa.org
  5. ↑ Sándor Glancz Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 23, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Glancz, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1974
Place of death New York City