Sándor Glancz

Sándor Glancz (* July 14, 1908 in Budapest, † January 17, 1974 in New York City ) was a Hungarian table tennis player, the end of the 1920s and four times won the world title in the early 1930s.

Career

Sándor Glancz won in 1927 the Hungarian national championship in singles and doubles with Laszlo Bellak. Hungarian team champion he was in 1928 with the club Nemzeti Sport Club and 1933 with Duna Sports Club.

1928 won the double Glancz / Bellak in Berlin at the International German Championships.

From 1928 to 1934 Glancz was nominated for seven world championships. He won 1928, 1929 and 1933 gold with the Hungarian team. In 1933 he was also world champion in doubles with Victor Barna. Four times he reached an endgame, namely in 1929 and 1932 in a double with Laszlo Bellak, 1933 Mixed by Magda Gál and 1934 in a double with Tibor Házi. His best World Cup result in the individual scoring in 1933, when he reached the semi-finals and lost here against Victor Barna. Two more bronze medals he won in double, three in mixed doubles (1930 by the German Ingeborg Carnatz ).

In the ITTF World Ranking Glancz in 1928 led to fourth place.

Around 1930 Glancz lived for a time in Berlin. Mid-1930s, toured Sándor Glancz together with Victor Barna and the Americans Jimmy McClure and Coleman Clark by American cities to discharge mock battles among themselves and with local top players. Thousands of people attended this "Circus Tour Exhibition". 1937 acquired Glancz American citizenship.

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

Private

Glancz had six siblings.

Results from the ITTF database