Laszlo Bellak

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. 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.

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. and the International Table Tennis Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.

Bellak, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.

Book He authored Table Tennis—How A New Sport Was Born: The History of the Hungarian Team Winning 73 Gold Medals (1990).