1926 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926.[1][2]

World Table Tennis Championships
Singles   Men   Women
Doubles   Men   Mixed  
Team   Men  
        Next    1928

The championships were originally held as the European Championships which was the same year that the International Table Tennis Federation was formed. It was retrospectively designated as the first World Championships.[3]

Medalists

Team
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team
Swaythling Cup
 Hungary
Roland Jacobi
Béla von Kehrling
Zoltán Mechlovits
Daniel Pecsi		  Austria
Paul Flussmann
Eduard Freudenheim
Munio Pillinger		  England
Charles Allwright
Bernard Bernstein
Percival Bromfield
Frank Burls
James Thompson
 India
Athar-Ali Fyzee
Hassan Ali Fyzee
A.M. Peermahomed
B.C. Singh
S.R.G. Suppiah

Individual
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
Roland Jacobi Zoltán Mechlovits Munio Pillinger
S.R.G. Suppiah
Women's singles
Mária Mednyánszky Doris Gubbins Anastasia Flussmann
Winifred Land
Men's doubles
 Roland Jacobi
Daniel Pecsi		 Zoltán Mechlovits
Béla von Kehrling		 Paul Flussmann
Munio Pillinger
Cyril Mossford
Hedley Penny
Mixed doubles
 Zoltán Mechlovits
Mária Mednyánszky		 Roland Jacobi
Linda Gleeson		 Eduard Freudenheim
Gertrude Wildam
H.A. Bennett
Winifred Land

References
  1. "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 310. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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