1956 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from April 2 to April 11, 1956.[1][2]

World Table Tennis Championships
Singles   Men   Women
Doubles   Men   Women   Mixed
Team   Men   Women
   Previous    1955     Next    1957

Medalists

Team
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team		  Japan
Ichiro Ogimura
Toshiaki Tanaka
Yoshio Tomita
Keisuke Tsunoda		  Czechoslovakia
Ivan Andreadis
Ladislav Štípek
Václav Tereba
Ludvík Vyhnanovský		  China
Hu Ping-chuan
Chiang Yung-Ning
Tsen Huai-Kuang
Wang Chuanyao
Yang Jai-Hua
 Romania
Matei Gantner
Tiberiu Harasztosi
Paul Pesch
Mircea Popescu
Toma Reiter
Corbillon Cup
Women's Team		  Romania
Angelica Rozeanu
Ella Zeller		  England
Ann Haydon
Diane Rowe
Jill Rook		  Japan
Fujie Eguchi
Tomi Okawa
Yoshiko Tanaka
Kiiko Watanabe

Individual
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita
Akio Nohira
Women's singles Tomie Okawa Kiiko Watanabe Fujie Eguchi
Ella Zeller
Men's doubles Ichiro Ogimura
Yoshio Tomita		 Ivan Andreadis
Ladislav Štípek		 Václav Tereba
Ludvik Vyhnanovsky
Toshiaki Tanaka
Keisuke Tsunoda
Women's doubles Angelica Rozeanu
Ella Zeller		 Fujie Eguchi
Kiiko Watanabe		 Tomi Okawa
Yoshiko Tanaka
Ann Haydon
Diane Rowe
Mixed doubles Erwin Klein
Leah Neuberger		 Ivan Andreadis
Ann Haydon		 Motoo Fujii
Yoshiko Tanaka
Toma Reiter
Ella Zeller

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.
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