1969 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Munich from April 17 to April 27, 1969.[1][2] It was the 30th edition to be contested.

World Table Tennis Championships
Singles   Men   Women
Doubles   Men   Women   Mixed
Team   Men   Women
   Previous    1967     Next    1971

During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism and were denied places at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships and 1969 World Table Tennis Championships. Players such as Jung Kuo-tuan were persecuted and he committed suicide in 1968. Had China competed in both championships and not lost the impetus gained in the previous decade they would surely have dominated the World Championships.[3][4]

Medalists

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team
 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Kenji Kasai
Mitsuru Kono
 West Germany
Bernt Jansen
Wilfried Lieck
Martin Ness
Eberhard Schöler
 Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek
Edvard Vecko
Corbillon Cup
Women's team
 Soviet Union
Laima Amelina
Svetlana Grinberg
Rita Pogosova
Zoja Rudnova
 Romania
Maria Alexandru
Carmen Crișan
Eleonora Mihalca
 Japan
Saeko Hirota
Yasuko Konno
Toshiko Kowada
Sachiko Morisawa

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Shigeo Itoh Eberhard Schöler Kenji Kasai
Tokio Tasaka
Women's singles Toshiko Kowada Gabriele Geissler Maria Alexandru
Miho Hamada
Men's doubles Hans Alsér
Kjell Johansson
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tokio Tasaka
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Anatoly Amelin
Stanislav Gomozkov
Women's doubles Svetlana Grinberg
Zoja Rudnova
Maria Alexandru
Eleonora Mihalca
Choi Hwan-Hwan
Choi Jung-Sook
Jitka Karlíková
Ilona Voštová
Mixed doubles Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Yasuko Konno
Mitsuru Kono
Saeko Hirota
Shigeo Itoh
Toshiko Kowada
Denis Neale
Mary Shannon-Wright

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. "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
  4. Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118133.
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