1971 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships (31st) were held in Nagoya from March 28 to April 7, 1971.[1][2]

World Table Tennis Championships
Singles   Men   Women
Doubles   Men   Women   Mixed
Team   Men   Women
   Previous    1969     Next    1973

The Chinese players returned following a lengthy absence.[3][4]

The nations represented were Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People's Republic of China, England, West Germany Hungary, India, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Team
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team		  China
Li Furong
Li Jingguang
Liang Geliang
Xi Enting
Zhuang Zedong		  Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Tokio Tasaka		  Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Milivoj Karakašević
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek
Corbillon Cup
Women's team		  Japan
Yasuko Konno
Toshiko Kowada
Emiko Ohba
Yukie Ohzeki		  China
Li Li
Lin Huiqing
Lin Meiqun
Zheng Minzhi		  South Korea
Choi Jung-Sook
Chung Hyun-sook
Lee Ailesa
Na In-Sook

Individual
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Stellan Bengtsson Shigeo Itoh Xi Enting
Dragutin Šurbek
Women's singles Lin Huiqing Zheng Minzhi Ilona Vostova
Li Li
Men's doubles István Jónyer
Tibor Klampár		 Liang Geliang
Zhuang Zedong		 Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tokio Tasaka
Katsuyuki Abe
Yujiro Imano
Women's doubles Lin Huiqing
Zheng Minzhi		 Mieko Hirano
Reiko Sakamoto		 Miho Hamada
Yukie Ohzeki
Yukiko Kawamorita
Setsuko Kobori
Mixed doubles Zhang Xielin
Lin Huiqing		 Antun Stipančić
Maria Alexandru		 Eberhard Schöler
Diane Schöler
Tokuyasu Nishii
Mieko Fukuno

See also

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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