1939 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939.^[1]^[2]

Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing.^[3] Viktor Barna and Richard Bergmann played under the England flag for the first time.

Medalists[]

Team[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's team	Czechoslovakia Miloslav Hamr Rudolf Karlecek Václav Tereba Bohumil Váňa	Yugoslavia Žarko Dolinar Tibor Harangozo Adolf Herskovic Ladislav Hexner Max Marinko	England Ernest Bubley Ken Hyde Hyman Lurie Ken Stanley Arthur Wilmott
Corbillon Cup Women's team	Germany Hilde Bussmann Gertrude Pritzi	Czechoslovakia Vlasta Depetrisová Marie Kettnerová Věra Votrubcová	Romania Angelica Adelstein Sári Kolozsvári

Individual[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Richard Bergmann	Alojzy Ehrlich	Bohumil Váňa
Men's Singles	Richard Bergmann	Alojzy Ehrlich	Žarko Dolinar
Women's singles	Vlasta Depetrisová	Gertrude Pritzi	Samiha Naili
Women's singles	Vlasta Depetrisová	Gertrude Pritzi	Marie Kettnerová
Men's Doubles	Viktor Barna Richard Bergmann	Miloslav Hamr Josef Tartakower	Ken Hyde Hyman Lurie
Men's Doubles	Viktor Barna Richard Bergmann	Miloslav Hamr Josef Tartakower	Raoul Bedoc Michel Haguenauer
Women's Doubles	Hilde Bussmann Gertrude Pritzi	Angelica Adelstein Sári Kolozsvári	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová
Women's Doubles	Hilde Bussmann Gertrude Pritzi	Angelica Adelstein Sári Kolozsvári	Marie Kettnerová Samiha Naili
Mixed Doubles	Bohumil Váňa Věra Votrubcová	Václav Tereba Marie Kettnerová	Marcel Geargoura Hilde Bussmann
Mixed Doubles	Bohumil Váňa Věra Votrubcová	Václav Tereba Marie Kettnerová	Mansour Helmy Gertrude Pritzi

References[]

^ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "USA team - Abe Berenbaum". team USA.

External links[]

ITTF Museum

[1] "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.

[2] "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.

[3] "USA team - Abe Berenbaum". team USA.

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