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.

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

References[]

^ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
^ Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118133.

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. Retrieved 13 April 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}

[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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1969 World Table Tennis Championships

Events
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
Team	men	women
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