1977 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Birmingham at the then newly opened National Exhibition Centre, from March 28 to April 7, 1977.

Organisation[]

During these Championships, players and officials stayed at the Student Accommodation at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, from where coaches took all participants backwards and forwards between here and the NEC daily for the two weeks of the championships. Although run by the ETTA for the ITTF, headed by Mr Maurice Goldstien, Management, Tournament & Coaching Committee members from the BDTTA (Birmingham & District Table Tennis Association) played a major part with six months of preparatory work prior to this event, the first to be held at the NEC. It was also from the BDTTA that many gave freely of their time to help run this championship, through their expertise of running many other local annual table tennis tournaments, such at the 3 star Midlands Open and Birmingham Closed.^[1]^[2]

Results[]

Team[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Wang Jun	Japan Tetsuo Inoue Mitsuru Kono Masahiro Maehara Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka	Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Ake Gronlund Kjell Johansson Roger Lagerfeldt Ulf Thorsell
Corbillon Cup Women's team	China Ge Xinai Zhang Deying Zhang Li Zhu Xiangyun	South Korea Chung Hyun-sook Kim Soon-ok Lee Ailesa Lee Ki Won	North Korea Kim Chang-Ae Li Song Suk Pak Yong-Ok Pak Yung-Sun

Individual[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Mitsuru Kohno	Guo Yuehua	Liang Geliang
Men's singles	Mitsuru Kohno	Guo Yuehua	Huang Liang
Women's singles	Pak Yung-Sun	Zhang Li	Ge Xin'ai
Women's singles	Pak Yung-Sun	Zhang Li	Zhang Deying
Men's doubles	Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang	Huang Liang Lu Yuansheng	Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson
Men's doubles	Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang	Huang Liang Lu Yuansheng	Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek
Women's doubles	Pak Yong-ok Yang Ying	Zhu Xiangyun Wei Lijie	Zhang Li Ge Xin'ai
Women's doubles	Pak Yong-ok Yang Ying	Zhu Xiangyun Wei Lijie	Lee Ki Won Kim Soon-ok
Mixed doubles	Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret	Tokio Tasaka Sachiko Yokota	Li Zhenshi Yan Guili
Mixed doubles	Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret	Tokio Tasaka Sachiko Yokota	Lee Sang-kuk Lee Ki Won

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]}

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]}

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1977 World Table Tennis Championships

Events
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
Team	men	women
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