Table tennis at the 1972 Summer Paralympics

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Table tennis at the 1972 Summer Paralympics consisted of nineteen events, ten for men and nine for women.

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	4	3	1	8
2	Austria (AUT)	4	1	2	7
3	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	0	3
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	4	8	14
5	Switzerland (SUI)	2	1	3	6
6	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	3	5
7	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
8	Israel (ISR)	1	0	2	3
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
10	France (FRA)	0	1	4	5
	United States (USA)	0	1	4	5
12	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
15	Canada (CAN)	0	0	3	3
16	Norway (NOR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (16 nations)		19	17	36	72

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles 1A	Switzerland	Nilsson  Sweden	Switzerland
			Rainer Küschall  Switzerland
Singles 1B	South Korea	France	Great Britain
			Netherlands
Singles 2	South Korea	Leslie Lam  Hong Kong	Italy
			Norway
Singles 3	West Germany	West Germany	France
			G. Monoghan  Great Britain
Singles 4	Baruch Hagai  Israel	Michael Dempsey  United States	Triche  France
			P. Lyall  Great Britain
Doubles 1A	Switzerland (SUI) Rainer K��schall	West Germany (FRG) Konkel Sackerer	West Germany (FRG)
			United States (USA) Nichol
Doubles 1B	West Germany (FRG) B. Boerstler G. Laner	West Germany (FRG) Steiner	Great Britain (GBR) T. Taylor
			Netherlands (NED)
Teams 2	West Germany (FRG)	Great Britain (GBR)	Sweden (SWE)
			Hong Kong (HKG)
Teams 3	West Germany (FRG)	Italy (ITA) Giovanni Ferraris	Sweden (SWE)
			Austria (AUT)
Teams 4	South Korea (KOR)	Sweden (SWE)	United States (USA)
			Great Britain (GBR)

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles 1A	Aria de Vries-Noordam  Netherlands	Switzerland	Demerakas  Canada
			Angel  Israel
Singles 1B	Rosa Sicari  Italy	Jane Blackburn  Great Britain	Norway
			Tournier  France
Singles 2	Austria	Austria	France
			G. Matthews  Great Britain
Singles 3	Austria	J. Swann  Great Britain	Michal Escapa  Israel
			Gwen Buck  Great Britain
Singles 4	Carol Bryant  Great Britain	L. Verbrauwe  Belgium	Irene Schmidt  Netherlands
			O'Brien  Great Britain
Doubles 1A-1B	Great Britain (GBR) Anderson Jane Blackburn	Norway (NOR) A. Klausen	Switzerland (SUI)
			Canada (CAN) Demerakas S. Long
Teams 2	Austria (AUT)	Ireland (IRL)	United States (USA)
			Great Britain (GBR)
Teams 3	Austria (AUT)	Great Britain (GBR)	Canada (CAN)
			United States (USA)
Teams 4	Netherlands (NED) Irene Schmidt	Sweden (SWE)	Austria (AUT)

References[]

• Table Tennis at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (Heidelberg) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)