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.

1969 World Table Tennis
Championships
Events
Singlesmenwomen
Doublesmenwomenmixed
Teammenwomen

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

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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