1971 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships (31st) were held in Nagoya from March 28 to April 7, 1971.[1][2]

1971 World Table Tennis
Championships
Events
Singlesmenwomen
Doublesmenwomenmixed
Teammenwomen

The Chinese players returned following a lengthy absence.[3][4]

The nations represented were Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People's Republic of China, England, West Germany Hungary, India, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, Romania, the Soviet Union, Sweden and Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Team
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team		  China
Li Furong
Li Jingguang
Liang Geliang
Xi Enting
Zhuang Zedong		  Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Tokio Tasaka		  Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Milivoj Karakašević
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek
Corbillon Cup
Women's team		  Japan
Yasuko Konno
Toshiko Kowada
Emiko Ohba
Yukie Ohzeki		  China
Li Li
Lin Huiqing
Lin Meiqun
Zheng Minzhi		  South Korea
Choi Jung-Sook
Chung Hyun-sook
Lee Ailesa
Na In-Sook

Individual
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Japan Shigeo Itoh China Xi Enting
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Šurbek
Women's singles China Lin Huiqing China Zheng Minzhi Czechoslovakia Ilona Vostova
China Li Li
Men's doubles Hungary István Jónyer
Hungary Tibor Klampár		 China Liang Geliang
China Zhuang Zedong		 Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Japan Tokio Tasaka
Japan Katsuyuki Abe
Japan Yujiro Imano
Women's doubles China Lin Huiqing
China Zheng Minzhi		 Japan Mieko Hirano
Japan Reiko Sakamoto		 Japan Miho Hamada
Japan Yukie Ohzeki
Japan Yukiko Kawamorita
Japan Setsuko Kobori
Mixed doubles China Zhang Xielin
China Lin Huiqing		 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Antun Stipančić
Romania Maria Alexandru		 West Germany Eberhard Schöler
West Germany Diane Schöler
Japan Tokuyasu Nishii
Japan Mieko Fukuno

See also

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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