World Table Tennis Championships

For the current tournament, see 2011 World Table Tennis Championships.

The World Table Tennis Championships are held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Seven events were included in the Championships. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even numbered years. The World Table Tennis Championships are currently held in odd numbered years including men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles events.

In the earlier days of the tournament, Hungary's men's team was a dominant force, winning the championships 12 times. From the 1960s onwards, China emerged as the new dominant power in this tournament and continues to dominate the sport until this day. China's men's team holds a record 17 world team championship titles.

In the 1950s, Japan's women team was a force to be reckoned with winning a total of 8 titles. The Chinese women started their strong grip on the world team championships from the 1970s onwards. They have only lost twice since 1975. China holds 17 women's team titles.

Trophies

There are 7 different trophies presented to the winners of each event, held by winning associations, and returned for the next world championships.

• Swaythling Cup for Men's Team: donated in 1926 by Lady Baroness Swaythling, mother of the first ITTF President, Ivor Montagu.
• Corbillon Cup for Women's Team: donated in 1933 by Marcel Corbillon, President of the French Table Tennis Association. The German women's team won the Cup in 1939, but the original Cup disappeared during Berlin occupation after World War II. The Corbillon Cup is now a replica made in 1949.
• St. Bride Vase for Men's Singles: donated in 1929 by C.Corti Woodcock, member of the exclusive St. Bride Table Tennis Club in London. After Fred Perry of England won the title in Budapest.
• Geist Prize for Women's Singles: donated in 1931 by Dr. Gaspar Geist, President of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association.
• Iran Cup for Men's Doubles: first presented at the 1947 World Championships by the Shah of Iran.
• W.J. Pope Trophy for Women's Doubles: donated in 1948 by the ITTF Honorary General Secretary W.J. Pope.
• Heydusek Cup for Mixed Doubles: donated in 1948 by Zdenek Heydusek, Secretary of the Czechoslovakia Association.

And the Egypt Cup is presented to the next host of world championships. The Cup was donated by King Farouk of Egypt in 1939, when the championships was held in Cairo, Egypt.

Venues

• 1926 – London
• 1928 – Stockholm
• 1929 – Budapest
• 1930 – Berlin
• 1931 – Budapest
• 1932 – Prague
• 1933 – Baden
• 1933 – December – Paris
• 1935 – Wembley
• 1936 – Prague
• 1937 – Baden
• 1938 – Wembley
• 1939 – Cairo
• 1947 – Paris
• 1948 – Wembley
• 1949 – Stockholm
• 1950 – Budapest
• 1951 – Vienna
• 1952 – Bombay
• 1953 – Bucharest

• 1954 – Wembley
• 1955 – Utrecht
• 1956 – Tokyo
• 1957 – Stockholm
• 1959 – Dortmund
• 1961 – Beijing
• 1963 – Prague
• 1965 – Ljubljana
• 1967 – Stockholm
• 1969 – Munich
• 1971 – Nagoya
• 1973 – Sarajevo
• 1975 – Calcutta
• 1977 – Birmingham
• 1979 – Pyongyang
• 1981 – Novi Sad
• 1983 – Tokyo
• 1985 – Gothenburg
• 1987 – New Delhi
• 1989 – Dortmund

• 1991 – Chiba City
• 1993 – Gothenburg
• 1995 – Tianjin
• 1997 – Manchester
• 1999 – Eindhoven – Individual
• 2000 – Kuala Lumpur – Team
• 2001 – Osaka
• 2003 – Paris – Individual
• 2004 – Doha – Team
• 2005 – Shanghai – Individual
• 2006 – Bremen – Team
• 2007 – Zagreb – Individual
• 2008 – Guangzhou – Team
• 2009 – Yokohama – Individual
• 2010 – Moscow – Team
• 2011 – Rotterdam – Individual
• 2012 – Dortmund – Team
• 2013 – Paris – Individual
• 2014 – Tokyo – Team

Results of Individual Events

The table below is a World Table Tennis Champions list of individual events (Men's and Women's Singles, Men's and Women's Doubles and Mixed).

Number	City (Year)	Singles		Doubles
		Men’s	Women’s	Men’s	Women’s	Mixed
51	Rotterdam (2011)	Zhang Jike	Ding Ning	Ma Long Xu Xin	Guo Yue Li Xiaoxia	Zhang Chao Cao Zhen
50	Yokohama (2009)	Wang Hao	Zhang Yining	Wang Hao Chen Qi		Li Ping Cao Zhen
49	Zagreb (2007)	Wang Liqin	Guo Yue	Ma Lin Chen Qi	Wang Nan Zhang Yining	Wang Liqin Guo Yue
48	Shanghai (2005)		Zhang Yining	Kong Linghui Wang Hao
47	Paris (2003)	Werner Schlager	Wang Nan	Wang Liqin Yan Sen		Ma Lin Wang Nan
46	Osaka (2001)	Wang Liqin			Wang Nan Li Ju	Qin Zhijian Yang Ying
45	Eindhoven (1999)	Liu Guoliang		Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang		Ma Lin Zhang Yingying
44	Manchester (1997)	Jan-Ove Waldner	Deng Yaping		Deng Yaping Yang Ying	Liu Guoliang Wu Na
43	Tianjin (1995)	Kong Linghui		Wang Tao Lü Lin	Deng Yaping Qiao Hong	Wang Tao Liu Wei
42	Gothenburg (1993)	Jean-Philippe Gatien	Hyun Jung-Hwa		Liu Wei Qiao Yunping
41	Chiba City (1991)	Jörgen Persson	Deng Yaping	Peter Karlsson Thomas von Scheele	Chen Zihe Gao Jun
40	Dortmund (1989)	Jan-Ove Waldner	Qiao Hong	Jörg Roßkopf Steffen Fetzner	Deng Yaping Qiao Hong	Yoo Nam-Kyu Hyun Jung-Hwa
39	New Delhi (1987)	Jiang Jialiang	He Zhili	Chen Longcan Wei Qingguang	Hyun Jung-Hwa Yang Young-Ja	Hui Jun Geng Lijuan
38	Gothenburg (1985)		Cao Yanhua	Mikael Appelgren Ulf Carlsson	Dai Lili Geng Lijuan	Cai Zhenhua Cao Yanhua
37	Tokyo (1983)	Guo Yuehua		Zoran Kalinić Dragutin Šurbek	Dai Lili Shen Jianping	Guo Yuehua Ni Xialian
36	Novi Sad (1981)		Tong Ling	Cai Zhenhua Li Zhenshi	Cao Yanhua Zhang Deying	Xie Saike Huang Junqun
35	Pyongyang (1979)	Seiji Ono	Ge Xinai	Dragutin Šurbek Anton Stipančić	Zhang Deying Zhang Li	Liang Geliang Ge Xinai
34	Birmingham (1977)	Mitsuru Kohno	Pak Yung-Sun	Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang	Pak Yong Ok Yang Ying	Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret
33	Calcutta (1975)	István Jónyer		István Jónyer Gabor Gergely	Maria Alexandru-Golopenta Shoko Takahashi	Stanislav Gomozkov Tatiana Ferdman
32	Sarajevo (1973)	Xi Enting	Hu Yulan	Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson	Maria Alexandru-Golopenta Miho Hamada	Liang Geliang Li Li
31	Nagoya (1971)	Stellan Bengtsson	Lin Huiqing	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Zheng Minzhi Lin Huiqing	Zhang Xielin Lin Huiqing
30	Munich (1969)	Shigeo Itoh	Toshiko Kowada	Hans Alser Kjell Johansson	Svetlana Fedorova-Grinberg Zoja Rudnova	Nobuhiko Hasegawa Yasuko Konno
29	Stockholm (1967)	Nobuhiko Hasegawa	Sachiko Morisawa		Sachiko Morisawa Shaeko Hirota	Nobuhiko Hasegawa Noriko Yamanaka
28	Ljubljana (1965)	Zhuang Zedong	Naoko Fukazu	Zhuang Zedong Xu Yinsheng	Zheng Minzhi Lin Huiqing	Koji Kimura Masako Seki
27	Prague (1963)		Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Zhang Xielin Wang Zhiliang	Kimiyo Matsuzaki Masako Seki	Koji Kimura Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi
26	Beijing (1961)		Qiu Zhonghui	Koji Kimura Nobuya Hoshino	Maria Alexandru-Golopenta Georgita Pitica-Strugaru	Ichiro Ogimura Kimiyo Matsuzaki
25	Dortmund (1959)	Rong Guotuan	Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Ichiro Ogimura Teruo Murakami	Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi Taeko Namba	Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi
24	Stockholm (1957)	Toshiaki Tanaka	Fujie Eguchi	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Stipek	Livia Mossoczy Agnes Simon
23	Tokyo (1956)	Ichiro Ogimura	Tomie Okawa	Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita	Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger-Thall
22	Utrecht (1955)	Toshiaki Tanaka	Angelica Rozeanu	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Stipek		Kálmán Szepesi Eva Koczian
21	Wembley (1954)	Ichiro Ogimura		Žarko Dolinar Vilim Harangozo	Rosalind Rowe Diane Scholer-Rowe	Ivan Andreadis Gizella Farkas
20	Bucharest (1953)	Ferenc Sido		Ferenc Sido József Kóczián	Angelica Rozeanu Gizella Farkas	Ferenc Sido Angelica Rozeanu
19	Bombay (1952)	Hiroji Satoh		Norikazu Fujii Tadaki Hayashi	Shizuki Narahara Tomie Nishimura
18	Vienna (1951)	Johnny Leach		Bohumil Vana Ivan Andreadis	Rosalind Rowe Diane Scholer-Rowe	Bohumil Vana Angelica Rozeanu
17	Budapest (1950)	Richard Bergmann		Ferenc Sido Ferenc Soos	Helen Elliot Dora Beregi	Ferenc Sido Gizella Farkas
16	Stockholm (1949)	Johnny Leach	Gizella Farkas	Ivan Andreadis Frantisek Tokar	Gizella Farkas Helen Elliot
15	Wembley (1948)	Richard Bergmann		Bohumil Vana Ladislav Stipek	Margaret Franks Vera Thomas-Dace	Richard Miles Thelma Thall
14	Paris (1947)	Bohumil Vana		Bohumil Vana Adolf Slar	Gizella Farkas Gertrude Pritzi	Ferenc Soos Gizella Farkas
13	Cairo (1939)	Richard Bergmann	Vlasta Depetrisova	Viktor Barna Richard Bergmann	Gertrude Pritzi Hilde Bussmann	Bohumil Vana Vera Votrubcova
12	Wembley (1938)	Bohumil Vana	Gertrude Pritzi	Sol Shiff James McClure	Vlasta Depetrisova Vera Votrubcova	Laszlo Bellak Wendy Woodhead
11	Baden (1937)	Richard Bergmann	Ruth Aarons Gertrude Pritzi	Robert Blattner James McClure		Bohumil Vana Vera Votrubcova
10	Prague (1936)	Stanislav Kolar	Ruth Aarons		Marie Kettnerová Marie Smidova-Masakova	Miloslav Hamr Gertrude Kleinová
9	Wembley (1935)	Viktor Barna	Marie Kettnerová	Viktor Barna Miklos Szabados	Maria Mednyanszky Anna Sipos	Viktor Barna Anna Sipos
8	Paris (1933)					Miklos Szabados Maria Mednyanszky
7	Baden (1933)		Anna Sipos	Viktor Barna Sandor Glancz		Istvan Kelen Maria Mednyanszky
6	Prague (1932)			Viktor Barna Miklos Szabados		Viktor Barna Anna Sipos
5	Budapest (1931)	Miklos Szabados	Maria Mednyanszky			Miklos Szabados Maria Mednyanszky
4	Berlin (1930)	Viktor Barna
3	Budapest (1929)	Fred Perry			Erika Metzger Mona Rüster	Istvan Kelen Anna Sipos
2	Stockholm (1928)	Zoltán Mechlovits		Alfred Liebster Robert Thum	Maria Mednyanszky Fanchette Flamm	Zoltán Mechlovits Maria Mednyanszky
1	London (1926)	Roland Jacobi		Roland Jacobi Daniel Pecsi
a.^ The champion of Woman's Singles in 1937 was declared vacant due to time limit rule in force at the time. In 2001, it was decided to declared the two players Co-Champions.

Results of Team Events

The table below is a World Table Tennis Champions list of teams events.

Edition	Year	Host City	Men's	Women's
50	2010	Moscow	China	Singapore
49	2008	Guangzhou	China	China
48	2006	Bremen	China	China
47	2004	Doha	China	China
46	2001	Osaka	China	China
45	2000	Kuala Lumpur	Sweden	China
44	1997	Manchester	China	China
43	1995	Tianjin	China	China
42	1993	Gothenburg	Sweden	China
41	1991	Chiba City	Sweden	South Korea North Korea
40	1989	Dortmund	Sweden	China
39	1987	New Delhi	China	China
38	1985	Gothenburg	China	China
37	1983	Tokyo	China	China
36	1981	Novi Sad	China	China
35	1979	Pyongyang	Hungary	China
34	1977	Birmingham	China	China
33	1975	Calcutta	China	China
32	1973	Sarajevo	Sweden	South Korea
31	1971	Nagoya	China	Japan
30	1969	Munich	Japan	Soviet Union
29	1967	Stockholm	Japan	Japan
28	1965	Ljubljana	China	China
27	1963	Prague	China	Japan
26	1961	Beijing	China	Japan
25	1959	Dortmund	Japan	Japan
24	1957	Stockholm	Japan	Japan
23	1956	Tokyo	Japan	Romania
22	1955	Utrecht	Japan	Romania
21	1954	Wembley	Japan	Japan
20	1953	Bucharest	England	Romania
19	1952	Bombay	Hungary	Japan
18	1951	Vienna	Czechoslovakia	Romania
17	1950	Budapest	Czechoslovakia	Romania
16	1949	Stockholm	Hungary	United States
15	1948	Wembley	Czechoslovakia	England
14	1947	Paris	Czechoslovakia	England
13	1939	Cairo	Czechoslovakia	Germany
12	1938	Wembley	Hungary	Czechoslovakia
11	1937	Baden	United States	United States
10	1936	Prague	Austria	Czechoslovakia
9	1935	Wembley	Hungary	Czechoslovakia
8	1933	Paris	Hungary	Germany
7	1933	Baden	Hungary
6	1932	Prague	Czechoslovakia
5	1931	Budapest	Hungary
4	1930	Berlin	Hungary
3	1929	Budapest	Hungary
2	1928	Stockholm	Hungary
1	1926	London	Hungary

Total Team Count (~2010)
Rank	Country	Men	Women	Total
1	China	17	17	34
2	Japan	7	8	15
3	Hungary	12	0	12
4	Czechoslovakia	6	3	9
5	Sweden	5	0	5
	Romania	0	5	5
7	United States	1	2	3
	England	1	2	3
8	Germany	0	2	2
	South Korea	0	2	2
11	Austria	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	1
	Singapore	0	1	1
	Soviet Union	0	1	1
Total		50	44	94

a.^ ^ The women's title in 1991 of United Korea team counts for both North Korea and South Korea.

See also

• Table tennis
• List of table tennis players
• Table Tennis European Championships
• Ping Pong Diplomacy

External links

• ITTF Statistics
• http://www.ittf.com/museum/worldteamchampions.pdf
• http://www.ittf.com/museum/
• Team World Championships Moscow 2010
• World Championships Rotterdam 2011