1969 World Table Tennis Championships
1969 edition of the World Table Tennis Championships
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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.
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 |
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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
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]
- ^ "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
- ^ Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118133.
External links
- ITTF Museum