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]

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	Stellan Bengtsson	Shigeo Itoh	Xi Enting
Men's singles	Stellan Bengtsson	Shigeo Itoh	Dragutin Šurbek
Women's singles	Lin Huiqing	Zheng Minzhi	Ilona Vostova
Women's singles	Lin Huiqing	Zheng Minzhi	Li Li
Men's doubles	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Liang Geliang Zhuang Zedong	Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tokio Tasaka
Men's doubles	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Liang Geliang Zhuang Zedong	Katsuyuki Abe Yujiro Imano
Women's doubles	Lin Huiqing Zheng Minzhi	Mieko Hirano Reiko Sakamoto	Miho Hamada Yukie Ohzeki
Women's doubles	Lin Huiqing Zheng Minzhi	Mieko Hirano Reiko Sakamoto	Yukiko Kawamorita Setsuko Kobori
Mixed doubles	Zhang Xielin Lin Huiqing	Antun Stipančić Maria Alexandru	Eberhard Schöler Diane Schöler
Mixed doubles	Zhang Xielin Lin Huiqing	Antun Stipančić Maria Alexandru	Tokuyasu Nishii Mieko Fukuno

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

[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.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[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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1971 World Table Tennis Championships

Events
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
Team	men	women
1969 1973
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v t World Table Tennis Championships
Individual and team	London 1926 Stockholm 1928 Budapest 1929 Berlin 1930 Budapest 1931 Prague 1932 Baden 1933 Paris 1934 Wembley 1935 Prague 1936 Baden 1937 Wembley 1938 Cairo 1939 Paris 1947 Wembley 1948 Stockholm 1949 Budapest 1950 Vienna 1951 Bombay 1952 Bucharest 1953 Wembley 1954 Utrecht 1955 Tokyo 1956 Stockholm 1957 Dortmund 1959 Beijing 1961 Prague 1963 Ljubljana 1965 Stockholm 1967 Munich 1969 Nagoya 1971 Sarajevo 1973 Calcutta 1975 Birmingham 1977 Pyongyang 1979 Novi Sad 1981 Tokyo 1983 Gothenburg 1985 New Delhi 1987 Dortmund 1989 Chiba 1991 Gothenburg 1993 Tianjin 1995 Manchester 1997 Osaka 2001
Individual only	Eindhoven 1999 Paris 2003 Shanghai 2005 Zagreb 2007 Yokohama 2009 Rotterdam 2011 Paris 2013 Suzhou 2015 Düsseldorf 2017 Budapest 2019 Houston 2021 Durban 2023
Team only	Kuala Lumpur 2000 Doha 2004 Bremen 2006 Guangzhou 2008 Moscow 2010 Dortmund 2012 Tokyo 2014 Kuala Lumpur 2016 Halmstad 2018 ~~Busan 2020~~ Chengdu 2022 Busan 2024
List of medalists