1959 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund from March 27 to April 5, 1959.^[1][2]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Japan Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura	Hungary Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc Sidó	China Jiang Yongning Rong Guotuan Wang Chuanyao Xu Yinsheng Yang Ruihua
			South Vietnam Le Van Tiet Mai Van Hoa Tran Canh Duoc Tran Van Lieu
Women's team	Japan Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	South Korea Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyong-Ja Hwang Yool-Ja Lee Chong-Hi	China Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying Ye Peiqiong

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Rong Guotuan	Ferenc Sidó	Richard Miles
			Ichiro Ogimura
Women's singles	Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Fujie Eguchi	Qiu Zhonghui
			Éva Kóczián
Men's doubles	Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura	Ladislav Štípek Ludvik Vyhnanovsky	Zoltán Berczik Laszlo Foldy
			Hans Alsér Ake Rakell
Women's doubles	Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Ann Haydon Diane Rowe
			Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying
Mixed doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi	Teruo Murakami Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Wang Chuanyao Sun Meiying
			Zoltán Berczik Gizella Lantos

References

1. "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
2. "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

External links

• ITTF Museum