Karl Andreka Prize

year	nation	Points
1931	Hungary	42
	Germany	4.5
	Austria	2
	ČSR	1.5
1932	Hungary	41.5
	ČSR	5
	Germany	1.5
	Austria	1
	England	1
1933	Hungary	40

The Karl Andreka Prize was a challenge cup in table tennis that was awarded in the 1930s to a nation that was most successful at a world championship according to a set nation ranking.

In this national ranking, points were awarded for successes in the individual competitions (singles, doubles, mixed). A nation received five points for a gold medal from one of its members. There were three points for silver and one point for third or fourth place. If a medal was won by a double or mixed pairing from different nations, then each nation received half a point. The winner was whoever had the highest total of points. If a nation won the cup three times in a row, it was allowed to keep it. The prize was donated in 1932 by Bela Popper, then President of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association .

Hungary won three consecutive awards at the World Championships in 1931, 1932 and 1933 and therefore kept the trophy. According to the sources given, the nations achieved the results shown here. The cup was not played after 1933.

Little is known about the namesake Karl Andreka - also Karel Andreika. He was president of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association .

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• Q1: Agenda for the annual general meeting of the ITTF (AGM Agenda) - Prague 1932, Item 12 , ITTF Museum - with handwritten note (accessed on April 19, 2014)
• Q2: Handbook 1932-33 of the world association ITTF , ITTF Museum page 9 point 8 - without handwritten note (accessed on April 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} This rating is not understandable based on the known results
2. ↑ The gift of the 'Karl Andreka' Prize from Herr Bela Popper, President of the Hungarian TTA - Source Q1
3. ↑ http://pingpongbuch.de/worldchampionship/chronology/07-WM.html (accessed on September 7, 2010)
4. ^ Walter Grein: Table tennis , Verlag Deutscher Tischtennis-Sport, Hanover 1953, page 22