Table tennis world championship 1926
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | December 6-12 | ||
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 London
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| Single (♂) |
 Roland Jacobi
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| Single (♀) |
Mária Mednyánszky
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| Double (♂) |
Roland Jacobi Dániel Pécsi
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Zoltán Mechlovits Mária Mednyánszky
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| Team (♂) |
Hungary
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The 1st table tennis world championship took place from December 6th to 12th 1926 in London (Great Britain). The main venues were Memorial Hall (Farringdon Street), but also an Indian student residence (Gower Street), Unity House (Euston Road) and Herga LTC (Harrow).
General
This tournament was originally planned as a European championship. However, on December 7, 1926 , the world association ITTF allowed eight players from India to participate. This upgraded the event to a world championship.
The games were played on six tables. These tables were a little higher than today's, as was the 17 cm net. Entry was free for the audience.
The women’s team and doubles championships were foregone because the organizers believed that there would not be enough participants. The women only played for the World Championships in singles and in mixed. No lady from Germany took part.
Team competitions
Men's
Seven nations took part in the men's competition, namely England, India, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Wales and Austria. The Indians were favored, although their best player Prashant N. Nanda was missing. Each nation could nominate up to five players for the team competition. In each team match, three players were used; all nine singles were held. The teams played everyone against everyone.
Because of their role as favorites, the Indians played the opening game against hosts England on December 6th. India won 5-4. With five wins each, Austria and Hungary became group winners. In the play-off, Hungary won 5: 4 and was thus team world champion.
The trophy worth 300 pounds donated Lady Swaythling (Lady Gladys Goldsmid Montagu Swaythling) (1879-1965), the mother of the tournament organizer Ivor Montagu , and presented it personally to the victorious Hungarian team. After her, the TT World Team Championship is also called the Swaythling Cup .
| space | nation | OUT | CZE | CLOSELY | GER | HUN | IND | WHALE | Victories |
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| 1st – 2nd | Austria | 7: 2 | 4: 5 | 9-0 | 5: 4 | 7: 2 | 7: 2 | 5 | |
| 6th | Czechoslovakia | 2: 7 | 0: 9 | 5: 4 | 1: 8 | 2: 7 | 2: 7 | 1 | |
| 3rd to 4th | England | 5: 4 | 9-0 | 8: 1 | 2: 7 | 4: 5 | 5: 4 | 4th | |
| 7th | Germany | 0: 9 | 4: 5 | 1: 8 | 0: 9 | 4: 5 | 2: 7 | 0 | |
| 1st – 2nd | Hungary | 4: 5 | 8: 1 | 7: 2 | 9-0 | 8: 1 | 7: 2 | 5 | |
| 3rd to 4th | India | 2: 7 | 7: 2 | 5: 4 | 5: 4 | 1: 8 | 5: 4 | 4th | |
| 5. | Wales | 2: 7 | 7: 2 | 4: 5 | 7: 2 | 2: 7 | 4: 5 | 2 | |
| Play-off Hungary - Austria 5: 4 | |||||||||
Individual competitions
Men's
64 men competed in singles. The two Hungarians Roland Jacobi and Zoltán Mechlovits qualified for the final . Jacobi played in long creased trousers and a white shirt - he was persuaded to at least take off the bow tie - and was the first table tennis world champion after the 3-0 victory.
In doubles the field consisted of 27 pairings, in mixed of 14 pairs.
Ladies
16 women competed, 12 of them from England, as well as Anastasia Flußmann and Gertrude Wildam from Austria, Doris Gubbins from Wales and Mária Mednyánszky from Hungary.
A great winning streak began for Mária Mednyánszky . She should win the world championship 7 times, five times in a row. Against Doris Gubbins she won the final in two sets, with the second set being decided by a missed serve by Gubbins at 20:19.
Doubles and mixed
Cutting off the Germans
Men's team
The German team did not win a team fight and took last place. The high 9: 0 defeats against Austria and Hungary were remarkable. Against Czechoslovakia and India they lost 4: 5, the results against Wales (2: 7) and England (1: 8) were clearer.
Men's singles
Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt won against Percival Bromfield . Then he came to the last sixteen without a fight, where he lost to Munio Pillinger .
Daniel Prenn won against CJ Ax (England) and then lost to W. Ernest (India).
Eliminated in round 1 were Curt Gerstmann (against AE Stillwell, England) and FL Hoppe (against William Hewitt, England).
Men's doubles
Prenn / Lindenstaedt came on twice without a fight and were then defeated by Cyril Mossford / Hedley Penny (Wales).
Gerstmann / Zinn had bye in round 1. Then they failed because of the British HA Benett / George J. Ross.
useful information
- The Englishman Charles Allwright was also a well-known cricketer.
- Oldest participant: Percival Bromfield (1886–1947) from Beckenham (England) impressed with topspin.
- The ITTF Congress introduced two possible ways of counting : One is the one that has been binding since 1928 with 21 points per set, and the other is tennis-like, with one set consisting of six games. Each national association could decide according to which scheme it wanted to count.
- Maria Mednyánszky was late for her first individual because she was misinformed about when to start and instead watched a soccer game. But she was allowed to do this.
- Austria's protest against the linoleum floor, which allegedly inhibits their attacking game, was rejected.
Results
| competition | rank | winner |
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| Team men | 1. | Hungary ( Roland Jacobi , Béla von Kehrling , Zoltán Mechlovits , Dániel Pécsi ) |
| 2. | Austria ( Eduard Freudenheim , Paul Flußmann , Munio Pillinger ) | |
| 3. | England ( Percival Bromfield , Charles Allwright , Bernard Bernstein , Frank John Burls , James Thompson ) | |
| India (SRG Suppiah, AM Peermahomed, Hassan-Ali Fyzee , Athar-Ali Fyzee, BC Singh) | ||
| 5. | Wales (Solly Stone, Cyril Mossford, Hedley Penny, CF Williams) | |
| 6th | Czechoslovakia ( Zdeněk Heydušek , Antonín Maleček , Bohumil Hájek, Jaroslav Kaucký) | |
| 7th | Germany ( Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt , Curt Gerstmann , Daniel Prenn ) | |
| Team women | not applicable | |
| Men's singles | 1. | Roland Jacobi - HUN |
| 2. | Zoltán Mechlovits - HUN | |
| 3. | Munio Pillinger - AUT | |
| SRG Suppiah - IND | ||
| Ladies singles | 1. | Mária Mednyánszky - HUN |
| 2. | Doris Gubbins - WHALE | |
| 3. | Anastasia Flußmann - AUT | |
| Winifred Land - ENG | ||
| Men's doubles | 1. | Roland Jacobi / Dániel Pécsi - HUN |
| 2. | Zoltán Mechlovits / Béla von Kehrling - HUN | |
| 3. | Munio Pillinger / Paul Flußmann - AUT | |
| Hedley Penny / Cyril Mossford - WAL | ||
| Mixed | 1. | Zoltán Mechlovits / Mária Mednyánszky - HUN |
| 2. | Roland Jacobi (HUN) / G. Gleeson (ENG) | |
| 3. | Eduard Freudenheim / Gertrude Wildam - AUT | |
| HA Bennett / Winifred Land (ENG) |
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
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5 | 2.5 | 0 | 7.5 |
| 2 |
 Austria
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0 | 1 | 4th | 5 |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Wales
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0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4th |
England
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0 | 0.5 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 5 |
 British India
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0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20th | |
literature
- Susanne Heuing: Time travel - 86 years ago ... , tischtennis magazine , 2012/8 page 61
- The First World Championships , The Table Tennis Collector, Winter 2003, Issue 33, Pages 10-14 engl. (PDF; 7.3 MB)
- The First World Championships , The Table Tennis Collector, Spring 2004, Issue 34, Page 3 engl. (PDF; 6.5 MB)
- The First World Championships , The Table Tennis Collector, Spring 2005, Issue 37, Pages 14-15 engl. (PDF; 4.2 MB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The First World Championships , The Table Tennis Collector, Issue 15, p. 13 engl. (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ The Times , December 13, 1926, p. 7
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/10 p. 27
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/2 p. 45
- ^ (Wiener) Sporttagblatt, December 14, 1926, page 4 Online (accessed November 9, 2016)