Table tennis world championship 1929
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | 14.-21.1. | |||
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 Budapest
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| Single (♂) |
 Fred Perry
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| Single (♀) |
Mária Mednyánszky
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| Double (♂) |
Victor Barna Miklós Szabados
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| Double (♀) |
 Erika Metzger Mona Rüster
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| Doubles (mixed) |
István Kelen Anna Sipos
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| Team (♂) |
Hungary
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The 3rd table tennis world championship took place from January 14th to 21st, 1929 in Budapest ( Hungary ). The Hungarian railway company provided the Sall Vasas as a venue.
Overview
For the first time, Yugoslavia , Romania and Lithuania took part in the World Cup. However, some Yugoslavs had to recognize their great deficit and left early. For the first time, the team fights were ended after the fifth team point (in the previous world championships, the remaining pairings were still played). The Hungarian team played very well, which was proven by the overall result of 45: 5 points and the smooth 5: 0 victory in the final against Austria .
In the men's singles, the Hungarians were not the world champions for the first time: The winner was Fred Perry from England . In the women's category, the Hungarian Mária Mednyánszky won the world championship for the third time in a row. For the first time the name Victor Barna appeared, who won the men's doubles.
Cutting off the Germans
The German team improved by one place compared to the previous World Cup and finished sixth, with wins over Lithuania, Yugoslavia and Romania. The first gold medal for Germany went to the women's pair Erika Metzger / Mona Rüster , who unexpectedly won in the semifinals against Mednyanszky / Sipos after falling 2-0 down.
useful information
- Fred Perry is better known as England's best tennis player . After this World Cup, he concentrated on tennis. As early as the summer of 1929 he qualified for participation in the Wimbledon tournament. In 1934, 1935 and 1936 he won the Wimbledon finals - scoffers conclude from this that it is three times more difficult to become world champion in table tennis than world champion in tennis. After him no English tennis player could win Wimbledon.
- Adrian Haydon was the father of Ann Haydon-Jones , who stood and lost in three finals at the TT World Cup in 1957 and who then switched to tennis and later won Wimbledon. His wife Marjorie Haydon, who was eliminated by Marie Masáková , also took part in the World Cup .
- Anna Sipos was the first woman to play with a penholder stick position.
- The trophy for the men's singles, the St. Bride Vase, was donated by C. Corti Woodcock (member of the St. Bride Table Tennis Club in London)
Results
The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:
- Ladies: Ingeborg Carnatz , Erika Metzger , Mona Rüster
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} Hungary
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4th | 3 | 7th | 14th |
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England
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1 | 0 | 3 | 4th |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4th |
 Austria
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0 | 3 | 1 | 4th |
| Total | 6th | 6th | 11 | 23 | |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Muzeum To byl hráč! (biography Bohumila Váni) ( Memento from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Neobyčejná kariéra Marie Schmiedtové-Šmídové-Masákové-Mikové
- ^ The World Championship Trophies - A Retrospective