Table tennis world championship 1930
Table tennis world championship | ||||
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date | 21.-26.1. | |||
venue | Berlin | |||
winner | ||||
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Single (♂) | Victor Barna | |||
Single (♀) | Mária Mednyánszky | |||
Double (♂) |
Victor Barna Miklós Szabados |
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Double (♀) |
Mária Mednyánszky Anna Sipos |
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Doubles (mixed) |
Miklós Szabados Mária Mednyánszky |
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Team (♂) | Hungary |
The 4th table tennis world championship took place from January 21st to 26th, 1930 in Berlin ( Germany ). It was also the first table tennis world championship in Germany. The DTTB President Georg Lehmann was particularly committed to this .
The games were played during the day in the A. Wertheim department store and in the evening in the Great Hall of the Brothers Association House on Kurfürstenstrasse. Yugoslavia did not take part this time, but India entered again . So again 10 men's teams were represented.
Hungary won almost all team fights 5-0, only against Germany they lost an individual: Nikita Madjaroglou , a native of Greece , won against the Hungarian Miklós Szabados .
In the absence of defending champion Fred Perry (GB), the legendary Victor Barna became world champion for the first time. In the women's category, Mária Mednyánszky (Hungary) won the World Championship for the fourth time in a row.
Cutting off the Germans
The German team won against India 5: 4, Lithuania 5: 1 and Wales 5: 0, which was enough for 7th place. In the mixed, Ingeborg Carnatz came third together with Sándor Glancz .
Lilli Maria Peiser , who later became known as actress Lilli Palmer , lost in the round of 16 of the individual competition against future world champion Mária Mednyánszky .
In the men's category, Misha Zabludowski lost to Englishman Proffit, Deutelmoser won against T.Williams (Wales), Brainos against Todd (England), Nikita Madjaroglou against Hookins, Herbert Caro against Henry Wilbert (Sweden) and Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt against Pirzada (India) . Except for Madjaroglou and Caro, all of them were eliminated in the second round, the latter in round three.
ITTF Congress
The congress of the world association ITTF took place parallel to the games . This accepted the United States and Ireland into the ITTF.
Results
The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:
- Gentlemen: Brainos (Berlin), Deutelmoser, Kurt Entholt , H.Ladda (Kiel), H.Landsberg (Berlin), E. Mayer (Berlin), Riess, Siman (Berlin), H.Sperber (Berlin), I. Stein (Frankfurt), Misha Zabludowski (Berlin)
- Women: Ingeborg Carnatz , Deutelmoser, Foguth (Berlin), G.Gonschorek (Silesia), J.Henschel (Berlin), Herz, Astrid Krebsbach , Kuhlmann (Berlin), G.Kurz (Berlin), L.Lesta (Berlin), Lilli Maria Peiser , Mona Rüster , C. Seifert (Berlin), Erika Stettiner (Berlin)
literature
- Winfried Stöckmann: World Cup history , DTS magazine , 1986/8 pp. 26-27
- Report by FWStarke: Magazine Tennis & Golf, Sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1930/3 pp. 85–87 + 1930/4 pp. 117–118
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1 | Hungary | 6th | 4th | 4.5 | 14.5 |
2 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 4th | 5 |
3 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4th | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
5 | German Empire | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Total | 6th | 6th | 11 | 23 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/4 p. 9 + interesting facts, curiosities and records in table tennis ( Memento from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )