Table tennis world championship 1931

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Table tennis Table tennis world championship
1930 GermanyGermany ← WM 1931 → 1932 Czechoslovakia 1920Czechoslovakia
date 10-15.2.
venue HungaryHungary Budapest
winner
Single (♂) HungaryHungary Miklós Szabados
Single (♀) HungaryHungary Mária Mednyánszky
Double (♂) HungaryHungary Victor Barna Miklós Szabados
HungaryHungary
Double (♀) HungaryHungary Mária Mednyánszky Anna Sipos
HungaryHungary
Doubles (mixed) HungaryHungary Miklós Szabados Mária Mednyánszky
HungaryHungary
Team (♂) HungaryHungary Hungary

The 5th table tennis world championship took place from February 10th to 15th, 1931 (some sources wrongly date the World Championships to January 10th to 15th ) in Budapest (Hungary) in the Sportelet hall. This was the second time (after 1929) that Budapest hosted the World Cup.

Overview

The Hungarians dominated the tournament. They took first place in all disciplines. Among the eleven participating men's teams, the Golden Team Hungary again proved to be far superior, which the balance of 50: 2 points clearly showed.

In general, there were the same winners as in the previous world championship - with one exception: Miklós Szabados became world champion in the men's singles . In retrospect, his final win over Victor Barna was a great achievement, as it was Barna's only defeat in the six years between 1930 and 1935.

The German team took 5th place and did not end up in the lower half of the table for the first time at a World Cup. Nikita Madjaroglou had Greek citizenship, but appeared with the German team because Greece was not yet a member of the International TT Federation. In the singles he defeated László Bellák and Lajos Dávid , but then lost to Victor Barna despite 2-0 lead.

In the women's singles, Mona Müller-Rüster from Germany took second place. The first - for the fifth time in a row - was the Hungarian Mária Mednyánszky .

useful information

  • Dr. Gaspar Geist (President of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association ) donated the trophy for the women's singles, the Geist Prize .
  • The ITTF Congress rejected a proposal from England to organize the World Championships only every two years for reasons of cost.
  • The national associations should advertise to the National Olympic Committees that table tennis should become an Olympic sport.

Results

The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:

Hungary was rated as the most successful nation and received a challenge cup, the Karl Andreka Prize .

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Hungary ( Victor Barna , László Bellák , Lajos Dávid , István Kelen , Miklós Szabados , Zoltán Mechlovits )
2. England ( Charles Bull , Adrian Haydon , Tommy Sears , Stanley Proffitt, David Jones)
3. Czechoslovakia ( Bedřich "Fritz" Nikodém , Antonín Maleček , Jindřich Lauterbach, Stanislav Kolář , Karel Svoboda)
Sweden (Gustaf Johnsson, Hille Nilsson , Valter Kolmodin , Allan Dammberg)
5. Germany ( Nikita Madjaroglou , Heinz Nickelsburg , Rudolf Schwager , Kurt Entholt , Misha Zabludowski )
6th Austria (Cheap, Manfred Feher , Paul Flußmann , Alfred Liebster )
Team women not applicable
Men's singles 1. Miklós Szabados - HUN
2. Victor Barna - HUN
3. Nikita Madjaroglou - GER
Ferenc Kovacs - HUN
Ladies singles 1. Mária Mednyánszky - HUN
2. Mona Müller-Rüster - GER
3. Anna Sipos - HUN
Magda Gál - HUN
Men's doubles 1. Victor Barna / Miklós Szabados - HUN
2. István Kelen / Lajos Dávid - HUN
3. Manfred Feher / Alfred Liebster - AUT
Karel Svoboda / Jindrich Lauterbach - TCH
Ladies doubles 1. Mária Mednyánszky / Anna Sipos - HUN
2. Magda Gál / Lili Tiszai-Tenner - HUN
3. Lili Forbath / Helly Reitzer - AUT
Mona Müller-Rüster - GER / Marie Šmídová -Masáková - TCH
Mixed 1. Miklós Szabados / Mária Mednyánszky - HUN
2. Victor Barna / Anna Sipos - HUN
3. Sándor Glancz / Magda Gál - HUN
László Bellák / Marta Komaromi - HUN

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary 6th 4th 5 15th
2 German EmpireGerman Empire German Empire 0 1 1.5 2.5
3 EnglandEngland England 0 1 0 1
4th Czechoslovakia 1920Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 2.5 2.5
5 AustriaAustria Austria 0 0 2 2
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 0 0 1 1
Total 6th 6th 12 24

literature

  • Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1931/5 pp. 127–130

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b magazine Tennis & Golf, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1931/4 p. 103
  2. ↑ http://www.ittf.com/museum/cups.html
  3. ↑ a b magazine Tennis & Golf, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1931/5 p. 128