Table tennis world championship 1948

Table tennis world championship
1947 ← WM 1948 → 1949
date	4th - 11th February 1948
venue	London
winner
Single (♂)	Richard Bergmann
Single (♀)	Gizella Farkas
Double (♂)	Ladislav Štípek Bohumil Váňa
Double (♀)	Margaret Frank's Vera Thomas
Doubles (mixed)	Dick Miles Thelma Thall
Team (♂)	Czechoslovakia
Team (♀)	England

The 15th table tennis world championship took place from February 4th to 11th 1948 in London / Wembley (England). The venue was the Empire Pool (today's Wembley Arena ) in Wembley.

As in Paris in 1947, Germany was not represented. Switzerland was also absent for financial reasons.

In the women's category , Gizella Farkas won the title due to a wrong decision by the referee. In the semifinals against Angelica Rozeanu , the time game started in the fifth set when the score was 22:22 . According to the rule, the next point should now decide if it was achieved within 5 minutes. Rozeanu took the next point and should have won the game. However, the referee allowed Jimmy Rose to continue playing up to a two-point lead in ignorance of the rule. Farkas finally won that set 29:27. Because of this irregularity, the tournament management had the game repeated the next day. This time Farkas won regularly 3-0 and made it into the final.

useful information

• The trophy for the women's doubles was donated by William J. Pope (England, later Honorary General Secretary)
• The trophy for the mixed competition was donated by Zdeněk Heydušek (managing director of the CSSR table tennis association).
• Egypt entered with three brothers named Abou Haif and the wife of one of the brothers.

Results

competition	rank	winner
Team men	1.	CSR ( Ladislav Štípek , Ivan Andreadis , Max Marinko , František Tokár , Bohumil Váňa )
	2.	France (Maurice Bordrez, Charles Dubouillé , Guy Amouretti , Eugène Manchiska, Michel Haguenauer )
	3.	Austria ( Rudolf Diwald , Herbert Wunsch , Otto Eckl , Heribert Just , Heinrich Bednar )
	3.	USA ( Marty Reisman , Garrett Nash, William Price, Dick Miles )
Team women	1.	England ( Dóra Beregi , Margaret Franks , Elizabeth Steventon, Vera Thomas )
	2.	Hungary / France ( Gizella Farkas , Rozsi Karpati, Loretta György-FRA)
	3.	CSR (Marie Zelenkova, Vlasta Depetrisová , Eliška Krejčová , Marie Kettnerová )
	3.	Romania ( Sari Szasz-Kolosvary , Angelica Rozeanu )
	11.	Austria (Ingrid Poetschek, Gertrude Pritzi , Gertrude Wutzl)
Men's singles	1.	Richard Bergmann - ENG
	2.	Bohumil Váňa - TCH
	3.	Guy Amouretti - FRA
	3.	Ivan Andreadis - TCH
Ladies singles	1.	Gizella Farkas - HUN
	2.	Vera Thomas - ENG
	3.	Angelica Rozeanu - ROM
	3.	Vlasta Depetrisová - TCH
Men's doubles	1.	Ladislav Štípek / Bohumil Váňa - TCH
	2.	Adrian Haydon - ENG / Ferenc Soós - HUN
	3.	Herbert Wunsch / Heinrich Bednar - AUT
	3.	Victor Barna - HUN / Richard Bergmann - ENG
Ladies doubles	1.	Margaret Franks / Vera Thomas - ENG
	2.	Dóra Beregi - ENG / Helen Elliot - SCO
	3.	Audrey Fowler / Irene Lentle - ENG
	3.	Leah Neuberger-Thall / Thelma Thall - USA
Mixed	1.	Dick Miles / Thelma Thall - USA
	2.	Bohumil Váňa / Vlasta Depetrisová - TCH
	3.	Ferenc Sidó / Dóra Beregi - HUN / Eng
	3.	Richard Bergmann - ENG / Angelica Rozeanu - ROM

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	England	3	2	2.5	7.5
2	Czechoslovakia	2	2	3	7th
3	Hungary	1	1	1	3
4th	United States	1	0	2	3
5	France	0	1.5	1	2.5
6th	Scotland	0	0.5	0	0.5
7th	Romania	0	0	2.5	2.5
8th	Austria	0	0	2	2
Total		7th	7th	14th	28

literature

• Report: DTS magazine , 1948/4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1948/2 page 1
2. ↑ Detailed analysis of the time game in Table Tennis, April 1948, page 18 (English): Was Farkas a lucky champion? (Official statement on the disputed semi-final) (accessed April 10, 2016)
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2020/7 page 45
4. ↑ ^{a b} Cups (accessed April 10, 2016)
5. ↑ Table Tennis, April 1948, page 15 (accessed April 10, 2016)

Web links

• Entry in ITTF database
• The Table Tennis Collector No. 56 page 8 (accessed October 4, 2010; PDF; 3.1 MB)