Table tennis world championship 1950

Table tennis world championship
1949 ← World Cup 1950 → 1951
date	29.1. - 5.2.1950
venue	Budapest
winner
Single (♂)	Richard Bergmann
Single (♀)	Angelica Rozeanu
Double (♂)	Ferenc Sidó Ferenc Soós
Double (♀)	Thóra Beregi Helen Elliot
Doubles (mixed)	Ferenc Sidó Gizella Farkas
Team (♂)	Czech Republic
Team (♀)	Romania

The 17th table tennis world championship took place from January 29 to February 5, 1950 in Budapest (Hungary) in the Volksstadion ( Hungarian Népstadion ).

Germany did not participate, but both the FRG and the GDR applied for membership at the ITTF Congress. The world association ITTF refused separate admission and insisted on a uniform appearance for Germany.

Worth mentioning

• In the sports hall, banners were attached to all the walls, conveying the fact that this event is about world peace. Even so, the Yugoslav representative Velkovic, who was supposed to represent his country at the ITTF Congress, was asked to leave the country with his wife and children within 24 hours.
• The men's team games ended on February 1, and the individual games began on February 2. All Austrian players, except Trude Pritzi, were beaten - and Pritzi was lucky because her opponent Zelenkova did not play.
• Elimination of the Austrians: Pritzi lost to Rozeanu 2: 3; In the doubles Bergmann-Barna won 3: 1 over Bednar-Just and Sidó-Soós over Schuech-Jejenti (AUT-IND) 3: 0 and in the mixed doubles Bergmann-Thomann over Bednar-Pritzi 3: 2.
• Rozeanu became world champion with 22:20, 21:15, 21:18 without losing a set; Bergmann's victory was 12:21, 15:18 (timeout), 21:14, 21:14, 21:13 - he delivered a tactically excellent game that lasted 2 hours. Sidó-Farkas won with 21:17, 21:18, 21:12, Sidó-Soós with 15:21, 21:16, 21:13, 21:18 and finally Beregi-Elliot with 13:21, 21:11, 21:19, 21:17.
• The ITTF Congress decided to award the 1951 World Championships to Vienna (with the additional remark that this is done on the condition that Austria accepts this contract).

Results

competition	rank	winner
Team men	1.	CSR ( Ivan Andreadis , Max Marinko , Václav Tereba , František Tokár , Bohumil Váňa )
	2.	Hungary (József Farkas, József Kóczián , Ferenc Sidó , László Várkonyi, Ferenc Soós )
	3.	England ( Richard Bergmann , Bernard Crouch, Johnny Leach , Aubrey Simons , Harry Venner)
	3.	France ( René Roothooft , Michel Lanskoy, Michel Haguenauer , Alexandre Agopoff )
	5.	Switzerland ( Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen , Lucien Portal, Michel Roux, Hugo Urchetti , Georges Wassmer )
	7th	Austria ( Heinrich Bednar , Hans Hartinger , Heribert Just , Kurt Russak, Ferdinand Schuech )
Team women	1.	Romania ( Angelica Rozeanu , Luci Slavescu, Sari Szasz-Kolosvary )
	2.	Hungary ( Ilona Király , Gizella Farkas , Ilona Kerekes-Solyom , Rózsi Kárpáti)
	3.	England ( Margaret Franks , Vera Thomas , Dóra Beregi )
	3.	CSR ( Květa Hrušková , Ida Kotatkova, Eliška Krejčová , Marie Kettnerová )
	7th	Austria ( Gertrude Pritzi , Ermelinde Wertl , Gertrude Wutzl)
Men's singles	1.	Richard Bergmann - ENG
	2.	Ferenc Soós - HUN
	3.	Ferenc Sidó - HUN
	3.	Ivan Andreadis - TCH
Ladies singles	1.	Angelica Rozeanu - ROM
	2.	Gizella Farkas - HUN
	3.	Sari Szasz-Kolosvary - ROM
	3.	Rózsi Kárpáti - HUN
Men's doubles	1.	Ferenc Sidó / Ferenc Soós - HUN
	2.	František Tokár / Ivan Andreadis - TCH
	3.	Bohumil Váňa / Ladislav Štípek - TCH
	3.	Josef Turnovsky / Václav Tereba - TCH
Ladies doubles	1.	Dóra Beregi - ENG / Helen Elliot - SCO
	2.	Gizella Farkas - HUN / Angelica Rozeanu - ROM
	3.	Margaret Franks / Vera Thomas - ENG
	3.	Květa Hrušková / Eliška Krejčová - TCH
Mixed	1.	Ferenc Sidó / Gizella Farkas - HUN
	2.	Bohumil Váňa / Květa Hrušková - TCH
	3.	Ladislav Štípek / Eliška Krejčová - TCH
	3.	Ivan Andreadis / Angelica Rozeanu - ROM

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Hungary	2	4.5	2	8.5
2	Romania	2	0.5	2	4.5
3	England	2	0	3	5
4th	Czechoslovakia	1	2	6th	9
5	France	0	0	1	1
Total		7th	7th	14th	28

philately

The Hungarian Post used a special postmark and a machine advertising postmark in Budapest.

Web links

• Entry in ITTF database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Column 4: "Table tennis and world peace" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 3, 1950, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Column 1, Article No. 5: "All Austrians retired" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 5, 1950, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Column 2/3 below: "Table tennis championship 1951 in Vienna" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 7, 1950, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).