Table tennis world championship 1951

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Table tennis Table tennis world championship
1950 HungaryHungary ← World Cup 1951 → 1952 IndiaIndia
date 3rd - 11th March 1951
venue AustriaAustria Vienna
winner
Single (♂) EnglandEngland Johnny Leach
Single (♀) RomaniaRomania Angelica Rozeanu
Double (♂) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ivan Andreadis Bohumil Váňa
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
Double (♀) EnglandEngland Diane Rowe Rosalind Rowe
EnglandEngland
Doubles (mixed) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Bohumil Váňa Angelica Rozeanu
RomaniaRomania
Team (♂) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Team (♀) RomaniaRomania Romania

The 18th table tennis world championship took place from March 3 to 11, 1951 in the Konzerthaus in Vienna (Austria).

General

Germany took part again for the first time after the Second World War. To make this possible, several conditions had to be met:

  • All-German membership: In 1950, the FRG and the GDR separately applied to the ITTF for membership. However, the ITTF insisted that Germany should appear as the only member. Thereupon the FRG and the GDR applied for joint membership in 1951. This was approved against the will of ITTF President Ivor Montagu , who only wanted to grant Germany a “goodstanding membership”. Gunnar Ollen (Sweden) and Kurt Kunodi (Austria) were particularly committed to Germany.
  • Recovery of the Corbillon Cup : At the 1939 World Cup , the German women's team had won the Corbillon Cup. This trophy was lost in the course of the war or in the post-war years. The DTTB now had to pay 120,000 French francs to the ITTF in order to obtain a new trophy.

The Saarland becomes a "goodstanding member" in the ITTF.

The all-German teams consisted of Willi Mallon (Kassel), Dieter Mauritz (Munich), Kurt Seifert (Wiesbaden), Walter Than (Munich) and Heinz Schneider (Mühlhausen in Thuringia) for the men and Hilde Bussmann (Frankfurt am Main), Berti Capellmann (Würselen), Hertha Maier (Munich) and Astrid Horn (Quedlinburg, GDR) among the women.

The East Germans Heinz Schneider / Astrid Horn reached the quarter-finals in mixed, but lost to the later world champions Vana / Rozeanu . Richard Bergmann could not defend his title because the English table tennis association ETTA banned him because of unauthorized competitions in South Africa.

useful information

  • The opening took place on March 3, 1951 at 6 p.m. After welcoming words by the President of the Austrian Association, Dr. Kurt Kunodi, the Mayor of Vienna Theodor Körner spoke the words: "In the name of friendship between peoples, I declare the world championships open"; then the teams marched into the hall.
  • In the English women's team, Diane Rowe (later wife of Eberhard Schöler) and Rosalind Rowe played twins. They also won the world championship in doubles.
  • The Austrian Waldemar Fritsch won all games in the team competition with the help of his sponge covering.
  • The Hungarian Zoltán Mechlovits was made an honorary member of the ITTF at the ITTF Congress that took place during the World Cup .
  • The Yugoslav Tibor Harangozo was the coach of the Austrian national team.
  • For the table tennis world championship, the post in Vienna used a special postmark from March 3 to 11, 1951.
  • The exciting men's team final was held on March 7th.
  • Bohumil Váňa (ČSR) was the first to retire on the first day of the individual encounters on March 8th.
  • The women's singles and all doubles began on March 9th.
  • The men's semi-finals on March 10th brought surprises, as both Václav Tereba, who lost to Johnny Leach, and Ferenc Sidó were the tournament favorites.

Results

The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:

competition rank winner
Team men 1. CSR ( František Tokár , Ivan Andreadis , Bohumil Váňa , Václav Tereba , Ladislav Štípek )
2. Hungary ( József Kóczián , Kálmán Szepesi , Jozsef Farkas , Ferenc Sidó )
3. Yugoslavia ( Žarko Dolinar , Josip Vogrinc , Zdenko Uzorinac , Josip Gabric, Vilim Harangozo )
10. Germany ( Willi Mallon , Dieter Mauritz , Heinz Schneider , Kurt Seifert , Walter Than )
13. Switzerland (André Estoppey, Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen , Michel Roux, Hugo Urchetti , Georges Wassmer )
13. Austria ( Otto Eckl , Waldemar Fritsch , Heribert Just , Kurt Russak, Ferdinand Schuech )
Team women 1. Romania (Paraschiva Patulea, Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu , Sari Szasz-Kolosvary )
2. Austria ( Ermelinde Wertl , Trude Pritzi , Gertrude Wutzl)
3. Scotland / Wales ( Helen Elliot , Elisabeth Pithie, Audrey Bates-WAL, Betty Gray -WAL)
3. England ( Diane Rowe , Rosalind Rowe , Joyce Roberts , Margaret Franks )
9. Germany ( Hilde Bussmann , Berti Capellmann , Astrid Horn , Hertha Maier )
15th Switzerland (Jeannette Grandjean, Isabel Vez)
Men's singles 1. Johnny Leach - ENG
2. Ivan Andreadis - TCH
3. Ferenc Sidó - HUN
3. Václav Tereba - TCH
Ladies singles 1. Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu - ROM
2. Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas - HUN
3. Leah Neuberger-Thall - USA
3. Trude Pritzi - AUT
Men's doubles 1. Ivan Andreadis / Bohumil Váňa - TCH
2. Ferenc Sidó / József Kóczián - HUN
3. Jack Carrington / Johnny Leach - ENG
3. František Tokár / Ladislav Štípek - TCH
Ladies doubles 1. Diane Rowe / Rosalind Rowe - ENG
2. Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu / Sari Szasz-Kolosvary - ROM
3. Pauline Ickhoff / Leah Neuberger-Thall - USA
3. Rozsi Karpati / Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas - HUN
Mixed 1. Bohumil Váňa - TCH / Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu - ROM
2. Vilim Harangozo - YUG / Ermelinde Wertl - AUT
3. Johnny Leach / Diane Rowe - ENG
3. József Kóczián / Rozsi Karpati - HUN

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 2.5 1 2 5.5
2 Romania 1948Romania Romania 2.5 1 0 3.5
3 EnglandEngland England 2 0 3 5
4th Hungary 1949Hungary Hungary 0 3 3 6th
5 AustriaAustria Austria 0 1.5 1 2.5
6th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 0.5 1 1.5
7th United States 48United States United States 0 0 2 2
8th Wales 1807Wales Wales 0 0 0.5 0.5
8th ScotlandScotland Scotland 0 0 0.5 0.5
Total 7th 7th 13 27

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Austria's women in the final" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 7, 1951, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1964/8 West issue, page 8
  3. ^ German Table Tennis Association - 50 years young . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , 1975, page 47
  4. ↑ 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life , ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 104
  5. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1951/19 issue west-south page 3
  6. ↑ "Today the World Championships begin" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 3, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ "Austria's men beat Holland 5: 2" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 4, 1951, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ «Czechoslovakia winner among men» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 8, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ^ "The Austrians left" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ^ "Pritzi among the last four" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 10, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ^ «Pritzi eliminated against Rozeanu» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 11, 1951, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).