Table tennis world championship 1952
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date | February 1 - 10, 1952 | |||
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The 19th table tennis world championship took place from February 1st to 10th, 1952 in Bombay (India) - and thus for the second time outside of Europe after 1939. The venue was a football stadium in which a tent hall had been built.
General
- The award was made a year earlier by the International Table Tennis Federation ITTF on March 8, 1951 on the occasion of the title fights in Vienna .
- The temperature during the games was around 35 degrees Celsius. This heat bothered the Europeans in particular.
- Ferenc Sidó - later successful coach of the Hungarian national team, which was to win the world championship title in Pyongyang in 1979 - also led the Hungarians to win the title here as a player. The opponent in the final was the English men's team, which despite their two exceptional players Richard Bergmann and Johnny Leach had to be content with second place.
- For the first time Japanese players won titles at a table tennis world championship. Hiroji Satō , number five in the Japanese rankings, became world champion in men's singles, and the Japanese women's team beat the favored Romanians around record world champion Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu . In addition, the Japanese women's and men's doubles won gold.
The British TT Association had previously created a world ranking list in which no Japanese could be found in the top ranks. Johnny Leach led before Ivan Andreadis , Ferenc Sidó , Václav Tereba , József Kóczián , Vilim Harangozo , Bohumil Váňa and René Roothooft or angelica rozeanu before Gizella Farkas , Trude Pritzi , Linda Wertl , Helen Elliot , Rosalind Rowe , Sari Szasz-Kolosvary and Diane Rowe .
The Japanese game came as a shock to the Europeans, who were used to winning. Their way of playing contradicted all theories. An unusually thick rubber coating on the clubs muffled every sound; if the ball was hit, nothing was heard, but the nickname "dumb table tennis" was coined.
- For cost reasons, there was no women's team from Germany, but a men's team that took 9th place with the later DTTB President Dieter Mauritz . Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia also stayed away from the World Cup, which is why the group division of the teams drawn beforehand was changed. Austria competed with a women's team.
Cutting off the Germans
The all-German squad consisted of Kurt Braun (Düsseldorf), Dieter Mauritz (Munich), Heinz Raack (Berlin), Walter Than (Munich), and Heinz Schneider (Mühlhausen in Thuringia).
Team competition men
Before that, on December 8th and 9th, 1951, an elimination tournament for six World Cup places took place in Wiesbaden.
The teams were drawn into three groups with 7 or 8 participants. Germany competed in group B.
Against India, which was trained by Barna and Ehrlich before the World Cup , the team fought to equalize after trailing 1: 4, but lost the last game and thus the match with 4: 5. This was followed by a 5-0 defeat against England and a 5-0 win against Cambodia. In the game against Japan the team had no chance with 0: 5, as well as in the 1: 5 against France. They won 5-2 against Pakistan and Portugal.
Men's singles
Only Heinz Raack managed to win. After a bye, he beat Lim Tam Var (Cambodia) in the second round. Then he lost 3-0 to Fu Chi-Fong (Hong Kong). Also by bye, Heinz Schneider and Rudi Piffl reached round 2, where they lost to Dagoberto Midosi (Brazil) and Kálmán Szepesi (Hungary) respectively . Kurt Braun (against Mai Van Hoa , Vietnam), Walter Than (against Suh Sui Cho , Hong Kong) and Dieter Mauritz (against Ehrlich , France) were eliminated in the first round .
Men's doubles
The Schneider / Piffl doubles made it to the quarter-finals, where they lost to the later runner-up world champions Bergmann / Leach . Previously, Joao F. Antas / Mohd Yasin (Portugal / Afghanistan), Mai Van Hoa / Tran Van Lieu (Vietnam) and Karl-Heinz Eckardt / Gonzalez (Germany / Chile) were thrown out of the race.
Raack / Than lost to Wong Tong Goon / Loh Kum Soon (Singapore). Mauritz / Braun were eliminated in the second round against József Kóczián / Ferenc Sidó .
Mixed
Schneider / Mary Stafford (Australia) were defeated by József Kóczián / Gizella Farkas (Hungary) and Braun / Gertrude Wutzl (Austria) of the Hungarian-Romanian pairing Ferenc Sidó / Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu .
ITTF Congress
- The DTTB President Karl-Heinz Eckardt is elected to the ITTF Board.
Results
Rudi Piffl only took part in the individual competitions.
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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4th | 0 | 1 | 5 |
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1.5 | 2 | 2 | 5.5 |
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1.5 | 1 | 0 | 2.5 |
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0 | 4th | 4th | 8th |
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0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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0 | 0 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
8th |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
8th |
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0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Total | 7th | 7th | 13 | 27 |
literature
- DTS magazine , 1952, West-Süd issue
- Booklet 2, p. 2: Settlement and draw
- Issue 5, pp. 1–3 + 11–12 and Issue 7, p. 12: Report
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/7 issue Süd-West p. 16
- ^ "The Austrians retired"; Subtitle: «The next championship in India» (last contribution of the general report) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ "Pritzi and Wertl in the world rankings", column 1, below . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 10, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «The New Japanese Tennis Style»; Column 4, middle . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 9, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ «The Japanese won three titles»; Column 2, below . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1952, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband eV - Chronicle 1927–2002, 2002, publisher: Berliner Tischtennisverband eV, Berlin, page 20
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1952/22 Edition West South p.14
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1952/6 issue West-Süd p. 4