Table tennis world championship 1953
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | March 20-29, 1953 | |||
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 Bucharest
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| Single (♂) |
 Ferenc Sidó
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| Single (♀) |
Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
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| Double (♂) |
József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó
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| Double (♀) |
Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Ferenc Sidó Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
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| Team (♂) |
 England
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| Team (♀) |
Romania
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The 20th World Table Tennis Championships took place from March 20th to 29th, 1953 in Bucharest (Romania).
overview
For the first time, China is taking part in a world championship, but without occupying a top place. The English men's team around Richard Bergmann and Johnny Leach becomes world champion ahead of the Hungarians around Ferenc Sidó , who won 3 titles in men's singles, men's doubles and mixed and became the most successful player in this world championship. (Sido later becomes the national coach of Hungary and wins the world championship title with the men's team in 1979.)
The all-German double Freundorfer / Schneider was eliminated against the Englishmen Brian Kennedy / Aubrey Simons .
Cutting off the Germans
The all-German teams consisted of the men from Conny Freundorfer (Munich), Horst Ilberg (Hagen), Matthäus Thurmaier (Munich), Heinz Schneider (Mühlhausen in Thuringia) and Helmut Hanschmann (Jena) as well as the women from Berti Capellmann (Würselen) ), Hannelore Imlau (Frankfurt am Main) and Liane Rödel (Leipzig).
The results are only partially available.
Team competition men
The team competition was played in two groups with eight teams each. Each team consisted of three players, a competition was held in the mode everyone against everyone.
Germany competed in group B. After victories over the Netherlands (5: 1), Bulgaria (5: 1) and Brazil (5: 2) as well as defeats against Hungary (1: 5), France (3: 5) and Romania (1: 5), the team won Fourth place. This resulted in a shared seventh place in the overall standings without further elimination fights.
Team competition women
The game was played in two groups with five teams each. A competition was held in the best-of-3 mode: a maximum of four singles and one doubles. Two to four players were allowed to play: two women in singles and other women in doubles.
Germany lost all games in Group A: 0: 3 against England and CSSR, 1: 3 against Hungary and China. The team was fifth and last and ninth in the overall standings without any further battles for positions.
Men's singles
- Heinz Schneider : Victory against Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen (Switzerland), defeat against Václav Tereba (CSSR)
- Conny Freundorfer : Victory against Dagoberto Midosi (Brazil), loss against József Kóczián (Hungary)
- Günter Matthias : defeat in round 2 against Guy Amouretti (France)
Ladies singles
- Liane Rödel : defeat against Luci Slavescu (Romania)
Men's doubles
- Freundorfer / Schneider : defeat against Brian Kennedy / Aubrey Simons (England)
- Günter Matthias (GDR) / Laurentiu Nagler (Romania): defeat against Richard Bergmann / Johnny Leach (England)
- Anton Breumair / Matthäus Thurmaier : defeat against Brian Kennedy / Aubrey Simons (England)
- Horst Ilberg / Bernie Vossebein : defeat against Žarko Dolinar / Vilim Harangozo (Yugoslavia)
Ladies doubles
- Berti Capellmann / Liliana Ciuleanu (Romania): loss to Audrey Bates / Betty Gray (Wales)
Mixed
- Horst Ilberg / Hannelore Imlau : defeat against Johnny Leach / Diane Rowe (England)
Results
The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:
- Gentlemen: Anton Breumair (Milbertshofen), Bernie Vossebein (Bochum), Günter Matthias (Stendal, GDR), Heinz Reimann (Jena)
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} Hungary
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3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
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3 | 1 | 0 | 4th |
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England
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1 | 3 | 3.5 | 7.5 |
| 4th |
 Czechoslovakia
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0 | 1 | 3 | 4th |
| 5 |
 Austria
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0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2 |
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 7th |
 France
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 14th | 28 | |
philately
- For the first time, stamps with table tennis motifs were issued on the occasion of a TT world championship . Romania issued 2 stamps worth 55 Bani with a circulation of two million sets. These are listed in the Michel catalog under the numbers 1423 and 1424. There was also a first day cover with a special cancellation and a special cancellation from Bucharest.
Web links
- Entry in ITTF database
- Table Tennis News - Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association , April 1953 (accessed March 14, 2015) Reports and all results of the English participants.