Table tennis world championship 1954
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | April 5-14, 1954 | |||
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 London
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| Single (♂) |
 Ichiro Ogimura
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| Single (♀) |
 Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
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| Double (♂) |
.svg){kind=small} Žarko Dolinar Vilim Harangozo
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| Double (♀) |
Diane Rowe Rosalind Rowe
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| Doubles (mixed) |
 Ivan Andreadis Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas
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| Team (♂) |
Japan
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| Team (♀) |
Japan
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The 21st table tennis world championship took place from April 5th to 14th, 1954 in London / Wembley (England).
Overview
The era of the Asians begins: Japan wins the men's and women's team competition. Up to the present day these competitions - with few exceptions - are usually won by Japanese or Chinese teams.
Germany is back at the start. The men's team around Conny Freundorfer took 10th place. A member of this team is also Peter von Pierer - who later became the DTTB sports manager for many years. As in other sports, the Saarland competes with its own team.
The Japanese and later ITTF President Ichiro Ogimura wins the men's singles title against Tage Flisberg from Sweden. England table tennis legend Richard Bergmann took 3rd place together with the Czech Ivan Andreadis . The Yugoslavs Žarko Dolinar / Vilim Harangozo (later head coach of the German men's national team) win the men's doubles title.
Cutting off the Germans (excerpt)
The all-German teams consisted of the men from Conny Freundorfer (Munich), Peter von Pierer (Bavaria), Hans Rockmeier (Munich), Heinz Schneider (Mühlhausen in Thuringia) and Helmut Hanschmann (Jena) as well as the women from Martha Behrens ( Harsum), Hannelore Imlau (Frankfurt am Main) and Ulla Paulsen (Hamburg).
Team competition men
Germany only reached 10th place and was therefore downgraded from performance category I to category II by the world association ITTF.
Conny Freundorfer defeated Adolf Šlár (CSSR), Žarko Dolinar (Yugoslavia), Brian Kennedy (England), Matei Gantner (Romania) and Bryan Merrett (England) and lost to Tage Flisberg (Sweden) and Georges Roland (Belgium).
Peter von Pierer won against Hugo Urchetti (Switzerland).
Men's singles
Conny Freundorfer won against Aleksandar Grujic (Yugoslavia) and lost to Laszlo Földy (Hungary).
Helmut Hanschmann defeated the Englishman Robert Griffin, but then lost in the time game to Richard Bergmann, who played for England .
Hans Rockmeier eliminated Lennart Johansson (Sweden), but then had no chance against the still reigning world champion Ferenc Sidó (Hungary).
Peter von Pierer was eliminated against the Englishman Brian Kennedy.
Heinz Schneider prevailed over Waldemar Duarte Pinto (Brazil) and Miklos Sebok (Hungary), but then lost to Englishman Peter Shead.
Willi Trautmann from Saarland defeated Owen Jaine (New Zealand) after a bye and then lost to Austrian Heribert Just .
Ladies singles
Martha Behrens defeated Elsie Carrington (England) in the qualifying round and lost to Claude Rougagnou from France .
Anneliese Ratius was eliminated immediately against Josee Wouters (Belgium).
Ursula Paulsen prevailed against Doris Lindblad (Finland) and was then defeated by Rosalind Rowe (England).
Hannelore Imlau lost to Kathleen Best (England).
Ladies doubles
Imlau / Paulsen was the only women's doubles to win, namely over the Danes Gudrun Kahns / F.Brobech. Then they were subject to the English women Joyce Seaman / Jean Winn. Herresthal / Naumann lost immediately to Josee Wouters / Mary Detournay (Belgium). The bye headed Graf / Ratius without a fight in the second round, where she attended Margaret Franks / Joyce Roberts failed (England). Also Behrens / Bep Oosterwijk (Germany / Netherlands) came without a fight on, then meant Shirley Jones / Vera Rowe (Wales) terminus.
Mixed
Rockmeier / Paulsen won against the French Jean-Claude Sala / Claude Rougagnou .
Trautmann / Ratius (Saarland) advanced one round by bye , then retired against Josip Vogrinc / Dinka Nikolic (Yugoslavia).
useful information
- Again - after 1951 - the English twins Diane Rowe / Rosalind Rowe won the women's doubles competition.
- 12,000 spectators saw the final in the men's doubles.
- Žarko Dolinar was the only world champion with a scientific doctorate. He was a physicist.
- The Indian player Miss Sultana competed in a sari .
- At the ITTF Congress, which was taking place at the same time, some members submitted a motion to ban clubs with foam rubber coverings. Such rackets have been used successfully by Japanese players. This motion did not achieve the required 2/3 majority due to two missing votes (France voted against the motion), the clubs were still allowed.
- The Post used a special postmark in Wembley from April 5-14, 1954.
Results
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
Japan
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3 | 2 | 3 | 8th |
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England
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1 | 1.5 | 4th | 6.5 |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
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1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 3 |
Yugoslavia
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1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 5 |
 Czechoslovakia
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0.5 | 1 | 2 | 3.5 |
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} Hungary
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0.5 | 1 | 1.5 | 3 |
| 7th |
 Sweden
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8th |
 France
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0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 9 |
 Austria
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0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th | |
swell
- DTS magazine , 1954/9 pages 4 + 19
- ITTF museum