Table tennis world championship 1959

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Table tennis Table tennis world championship
1957 SwedenSweden ← World Cup 1959 → 1961 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
date 27.3. - 5.4.1959
venue GermanyGermany Dortmund
winner
Single (♂) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Jung Kuo-Tuan
Single (♀) JapanJapan Kimiyo Matsuzaki
Double (♂) JapanJapan Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura
JapanJapan
Double (♀) JapanJapan Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi
JapanJapan
Doubles (mixed) JapanJapan Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi
JapanJapan
Team (♂) JapanJapan Japan
Team (♀) JapanJapan Japan

The 25th table tennis world championship took place from March 27th to April 5th, 1959 in Dortmund (Germany). It was the first World Cup in Germany after the Second World War , and the second World Cup in Germany after 1930 .

Overview

The venue was the Westfalenhalle , where 16 tables were played on a newly laid floor covering. Around 40,000 spectators followed the games, in which 39 men's and 27 women's teams from 40 nations competed; a total of 372 players (264 men, 109 women) started. For the first time, the GDR also took part with its own teams. The DTTB could not come to an agreement with German television in advance; therefore, the World Cup was not broadcast on television.

Of the seven gold medals, Japan won six. Only the title in the men's singles went to China for the first time. It was the first World Cup in which Japan did not win the individual title when it was represented. Europe did not win any competition. The women's and men's team titles went to Japan. Chinese Jung Kuo-Tuan was the individual world champion, and Kimiyo Matsuzaki won the all-Japanese final among women . In women's doubles and mixed, only Japanese athletes were in the final. Of the Europeans, Hungary was the most successful. Ferenc Sidó won silver in the men's team and in the men's singles . Czechoslovakia reached the final in men's doubles.

As the organizer, Germany was able to offer many active participants for the individual competitions. The national associations made the nomination.

Game system of team competitions

The men's teams were drawn into four groups. Each team consisted of three players. A team fight was carried out according to the Swaythling Cup system .

The group winners made it to the semi-finals. Here Hungary won 5-3 against China and Japan 5-3 against Vietnam. In the final, Japan beat Hungary 5-1.

The women's teams were drawn into three groups. Each team consisted of two players. A team fight was carried out according to the Corbillon Cup system .

The three group winners Japan, China and Korea played in the everyone against everyone system for the medal ranks. Japan beat China 3-0 and Korea 3-2 to secure gold. Korea won silver with a 3-0 win against China.

Cutting off the Germans

National team of the GDR
men from right to left: Günter Matthias , Heinz Schneider (hidden), Helmut Hanschmann , Hans Täger and possibly the coach.
Ladies from left to right: Christa Bannach , Doris Kalweit , Ute Mittelstädt , Sigrun Kunz , Isolde Woschee .

Men's team Germany

In the group matches of group B, Germany won against Egypt, Portugal and Belgium (each 5: 1) and against Australia, Ireland and Jamaica (each 5: 0). Conny Freundorfer won against China over the later individual world champion Jung Kuo-Tuan and Dieter Köhler over Wang Chuan-Yao, but overall the fight was lost 2: 5. The team also lost 5-1 against Sweden, the only victory being achieved by Dieter Köhler over Bjorne Mellström. The team had thus missed the final round, in which only the group first China made it.

GDR men's team

The GDR reached fifth place in Group C. They lost to the first four teams Japan (0: 5), Yugoslavia (1: 5), India (1: 5) and Austria (4: 5) and recorded victories over the Netherlands (5: 4), Denmark (5: 1), Italy (5: 4), Canada (5: 0) and Luxembourg (5: 1). Most of the games were won by Heinz Schneider .

Women's team Germany

The women could not qualify for the finals either. The victories in Group C against New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Canada (3: 0 each) and Belgium (3: 1) were matched by defeats against Japan, Hungary (0: 3 each) and France (2: 3). Germany thus achieved fourth place.

Women's team GDR

The GDR women also came fourth in Group A. They lost 3-0 against the teams from China, England and Sweden placed in front of them. There was also a 1: 3 defeat against Switzerland. Four victories ensured an even point ratio: Denmark (3: 2), Netherlands (3: 0), Spain (3: 1) and the USA (3: 0).

Men's singles Germany and GDR

After the fourth round - the round of the last 32 - all German men were eliminated. Got the furthest

Losses in Round 1

In addition, Anton Breumair , Dieter Czichowski , Ernst Gomolla , Dieter Knappe , Josef Seiz , Otmar Stock and Klemens Tietmeyer were eliminated in the first round. Horst Funk had already failed in the qualifying round.

Round 2 losses
Round 3 losses
  • Hans-Jürgen Fromm : First round without a fight, victory over Laurie Landry (England), defeat against Yang Jui-Hua (China)
  • Hans Wilhelm Gäb : Victory against Luciano Trevisiol (Italy), Edmond Beytkhoda (Persia), defeat against Tony Larsson (Sweden)
  • Herbert Gomolla : Victory against Hans Täger (GDR), George Jackson (USA), defeat against Ludvík Vyhnanovský (ČSR)
  • Alfred Großmann : Victory over Roger Desormeux (Canada), Harry O'Prey (Ireland), defeat against Heinz Reimann
  • Heinz Harst : Victory against André Demeure (Belgium), George Murany (England), defeat against Chuang Chia-Fu (China)
  • Rolf Rätsch : Victory in the qualification over Wim Augustinus (Netherlands), Herbert Köhncke (Germany), then victory over Shonie Aki (USA), Claude Duvernay (Switzerland), defeat against Li Jen-Su (China)

Ladies singles Germany and GDR

The furthest came Sigrun Kunz (GDR), who only lost to Gizella Lantos (Hungary) in the round of 16 . Jutta Kruse against Sárolta Máthé (Hungary), Rosemarie Gomolla against Kathleen Best (England) and Ursel Matthias-Fiedler against Taeko Namba (Japan) had already been eliminated.

Losses in Round 1
Round 2 losses
Round 3 losses
Round 4 losses

Men's doubles Germany and GDR

Heinz Harst / Dieter Köhler made it to the round of 16 , where they lost to Ferenc Sidó (Hungary) / Jung Kuo-Tuan (China).

Losses in Round 1

Freundorfer / Seiz were eliminated without a fight due to an injury to Seiz.

Round 2 losses
Round 3 losses
Round 4 losses

Ladies doubles Germany and GDR

By byes reached Oda Mielenhausen / Rosemarie Gomolla the knockout stages, but here were strong Libuse Grafkova / Eva Kroupkova (CSR) to.

Losses in Round 1
Round 2 losses
Round 3 defeat
  • Mielenhausen / Gomolla : twice without a fight, defeat against Libuse Grafkova / Eva Kroupkova (ČSR)

Mixed

Three pairs made it to the last 32. Here Dieter Köhler / Hannelore Schlaf lost to Ichiro Ogimura / Fujie Eguchi (Japan) and Lothar Pleuse / Ute Mittelstädt against Nobuya Hoshino / Taeko Namba (Japan). Michael Wilcox / Trapp (Australia / Germany) also reached the round of 32.

politics

  • South Africa was not represented. The government of South Africa refused permission to leave the country because colored people were to be used in the team.
  • The GDR was officially referred to as "GDR" (with dots) at the opening event.

useful information

  • The English ITTF President Ivor Montagu will give the opening speech in German.
  • Agnes Simon starts this time - after emigrating from Hungary - for the Netherlands. However, she is not used in the team, she only takes part in individual competitions.
  • Jung Kuo-Tuan is the first athlete from China to win a world championship.
  • The Persian player Husseyn Amir Ehteshamzadeh has been disqualified by the Persian TT Association for illegal bets.
  • At the age of 13, the Brazilian R.Biriba Da Costa (correct: Ubiraci Rodrignes Da Costa) is the youngest participant.
  • The Korean Kyung Cha Cho landed the highest victory against Louise Parent (Canada) with 21: 2, 21: 1, 21: 2.
  • The referees have to pay their travel expenses to Dortmund out of their own pocket.
  • The German referees included a. Eugen Bach from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Gerhard Wernicke from Berlin, Erich Bachmann († 2016) from Braunschweig, Egon Geese, Torsten Scharf and Karl Mikosch († 2016).
  • Former Japanese triple jump Olympic champion Naoto Tajima , who lives in Essen, looks after the Japanese table tennis players as interpreter.
  • In the run-up, 20,000 posters had to be reprinted because of a false Chinese flag.
  • In August 1959, the People's Republic of China issues two postage stamps with table tennis motifs (Michel catalog no. 451 and 452) and a first day cover with a special cancellation. The Deutsche Bundespost is offering a commemorative envelope with a special Dortmund postmark.
  • 8,000 table tennis balls are used.

ITTF Congress

The ITTF Congress determines which club coverings may be used, namely pimple rubber, sponge inside and sponge outside. This will put an end to a long-standing dispute on this topic for the time being. Since the DTTB in Germany will not allow these club coverings until later - in the 1959/60 season - the German participants use pimple rubber coverings.

Results

There are contradicting information about which Germans only took part in the individual competitions:

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Japan ( Ichiro Ogimura , Seiji Narita, Nobuya Hoshino , Teruo Murakami )
2. Hungary ( László Földy , Ferenc Sidó , László Pigniczki , Zoltán Bubonyi , Zoltán Berczik )
3. China ( Chiang Yung-Ning , Xu Yinsheng , Wang Chuan-Yao, Jung Kuo-Tuan , Yang Jui-Hua)
3. Vietnam ( Mai Van Hoa , Le Van Tiet , Tran Canh Duoc, Tran Van Lieu)
9. Germany ( Erich Arndt , Conny Freundorfer , Hans Wilhelm Gäb , Ernst Gomolla , Dieter Köhler )
17th GDR ( Helmut Hanschmann , Lothar Pleuse , Heinz Reimann , Heinz Schneider , Hans Täger )
13. Austria ( Viktor Hirsch , Anton Hold, Wolfgang Stoiber, Karl Wegrath , Hans Zankl )
21st Switzerland (Lajos Antal, Paul Birchmeier, Claude Duvernay, Mario Mariotti , Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen )
Team women 1. Japan ( Fujie Eguchi , Kimiyo Matsuzaki , Taeko Namba , Kazuko Yamaizumi )
2. Korea (Yool Ja Hwang, Kyong Ja Choi, Chong Hi Lee, Kyong Cha Cho)
3. China ( Sun Mei-Ying , Qiu Zhonghui , Hu Ke-Ming)
10. Germany ( Jutta Kruse , Ursel Matthias-Fiedler , Oda Mielenhausen , Hannelore Schlaf )
10. GDR ( Christa Bannach , Sigrun Kunz , Ute Mittelstädt , Isolde Woschee )
19th Austria (Brigitte Hausleitner, Hildegard Hintner , Margit Wanek )
22nd Switzerland ( Franziska Hassler , Monique Jaquet , Vera Kaszdorf)
Men's singles 1. Jung Kuo-Tuan - CHN
2. Ferenc Sidó - HUN
3. Ichiro Ogimura - JPN
3. Dick Miles - United States
Ladies singles 1. Kimiyo Matsuzaki - JPN
2. Fujie Eguchi - JPN
3. Éva Kóczián - HUN
3. Qiu Zhonghui - CHN
Men's doubles 1. Teruo Murakami / Ichiro Ogimura - JPN
2. Ludvík Vyhnanovský / Ladislav Štípek - TCH
3. Hans Alser / Ake Rakell - SWE
3. László Földy / Zoltán Berczik - HUN
Ladies doubles 1. Taeko Namba / Kazuko Yamaizumi - JPN
2. Fujie Eguchi / Kimiyo Matsuzaki - JPN
3. Sun Mei-ying / Qiu Zhonghui - CHN
3. Ann Haydon / Diane Rowe - ENG
Mixed 1. Ichiro Ogimura / Fujie Eguchi - JPN
2. Teruo Murakami / Kimiyo Matsuzaki - JPN
3. Zoltán Berczik / Gizella Lantos - HUN
3. Wang Chuan-Yao / Sun Mei-Ying - CHN

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 JapanJapan Japan 6th 3 1 10
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1 0 5 6th
3 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 0 2 3 5
4th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 1 0 1
5 EnglandEngland England 0 0 1 1
5 United States 49United States United States 0 0 1 1
5 Vietnam SudSouth Vietnam South Vietnam 0 0 1 1
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 0 0 1 1
Total 7th 7th 13 27

literature

  • Preview, grouping, list of participants - DTS magazine , West issue 1959/5 pages 1–2 + 1959/6 pages 1–4
  • Detailed report: DTS magazine , West issue 1959/8 + 1959/9
  • Winfried Stöckmann: From Dortmund to Dortmund 1959–1989 , DTS magazine , 1985/12 pages 16–17
  • Winfried Stöckmann: 47 Nations 1959 in Dortmund , DTS magazine , 1987/1 pages 34–35 + 1987/2 pages 14–15 + 1987/6 pages 26–27
  • Erich Bachmann: From the table tennis archive by E. Bachmann , Tischtennis Magazin 2007/6, pages 18–19 (Official organ of the Lower Saxony TT Association )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d In the ITTF database , Rolf Rätsch is incorrectly listed as "Theo Raetsch".
  2. ↑ a b c Waltraud Trapp is incorrectly listed as "Ingrid Trapp" in the ITTF database .
  3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/10 regional north page 2
  4. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, 2008, issue 50, page 25 ( PDF )
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/7 page 67
  6. ↑ Berliner Verband mourns honorary member Gerhard Wernicke , message from July 9, 2013 on tischtennis.de ( memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 9, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  7. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2016/4 Region 2, page 4
  8. ↑ a b Journal DTS , 1987/1, pages 34–35
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/14 West issue, page 2
  10. ↑ There are no references in the 1959 DTS editions about a "Lothar Stegmann". It is definitely not about " Elmar Stegmann "
  11. ↑ is missing from the ITTF participant list