Table tennis world championship 1961
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | April 5-14, 1961 | |||
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 Beijing
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| Single (♂) |
Zhuang Zedong
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| Single (♀) |
Qiu Zhonghui
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| Double (♂) |
 Nobuya Hoshino Kōji Kimura
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| Double (♀) |
 Maria Alexandru Georgita Pitica
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Ichiro Ogimura Kimiyo Matsuzaki
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| Team (♂) |
People's Republic of China
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| Team (♀) |
Japan
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The 26th World Table Tennis Championships took place from April 5th to 14th, 1961 in Beijing (China). The venue was the 15,000-seat workers' sports hall .
Overview
30 nations were represented. The Chinese won both individual competitions as well as the men's team tournament. Zhuang Zedong dethroned Rong Guotuan , the 1959 world champion , and won his first of three titles in men's singles. As in 1963 and 1965, the opponent in the final was his compatriot Li Furong , who later became a successful coach of the Chinese national table tennis team. Qiu Zhonghui won gold in the women's singles. Europe could only win one title with the women's doubles.
Observers criticized the Chinese stable management. Thirteen games were handed in without a fight if purely Chinese pairings were scheduled.
Zhuang Zedong and Li Furong were representatives of the new Chinese table tennis school. In penholder style play, with fast, highly elastic balls outer coverings waiving the Topspin with dangerous impacts and harsh counterattacks and shots immediately the decision seeking it shaped a whole generation of Chinese table tennis player.
Game system of team competitions
The men's teams were drawn into three groups, two groups of nine and one group of eight. 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 finals. Here China prevailed against Hungary with 7: 2 and against Japan with 5: 3 and thus became world champions. Japan took silver by beating Hungary 5-2.
The women's teams were also drawn into three groups, two groups of six and one group of seven. 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 Romania played in the everyone against everyone system for the medal ranks. Japan defeated China 3-2 and Romania 5-0 to secure gold. China took silver with a 3-2 win against Romania.
Cutting off the Germans
Men's team Germany and GDR
Germany defeated the teams from Ecuador, Nepal, Burma, Ghana and Mongolia 5-0 each and also retained the upper hand against Czechoslovakia 5-3. Only one set win was achieved against China at 0: 5. The prestige duel against the GDR was lost 3: 5. Since the GDR only lost to the group leader China, they achieved second place. Germany came in third.
- GDR - Germany 5: 3
Reimann – Prandke 1:2 Pleuse – Ness 2:1 Schneider – Freundorfer 2:0 (21:9, 21:11) Pleuse – Prandke 2:0 Reimann – Freundorfer 1:2 Schneider – Ness 2:0 Pleuse – Freundorfer 1:2 (20:22, 24:22, 25:27) Schneider – Prandke 2:1
Women's team Germany and GDR
For women, too, Germany and the GDR ended up in one group. Germany won 3-1 against Poland and 3-0 against Mongolia. On the other hand there were three defeats: 0: 3 against Romania, 2: 3 against Hungary and 1: 3 against the GDR. The GDR still won against Mongolia and lost to Romania, Hungary and Poland. In Group A, Germany, the GDR and Poland came third, tied behind Romania and Hungary.
- GDR - Germany 3: 1
Bannach – Kruse 0:2 Kunz – Müser 2:0 Kalweit/Kunz – Kruse/Müser 2:0 Kunz – Kruse 2:0
Men's singles Germany and GDR
Conny Freundorfer reached the last sixteen by defeating Lu Chia-Chung (China), A. Cyrus (Poland) and Ludvík Vyhnanovský (CSSR). Here he lost against the eventual world champion Chuang Tse-Tung with 0: 3.
Wolfgang Prandke made it into the last 32 with victories over Chee Nam Wong (Singapore) and Yu-Hai Liang (China). Then he lost to the Chinese Hu Tap-Pen. In the same round Ernst Gomolla was eliminated by Teruo Murakami (Japan) after beating Murray Dunn (New Zealand) and Yu Chang-Chun (China). Martin Ness won against Tran (North Vietnam) and then lost to Ou Sheng-Lien (China).
No GDR player survived the second round. Lothar Pleuse eliminated Myint Maung (Burma) and then failed because of the Chinese Ma Chin-Pao. Heinz Reimann lost after a bye against Su Kuo-Hsi (China), as did Heinz Schneider against Chuang (China). Siegfried Lemke lost to the Chinese Chen Hsieh-Chung in the first round.
Ladies singles Germany and GDR
Jutta Kruse got the furthest. After victories over the Chinese Chou and Shao Lan-Fang, she was eliminated in the round of 16 against Éva Kóczián (Hungary). Rosemarie Gomolla advanced one round against Z. Rosales (Cuba), but not against Yang (China). In the following consolation round she reached the final. Inge Müser was eliminated in the first round against Chen Ying-mei (China).
Sigrun Kunz was among the last 32 when she won against Teng Chu-Chun (China) after a bye, but then failed to Wang Hsien (China). Ingrid Hollmann won against Aldona Kondrataite (Soviet Union) and then lost to the Chinese Qiu Zhonghui . Christa Bannach and Doris Kalweit were eliminated in the second round.
Men's doubles Germany and GDR
The most successful were Freundorfer / Ness , who threw Heng Chew Loh / Weng Hoe Poon (Singapore) and An / Liang Yu-Hai (China) out of the running. The last sixteen was against Ichiro Ogimura / Teruo Murakami (Japan). Prandke / Gomolla lost to Chu / Ma Gomolla (China)
Schneider / Pleuse won against Hsueh / Hu (China) and then lost against the Hungarians Zoltán Berczik / Ferenc Sidó . Reimann / Lemke came just as far,prevailing against Duc Long Bui / Nguyen (North Vietnam) and then failing against Tsai Ming-Shu / Tu Han-Kong (China).
Ladies doubles Germany and GDR
No women's doubles reached the third round. Kruse / Müser defeated Reshma Shah / M. Shah (Nepal), after that the Chinese Liang Li-Chen / Han Yu-Chen were too strong. Also Bannach / Hollmann came the next round against Neti Davis / Joan Green (New Zealand). They had to admit defeat against Hu / Wang (China). Kalweit / Kunz had bye tickets and then lost to Chang Hsiu-Ying / Yang (China). The international doubles Gomolla / Norma Buckland (Germany / Australia) were eliminated in the first round against Marita Carlsson / Chou Mei-Chen (Sweden / China).
Mixed Germany and GDR
Only Lemke / Hollmann had to compete in the first round, where they were eliminated against Ian Harrison / Diane Rowe (England). All other German mixed pairs initially had bye. Of these, Gomolla / Monique Alber (Germany / France) lost to Wang / Sun Mei-ying (China) and Pleuse / Bannach to Teruo Murakami / Kazuko Ito (Japan) in round two . The third round was reached by Prandke / Kruse (victory over Lohani / Shah, Nepal; defeat against Ichiro Ogimura / Kimiyo Matsuzaki , Japan), Schneider / Kalweit (victory over Hans Alsér / Marita Carlson, Sweden; defeat against Wang / Wang, China), Ness / Gomolla (victory over Christian Heyerdahl / Britt Anderson, Sweden; defeat against Yang / Ti Chiang-Hua, China), Reimann / Kunz (victory over EA Aryee / Ethel Jacks, Ghana; defeat against Wang / Sun, China) and Freundorfer / Müser (loss to Li / Han, China).
useful information
- With an average age of 20 years, Germany is the youngest team at a World Cup after World War II . The substitute players Erich Arndt and Eberhard Schöler as well as Gudrun Müller and Uschi Matthias did not have to travel because none of the nominated players canceled.
- The captains and officials played in the accompanying tournament, the Jubilee Cup . Here Dieter Mauritz reached the semifinals.
- China issued a set of four postage stamps with table tennis motifs ( Michel catalog no. 591–594)
- In addition there was a first day special cancellation from Peking and a block edition ( Michel catalog block no. 7).
Results
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
People's Republic of China
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3 | 4th | 8th | 15th |
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Japan
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3 | 1 | 2 | 6th |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
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1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4th |
 Hungary
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0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th | |
literature
- Preview, grouping, list of participants - DTS magazine , 1961/6 West p. 3
- Detailed report: DTS magazine , 1961/9 West issue