Table tennis world championship 1965

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Table tennis Table tennis world championship
1963 Czech RepublicCzech Republic ← WM 1965 → 1967 SwedenSweden
date April 15-25, 1965
venue Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Ljubljana
winner
Single (♂) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chuang Tse-Tung
Single (♀) JapanJapan Naoko Fukazu
Double (♂) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chuang Tse-Tung Xu Yinsheng
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Double (♀) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cheng min-chih Lin Hui-Ching
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Doubles (mixed) JapanJapan Kōji Kimura Masako Seki
JapanJapan
Team (♂) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Team (♀) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China

The 28th table tennis world championship took place from April 15 to 25, 1965 in Ljubljana (Yugoslavia). The games were played in the sports hall in Tivoli Park (Stanko Bloudek Park). A total of 180,000 spectators saw the games.

Japan won the women's singles and mixed titles. The Chinese won the remaining five competitions. Eberhard Schöler was third in the individual. When Chuang Tse-Tung won the men's singles title, some observers suspected that Li Fu-Jung was instructed to purposely lose the final.

The appearance of the German athletes was impaired by the crisis that prevailed in the leadership of the German Table Tennis Federation DTTB (see The Ness Affair ).

The game in the men's singles between Eberhard Schöler and the Chinese Zhang Xielin in the quarter-finals is legendary . Both players were defense specialists. After more than two hours of play, the fifth set had to bring the decision. After a changeable course with net and edge balls on both sides, Schöler won in extra time with 27:25. Half an hour later, the completely exhausted Schöler had to face the Chinese defending champion Chuang Tse-Tung in the semifinals . Here he was without a chance and lost. Chuang Tse-Tung successfully defended his title in the men's singles against the "eternal runner-up" Li Fu-Jung .

Game system of team competitions

Men's

The men's teams were drawn into 12 preliminary round groups with three to four teams each. The 12 group winners then competed against each other in two six-man intermediate round groups. The group winners of these intermediate round groups contested the final, the second played for places three to four, etc. In this way, places 1 to 12 were determined. Similarly, the second of the preliminary round groups came in two six-man intermediate round groups, where they played for places 13 to 24. The third of the preliminary round groups also played for places 25 to 36.

A team fight was held according to the Swaythling Cup system , i.e. without doubles.

Ladies

The women's teams were drawn into 8 preliminary round groups with four to five teams each. The 8 group winners then competed against each other in two groups of four intermediate rounds. The group winners played the final, the second played for places three to four, etc. In this way, places 1 to 8 were determined. According to the same system as for the men, the second of the preliminary round groups played in two intermediate round groups of four for places 9 to 16, the third for places 17 to 24, etc.

A women's team consisted of two players. The game was played according to the Corbillon Cup system , i.e. first two singles, then one double and then again a maximum of two singles.

Cutting off the Germans

Men's team Germany

Although Martin Ness was in good shape in the run-up to this World Cup, he was not nominated because of "non-comradely behavior" (see The Ness Affair ). Erich Kober stepped in at short notice to look after the German men. The originally scheduled supervisors were not available because they - as a member of the DTTB sports committee - had resigned in the course of the Ness affair.

In the group 4 preliminary round, Germany prevailed 5-0 against Scotland and South Vietnam. Israel was drawn as the fourth team in Group 4, but this nation stayed away from the World Cup. Thus Germany reached the second round.

Here was only a 5-4 win against Romania. The games against China (1: 5), USSR (4: 5), Yugoslavia (3: 5) and CSSR (1: 5) were lost. Eberhard Schöler was the only European to win a game against a Chinese in the team competition, namely against Xu Yinsheng . Erich Arndt injured himself in the game against the USSR from a fall and therefore had to take a break against Yugoslavia. Before the game against Hungary, Conny Freundorfer , who was only used once, left early because he was dissatisfied with the team management. In the game for places 9 and 10, the Hungary team lost 3: 5.

The balance sheets of the players in the team fights:

player Balance sheet
Eberhard Schöler 17: 3
Erich Arndt 2: 7
Conny Freundorfer 2-0
Ernst Gomolla 5:11
Hans Micheiloff 1: 8

GDR men's team

The GDR team - referred to as the "East Zone" in German sources - won the preliminary round in Group 11 against Canada and Ecuador 5-0. After the 2: 5 defeat by England she reached second place. In the intermediate group of runners-up, she prevailed against France, Poland and the USA with 5: 0 each and against Austria with 5: 1. The fight against Denmark was lost 2: 5. As a result, she landed in second place and played against the second in the parallel group for 15th place. This fight against India was won 5-0.

Women's team Germany

In the preliminary round group 6, the German women reached the intermediate round of the top of the table after victories over Finland, Wales and Australia (3-0 each). Here they lost to China and Romania 3-0 and won 3-2 against Yugoslavia. As third they fought against Hungary, the third in the parallel group, for places 5 and 6. The German women came in 6th through the 1: 3 defeat.

Agnes Simon and Edit Buchholz competed in all singles, Ingrid Kriegelstein and Margrit Siebert only came into play in doubles. The pairing Kriegelstein / Siebert was called up as a double in the preliminary round. Then experimented with the combinations Simon / Buchholz and Simon / Kriegelstein.

The balance sheets of the players in the team fights:

Player singles Double
Agnes Simon 5: 4 1: 3
Edit Buchholz 5: 3 0: 2
Ingrid Kriegelstein 0-0 4: 1
Margrit Siebert 0-0 3-0

Women's team GDR

The GDR women's team also came second in group 8. India and Canada were defeated 3-0, against the CSSR there was a 3-0 defeat. In the second round of runners-up, it beat Belgium, Bulgaria and Sweden 3-0 and finished first. In the subsequent game against the first in the parallel group for 9th place, the USSR, the GDR lost 3-0.

Men's singles Germany

The most successful was Eberhard Schöler , who made it to the semi-finals. On the way there he eliminated Michael Behan (Canada), Jung Kil Wa (North Korea), Hans Alsér (Sweden), and Edvard Vecko (Yugoslavia). His quarter-final victory over world number three Zhang Xielin (China) , which he won after about two hours, was described as the most insane game there has ever been . Since Schöler only had a half hour break, he was too exhausted in the semifinals against Zhuang Zedong and lost.

The remaining West German players did not survive the first round. Hans Micheiloff was the only German to compete in the qualifying round, where he first defeated Alfred Sciberras (Malta) and then lost to the North Korean Jung Ryang Woong. Ernst Gomolla was eliminated by János Faházi (Hungary). Erich Arndt lost against the Chinese Ma Chin-pao only in the extension of the fifth set by an edge ball.

Conny Freundorfer had already left before.

GDR men's singles

Only Siegfried Lemke survived the first round against Josef Bauregger (Austria). Then he was kicked out of the race by the Yugoslav Edvard Vecko . In the qualification, Peter Fähnrich failed to Antun Stipančić (Yugoslavia) and Wolfgang Stein to Freddy Hansen (Denmark). Without having to compete in the qualification, Lothar Pleuse lost against Sándor Harangi (Hungary) and Bernd Pornack against Achmad Djaya (Indonesia) in the first main round .

Women's singles Germany

Agnes Simon reached the round of 16. She eliminated Signe Paisjärv (USSR) and Li Ho-nan (China), but not the Japanese Masako Seki . Also Edit Buchholz came after victories over Birgitta Walfridsson (Sweden) and Lesley Bell (England) the last sixteen. This was the end of the line against the future world champion Naoko Fukazu (Japan).

Ingrid Kriegelstein first had to pass the qualification against Cadillon (Poland) (no fight) and Anne-Marie Wijnants (Netherlands). Then she lost to Eleonora Vlaicov (Romania). Margrit Siebert qualified against Danica Nicolic (Yugoslavia), then the Englishwoman Diane Rowe was too strong. Newcomer Christel Lang prevailed against Ramona Darbin (Iran) and Maija Nieminen (Finland) in qualifying, only to lose against Cirila Pirc (Yugoslavia).

Women's singles DDR

Only Doris Hovestädt did not need to go through the qualifying round. However, she lost in the first round against the Russian Swetlana Grinberg . Elke Richter got the furthest. She qualified against Michele Boiteux (France) and Ethel Jacks (Ghana), prevailed against Lena Rundström (Sweden), but was then defeated by Maria Alexandru (Romania). Gabriele Geißler won against Lis Ramberg (Denmark), but round one ended against Masako Seki (Japan), as did for Carla Strauss after victories over Marie-France Petre (Belgium) and Vera Arslanagic (Yugoslavia) and the elimination against Naoko Fukazu (Japan).

Men's doubles Germany and GDR

Schöler / Gomolla had no problems with the Emmanuel Aryee Quaye / Ebenezer Quaye doubles (10, 5, 3), then the Chinese Chou Lan-Sun / Yu Chang-Chun were too strong. Arndt / Vojislav Marković (Germany / Yugoslavia) survived the first round, but were then defeated by the East German Peter Fähnrich / Bernd Pornack . Because of Freundorfer's departure Micheiloff remained without a double partner.

Fähnrich / Pornack threw Erich Arndt / Vojislav Marković (Germany / Yugoslavia) out of the racein the second round, then it was the last sixteen against Dragutin Šurbek / Zeljko Hrbud (Yugoslavia). Lemke / Pleuse retired after defeating Ib Hückelkamp / Hansen (Denmark) in the second round against Kōji Kimura / Ken Konaka (Japan). Rotislav Stepanek / Stein , who lost to Wang Chia-Sheng / Li Fu-Jung (China), gotjust as far.

Ladies doubles Germany and GDR

No West German women's doubles survived the first main round.

Lang / Jitka Karlíková (CSSR) won the qualification over Loukia Skrivanou / Panagiota Kotsia (Greece) and Ramona Darbin / Elyaswand (Iran). Then they met the later world championship doubles Cheng min-chih / Lin Hui-Ching (China), against whom no set win was achieved. Buchholz / Kriegelstein lost to the semi-finalists Feng Meng-Ya / Li Ho-Nan (China). Simon / Siebert lost the domestic German duel with Gabriele Geißler / Doris Hovestädt (GDR) 3-1.

The East German doubles, which each reached the second main round, were more successful.

Geißler / Hovestädt sat in the qualification against Lena Rundström / Eva Johansson (Sweden) and Ursula Stulmeyer / Ria Bogmans (Netherlands). Then they threw Agnes Simon / Margrit Siebert (Germany) out of the running, but not Maria Alexandru / Ella Constantinescu (Romania). Richter / Strauss won against Eva Banhidy / Christine Shepherd (Australia) and Eleonora Vlaicov / Viorica Ivan (Romania), but then lost to Chou Li-ling / Chou Paochin (China).

Mixed Germany and GDR

useful information

  • A well-noticed innovation was a light panel attached to the wall, on which the results were displayed for all viewers to see. The illuminated panel consisted of 7,500 light bulbs and 15,000 transistors.
  • World champion Chuang Tse-Tung received a moped, world champion Naoko Fukazu a carpet.
  • Ethel Jacks (Ghana) was chosen as the most attractive woman for Miss SPENT (= Miss WM)

Congresses

The bodies of the world association ITTF and the European association ETTU met during the world championship . Some resolutions:

  • the 1969 World Cup was awarded to Germany.
  • DTTB President Kurt Entholt was appointed to the ITTF Board of Directors.
  • the color of the table was set to matt dark green.

philately

On April 15, 1965, two postage stamps were issued by Yugoslavia ( Michel catalog no. 1104–1105). A special postmark was used in Ljubljana from April 15-25, 1965. Four postage stamps (Michel catalog no. 864-867) were issued on April 25, 1965 by the People's Republic of China. There were also two first day special postmarks from Beijing and Shanghai.

Results

The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:

competition rank winner
Team men 1. China (Chou Lan-Sun, Li Fu-Jung , Zhang Xielin , Xu Yinsheng , Chuang Tse-Tung )
2. Japan ( Ichiro Ogimura , Kōji Kimura , Ken Konaka, Takao Nohira, Hiroshi Takahashi )
3. North Korea (Ryang Woong Jung, Jung Sam Kim, Kil Hwa Jung, Sin Il Pak, Chang Ho Kim)
3. Sweden (Stellan Bengtsson 1, Carl-Johan Bernhardt , Hans Alsér , Kjell Johansson )
10. FRG ( Eberhard Schöler , Erich Arndt , Conny Freundorfer , Ernst Gomolla , Hans Micheiloff )
15th GDR ( Peter Fähnrich , Siegfried Lemke , Lothar Pleuse , Bernd Pornack , Wolfgang Stein )
21st Austria ( Klaus Bacher , Josef Bauregger , Josef Eberl , Günter Heine , Conrad Köllner , Josef Sedelmayer )
24. Switzerland (Lajos Antal, Claude Duvernay, Marcel Grimm , Nicolas Pewny, Markus Schmid, André Steckler)
Team women 1. China ( Cheng min-chih , Li Ho-Nan, Liang Li-Chen , Lin Hui-Ching )
2. Japan ( Naoko Fukazu , Masako Seki , Noriko Isomura, Noriko Yamanaka )
3. England ( Mary Shannon , Lesley Bell , Irene Ogus, Diane Rowe )
6th BRD ( Agnes Simon , Edit Buchholz , Ingrid Kriegelstein , Margrit Siebert )
10. GDR ( Gabriele Geißler , Doris Hovestädt , Elke Richter , Carla Strauss )
18th Austria (Sonja Petsche, Friederike Scharfegger , Elisabeth Willinger , Henrike Willinger )
20th Switzerland (Christiane Andre, Monique Jaquet , Michele Stirn)
Men's singles 1. Chuang Tse-Tung - CHN
2. Li Fu-Jung - CHN
3. Chou Lan-Sun - CHN
3. Eberhard Schöler - FRG
Ladies singles 1. Naoko Fukazu - JPN
2. Lin Hui-Ching - CHN
3. Noriko Yamanaka - JPN
3. Li Li - CHN
Men's doubles 1. Chuang Tse-Tung / Xu Yinsheng - CHN
2. Zhang Xielin / Wang Zhiliang - CHN
3. Wang Chia-Sheng / Li Fu-Jung - CHN
3. Chou Lan-Sun / Yu Chang-Chun - CHN
Ladies doubles 1. Cheng min-chih / Lin Hui-Ching - CHN
2. Masako Seki / Noriko Yamanaka - JPN
3. Feng Meng-Ya / Li Ho-Nan - CHN
3. Li Li / Liang Li-Chen - CHN
Mixed 1. Kōji Kimura / Masako Seki - JPN
2. Zhang Xielin / Lin Hui-Ching - CHN
3. Ken Konaka / Naoko Fukazu - JPN
3. Chuang Tse-Tung / Liang Li-Chen - CHN

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 5 4th 7th 16
2 JapanJapan Japan 2 3 2 7th
3 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 0 0 1 1
3 Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 0 0 1 1
3 EnglandEngland England 0 0 1 1
Total 7th 7th 13 27

literature

  • Preview: DTS magazine , issue West 1965, issue 8
  • Detailed reports: DTS magazine , West 1965 issue, issue 9 and 10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Li had to obey - DTS magazine , 1965/10 West issue, pp. 6 + 18