Table tennis world championship 1967
Table tennis world championship | ||||
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date | April 11-21, 1967 | |||
venue | Stockholm | |||
winner | ||||
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Single (♂) | Nobuhiko Hasegawa | |||
Single (♀) | Sachiko Morisawa | |||
Double (♂) |
Hans Alsér Kjell Johansson |
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Double (♀) |
Saeko Hirota Sachiko Morisawa |
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Doubles (mixed) |
Nobuhiko Hasegawa Noriko Yamanaka |
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Team (♂) | Japan | |||
Team (♀) | Japan |
The 29th table tennis world championship took place from April 11 to 21, 1967 in Stockholm (Sweden). The game was played in the Johanneshov district in the ice rink.
The winners
Because of the absence of the athletes from China (because of the cultural revolution ), who won all titles at the previous World Cup with the exception of the women's singles and the mixed competition, the Japanese players dominated this World Cup. Only the Swedish double Hans Alsér / Kjell Johansson could keep a title in Europe.
The men's singles title goes to Nobuhiko Hasegawa , the only player on the Japanese team to hold the European shakehand style racket . Eberhard Schöler achieved an excellent 3rd place.
Kjell Johansson (Sweden) receives the Richard Bergmann Swaythling Club International Award for FairPlay.
The Romanian "topspin artist" Dorin Giurgiucă , who fascinated the audience with his game at the international German championships in 1964/65, won the bronze medal in mixed together with Maria Alexandru-Golopenta - the only world championship medal that he should ever win.
Game mode
Team competition
In the team competition, the teams had to qualify for the intermediate round in preliminary round matches. There were 8 preliminary round groups with 5 or 6 teams each for men and 3 or 4 teams for women. The teams were drawn to the individual groups beforehand. In the preliminary round groups "everyone played against everyone", the group leader qualified for the intermediate round.
In the intermediate round, the 8 qualified teams were divided into 2 groups of 4 teams each. In both groups, “everyone played against everyone” again.
Then played
- the first two in the final of the World Cup
- the two second for third and fourth place
- the two thirds for 5th and 6th place
- the two fourths for 7th and 8th place
Cutting off the West Germans
Team competition men
The German team achieved an unexpected fourth place. Team captain was Rudi Gruber .
After victories over Ireland (5: 0), Switzerland (5: 1), Portugal (5: 1), Israel (5: 3) and Romania (5: 3), Germany took first place and was thus qualified for the second round. Here the team won against the USSR (5: 3) and lost to Yugoslavia (5: 4) and Japan (5: 1). This was enough for second place.
The opponent in the final round in the game for third or fourth place was Sweden. Eberhard Schöler paused because of a leg injury . After victories by Arndt and Ness , Germany led 2-0, but after that no individual could be won. After the 5-2 defeat, the German team finished fourth.
Worth noting: In the game against Romania broke out between Eberhard Schöler and Gheorghe Cobirzan in the first set with the score at 1: 0 to time game , won the Schöler safe.
Team competition women
The German women qualified for the second round after winning the preliminary round over Canada (3: 0) and Poland (3: 1). Here they lost all games, namely against Hungary (3: 2), Romania (3: 1) and the USSR (3: 1). As a result, they fought for places 7 and 8 in fourth place in the second round.
The opponent was the GDR. Here the BRD representation prevailed just 3: 2 and reached 7th place in the final accounts, ahead of the GDR in 8th place.
The women's team captain was Hanne Schlaf .
Men's singles
Eberhard Schöler came off best , reaching 3rd place. After easy wins over Chaim Edelstein (Israel) and Norbert Van de Walle (Belgium), he met Radu Negulescu (Romania). Here the time game started in the first set with a score of 2: 3 , which Schöler certainly won. The next opponent was the North Korean Kim Chang Ho , whom many experts saw as the World Cup favorite. Schöler narrowly lost the first two sets, but after that he won the next three sets after a great defensive battle and won this match (19:21, 18:21, 21:19, 21:15, 23:21). Schöler only had a few minutes' break until the next fight. Therefore, he had no serious chance against the eventual world champion Nobuhiko Hasegawa (Japan) and clearly lost.
Erich Arndt won against Bryan Foster (New Zealand) and Francois Blasen (Luxembourg). Against the Japanese defensive specialist Kenji Kasai, he lacked the punch in the end - he just lost in the fifth set and was eliminated.
Martin Ness was eliminated in the first round against Loka Purnomo (Indonesia), as did Wilfried Lieck against Jorgen Rosberg (Sweden).
Bernt Jansen retired after beating Claus Pedersen (Denmark) against the Japanese Kōji Kimura .
Men's doubles
The German doubles disappointed. Erich Arndt had the Yugoslav Zlatko Cordas as a partner . This double Arndt / Cordas threw Schöler / Ness out immediately in the first round, but then lost to the Englishmen Barnes / Denis Neale . Lieck / Jansen also failed in the first round against Köllner / Schlüter (Austria).
Ladies singles
Agnes Simon won against Galina Eremenko (USSR) and Maureen Heppel (England), but then lost to (the future German!) Marta Luzova (CSSR).
Diane Schöler was not yet eligible to play for the team, as she previously had English citizenship. She defeated Britta Christensen (Denmark) and Sárolta Lukacs (Hungary) and then retired against the Japanese Naoko Fukazu , who was world champion at the previous World Cup in 1965 and should win the runner-up at this World Cup.
Edit Buchholz lost immediately to Radmila Stojsic (Yugoslavia), as did Jutta Krüger to Signe Paisjärv (USSR).
Inge Harst went one round through Miroslawa Lisowska (Poland), but was eliminated here by Marita Neidert (Sweden).
Ladies doubles
Simon / Buchholz reached the quarter-finals after victories against Rita Pogosova / Evdokija Golubkova (USSR) and Sarolta Lukacs / Kisházi (Hungary), where they lost to the eventual world champions Morisawa / Saeko Hirota (Japan). Harst / Schöler prevailed against Lena Andersson / Anna-Karin Widen (Sweden), after which it was the final destination against Koczian / Jurik (Hungary). The international double Krüger / Resler (FRG / YUG) failed in the first round to Alexandru / Eleonora Vlaicov (Romania).
Mixed
In mixed, the Schöler couple reached the quarter-finals after winning over Ian Harrison / Wiliams (England), Lemke / Richter (GDR) and Bjorne Mellström / Laima Balaishite (Sweden / USSR), but were then able to beat Dorin Giurgiucă / Alexandru (Romania) not enforce. Arndt / Buchholz reached the round of 16 via Hans Kroon / Andersson (Sweden) and Matyas Beleznai / Kisházi (Hungary), where they were eliminated by Hasegawa / Noriko Yamanaka (Japan). Lieck / Harst reached the next round via Mikael Svensson / Eva Erfurth (Sweden), where they lost against the Hungarians Rózsás / Lukacs .
Cutting off the GDR
Team competition men
The GDR team took second place in the preliminary group and thus missed the intermediate round. Three wins against Indonesia, New Zealand and Spain were matched by a loss against Yugoslavia.
Team competition women
The women prevailed against Yugoslavia, Finland and Palestine and came to the intermediate round. Here they lost to Japan (3: 0), CSSR (3: 0) and England (3: 1). In the game for places 7 and 8, they were defeated by the West German team just 3: 2 and ended up in 8th place.
Men's singles
Siegfried Lemke got 3 rounds further through successes over Thomas Caffrey (Ireland), Christer Johansson (Sweden) and Erwin Klein (USA), then he lost to Sin II Pak (North Korea).
Wolfgang Stein beat the Hungarian István Jónyer and the Austrian Conrad Köllner , but not Chang Ho Kim (North Korea).
Wolfgang Vater retired after defeating Danny Dhondt (France) against Hans Alsér (Sweden).
In the first round, Bernd Pornack failed against Farokh Khodaiji (India).
Men's doubles
Lemke / Vater reached the quarter-finals with victories against Andersson / Johansson (Sweden), Ian Harrison / Stuart Gibbs (England), James Langan / Thomas Caffrey (Ireland), where the Japanese Hasegawa / Kohno were too strong.
Ladies singles
Doris Hovestädt advanced one round against Ilona Voštová (CSSR), against Éva Kóczián (Hungary) it was the last stop.
It was the same for Elke Richter : victory against Laima Balaishite (USSR) and defeat against Fukazu (Japan).
Gabriele Geißler made it to the quarter-finals by winning against Else Marie Hansen (Denmark), Radmila Stojsic (Yugoslavia) and Eleonora Mihalca (Romania), where the Japanese Sachiko Morisawa was too strong.
Ladies doubles
Geißler / Hovestädt survived the first round against Neti Traill / Catherine Johnson (New Zealand), then lost to Rudnowa / Grinberg (USSR)
Mixed
Father / Hovestädt got into the next round against Ivakitsch / Nesukaitis, where the Japanese Kimura / Fukazu proved to be stronger. Likewise came Lemke / judges but against Johansson / Rundström (Sweden) on, then lost against Schöler / Schöler (Germany). Stein / Geißler were eliminated directly against Kohno / Morisawa (Japan).
politics
- Because of the Cultural Revolution in China , no athletes from the People's Republic of China took part in the championships.
- The World Cup was originally assigned to Melbourne (Australia). However, the Australian government had refused in advance to guarantee entry permits for all nations. In particular because of the Vietnam War , the Australian government might want to refuse entry to athletes from North Vietnam. As a result, the ITTF decided in 1966 not to host the World Cup in Melbourne.
- The government of South Africa withdrew the passport of the president of the South African table tennis association CMBassa and thus prevented his participation in the ITTF congress in Stockholm.
- At the congress, the ITTF accepted Ceylon, Dahome, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and Syria as new members. The previously extraordinary member ("in good standing") South Africa became a full member.
useful information
- 54 national associations took part in this World Cup.
- Around 10,000 spectators saw the games.
- The Swaythling Club International (SCI) was founded.
- The Swede Kjell Johansson receives the Richard Bergmann Fair Play Prize from the SCI .
- On April 11, 1967, two postage stamps were issued by Sweden ( Michel catalog no. 578-579). A special postmark was used in Stockholm and Johanneshov. Three postage stamps (Michel catalog no. 773-775) were issued from North Korea on April 11, 1967.
Results
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1 | Japan | 6th | 4th | 3 | 13 |
2 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Soviet Union | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
4th | North Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
6th | BR Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
6th | Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
6th | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th |