Table tennis world championship 1969
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | April 17-27, 1969 | |||
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 Munich
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| Single (♂) |
 Shigeo Itoh
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| Single (♀) |
Toshiko Kowada
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| Double (♂) |
 Hans Alsér Kjell Johansson
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| Double (♀) |
 Swetlana Grinberg Soja Rudnowa
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Nobuhiko Hasegawa Yasuko Konno
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| Team (♂) |
Japan
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| Team (♀) |
Soviet Union
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The 30th table tennis world championship took place from April 17th to 27th, 1969 in Munich (Germany). It was the third World Cup that took place in Germany after 1930 and 1959 . The venue was the ice rink , which was criticized a bit because strong drafts made the ball trajectories sometimes unpredictable and thus influenced the games. In addition, the light gray - almost white - floor put the defenders at a huge disadvantage, because they could only see the white ball very late because of the low contrast. In addition, there was no heating, which had a negative effect because of the cold April days.
In advance, the cities of Dortmund and Essen had applied to host the World Cup.
Germany won three silver medals, namely the BRD men's team, Eberhard Schöler in the individual and Gabriele Geißler (GDR) also in the individual.
Attendees
48 men's and 37 women's teams from 55 nations took part. 227 men and 145 women competed in the individual competitions. The GDR only provided a women's team, but not a men's team. China stayed away again, North Korea withdrew its already registered athletes.
The Russian Soja Rudnowa caused a sensation in the women's team games and in women's doubles . Like the Asians playing in penholder grip, she impressed with aggressive offensive table tennis. Team and double titles (with Swetlana Grinberg ) were the reward for a strong performance.
The Swedish men's duo Hans Alsér / Kjell Johansson defended the title won in 1967 impressively.
Cutting off the Germans
Men's team
Germany was very successful under coach Vilim Harangozo and captain Werner Haupt . The men's team won 5: 0 against Indonesia, Ghana, the United Arab Republic and France, then 5: 3 against South Korea, 5: 4 against Sweden, 5: 0 against Ireland and 5: 3 against CSSR.
In the final she lost 5: 3 to Japan and was second. Bernt Jansen from Osnabrück won a thrilling game against the reigning individual world champion Nobuhiko Hasegawa . Eberhard Schöler contributed two more points by winning against Shigeo Itoh and Nobuhiko Hasegawa - but lost against the third Japanese Mitsuru Kohno . Despite a good performance, Wilfried Lieck did not win a point in this exciting final.
Women's team
The women's team won 3-0 against Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Sweden, GDR and South Korea and lost 3-0 against Japan and Romania. This was enough for 5th place. In the run-up to the World Cup, Agnes Simon had to cancel her participation due to an injury.
Men's singles
A total of 16 men were registered for Germany.
Wilfried Lieck was eliminated in the round of 32 (against Nobuhiko Hasegawa ) as well as Klaus Solka (against Chung Cha Hyun, South Korea) and Friedrich Haase (against Sugeng Utomo Soewindo, Indonesia).
At this point in time Bernt Jansen (against Zlatko Čordaš ), Martin Ness (against Dragutin Šurbek ) and Conny Freundorfer (against János Borzsei ) were already out of the running.
Eberhard Schöler reached the final after victories against, among others, Anatoli Amelin (USSR), Jaroslav Staněk (CSSR) and Tokyo Tasaka (Japan). In a dramatic defensive battle he had to admit defeat in front of more than 6,000 spectators despite 2-0 lead after sets against the Japanese Shigeo Itoh .
Schöler received the Swaythling Club International Richard Bergmann Prize for his exemplary and fair behavior .
Ladies singles
In the last sixteen Rosemarie Seidel was eliminated by Miho Hamada (Japan). Here Diane Schöler won against Kasuko Ito (Japan), but then lost in the time game against Maria Alexandru .
Edit Buchholz came under the last eight after defeating Pauline Piddock (England), but lost to top GDR player Gabriele Geißler after a 2-0 lead with 2: 3.
Christel Kaib was defeated by the Japanese Kasuko Ito after getting through without a fight.
The East Berlin defender Gabriele Geißler followed her victory over Edit Buchholz with a 3-2 win over Miho Hamada (Japan) by catching up a 0-2 deficit, and so she got into the final, where she won the first one The set against the Japanese Toshiko Kowada ultimately had no chance and lost 1: 3.
Christa Rühl advanced one round without a fight and then won against Đurđa Duganić (Yugoslavia). Against the later bronze medalist Maria Alexandru (Romania) she lost smoothly.
Petra Stephan was eliminated in the first round against Asta Godrajtite (USSR).
Men's doubles
Jansen / Hans Micheiloff came the furthest . In the quarterfinals they lost against the Japanese Kohno / Itoh .
Ladies doubles
Here the GDR player Petra Stephan was most successful together with Asta Godrajtite (USSR). In the quarterfinals they lost to Hwan Hwan Choi / Jung Sook Choi from South Korea. Previously they had won against Patty Martinez / Wendy Hicks (USA), Buchholz / Prell and Toshiko Kowada / Yasuko Konno (Japan).
Christel Kaib / Müller lost to Mary van Ruiten / Mieke ten Broek (Netherlands) in the first round.
Christa Rühl / Monika Block came after a victory over Rigmor Sörensen / Berit Ommedal (Norway) and a win without a fight in the third round, where they were eliminated against the later world champions Swetlana Grinberg / Soja Rudnowa (SU).
Mixed
In mixed, the couple Eberhard and Diane Schöler reached the quarter-finals, where they lost against the Japanese Mitsuru Kōno / Saeko Hirota .
useful information
- Eberhard Schöler remained undefeated in the team fights with the exception of the final.
- In the game Eberhard Schöler against the Swede Hans Alsér it was 0-2 after 15 minutes in the first set. This started the time game , Schöler won 2-1.
- The victory of the Romanian women's team over Japan was seen as a sensation.
- The Englishwoman Pauline Piddock surprisingly defeated the world champion Sachiko Morisawa from Japan in the individual competition .
- Japan's top player Yukie Ōzeki was not nominated for the World Cup because of her undisciplined behavior.
- From April 17 to 27, 1969, the Deutsche Bundespost used a special postmark in Munich in the special mobile post office in front of the ice rink on Oberwiesenfeld.
Results
The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:
- Gentlemen: Conny Freundorfer , Ernst Gomolla , Friedrich Haase , Hans-Jürgen Hackenberg , Günter Köcher , Jochen Leiß , Jürgen Lieder , Hans Micheiloff , Klaus Schmittinger , Karl-Heinz Scholl , Detlef Siewert , Klaus Solka
- Women: Ingrid Bahnert , Monika Block , Christel Kaib , Monika Kneip , Jutta Krüger , Heidi Müller (Munich), Sieglinde Prell , Christa Rühl , Brigitte Scharmacher , Erika Schmollinger (formerly Erika Koch), Hannelore Schneider (formerly Hannelore Männer), Rosemarie Seidel , Almuth Stöhr
German referees (selection): Eugen Bach (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Rhineland-Palatinate), Willi Heringlehner, Klaus Knott (Munich), Dieter Kempf, Hans J. Jauss (Bavaria), Paul-Wilhelm Marx (WTTV), Erich Bachmann ( Braunschweig).
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
Japan
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4th | 2 | 6th | 12 |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 |
Sweden
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4th |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
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0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 |
 BR Germany
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0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6th |
 German Democratic Republic
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7th |
 England
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7th |
 Czechoslovakia
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7th |
 South Korea
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7th |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th | |
literature
- Winfried Stöckman: Eberhard Schöler heated everyone up in the icy hall , DTS magazine , 1988/12 pages 8-10
- Paul Link: History , DTS magazine , 1999/4 pages 34–36
Web links
- Entry in ITTF database
- www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de : UFA-Besides 665/1969 April 22, 1969: "7th Munich: Table tennis world championship"