Table tennis world championship 1971

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Table tennis Table tennis world championship
1969 GermanyGermany ← World Cup 1971 → 1973 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia
date 28.3. - 7.4.1971
venue JapanJapan Nagoya
winner
Single (♂) SwedenSweden Stellan Bengtsson
Single (♀) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lin Hui-ching
Double (♂) HungaryHungary István Jónyer Tibor Klampár
HungaryHungary
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) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chang Chih-Lin Lin Hui-Ching
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
Team (♂) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Team (♀) JapanJapan Japan


The 31st table tennis world championship took place from March 28th to April 7th, 1971 in Nagoya ( Japan ). The game was played in the hall of the Aichi-Gymnasium.

winner

For the first time since the 1965 World Cup in Ljubljana , the players from the People's Republic of China took part in the World Table Tennis Championships. China's gentlemen with the "old guard" around Chuang Tse-Tung and Li Fu-Jung also won the team competition with ease. The Chinese women had to give way to the Japanese women. The GDR was not represented.

A total of 39 men's and 27 women's teams took part.

In the men's singles, the only 18-year-old Swede Stellan Bengtsson won sensationally against defending champion Shigeo Itoh . For the first time since the 1961 World Cup, Lin Hui-Ching from China, a non-Japanese woman, became world champion in the women's singles.

Two young European players also won the men's doubles with István Jónyer / Tibor Klampár from Hungary.

The Austrian inventor and player Toni Hold astonished experts and opponents alike with the anti-topspin rubber he developed himself, which was made of a completely non-grip and inelastic top layer - more like cardboard than rubber - and a soft, coarse-pored sponge underlay. (9 years later, a hitherto completely unknown Briton John Hilton was to become European champion in Bern with a further development of this rubber.)

Eberhard and Diane Schöler won the bronze medal in mixed. It was the last medal they could win.

Game mode

Team competition men

First, the teams were drawn into 12 preliminary round groups consisting of three or four teams. According to the “everyone against everyone” mode, a ranking was played out.

The intermediate round followed. Two areas were formed with the following groups:

  • Group AI, Group A II, Group A III
  • Group BI, Group B II, Group B III, Group B IV

All groups consisted of 6 teams with the exception of group B IV, in which only three teams played. The 12 first placed in the preliminary round played in groups AI and BI, the second placed in groups A II and B II, the third in groups A III and B III. The remaining three teams competed in group B IV. In each group "everyone played against everyone".

Then played in the finals

  • the first two of group AI and BI in the final of the world championship
  • the two second from group AI and BI for 3rd and 4th place
  • the two thirds of groups AI and BI for 5th and 6th place
  • the two fourths of groups AI and BI for 7th and 8th place
  • the two fifths of groups AI and BI for 9th and 10th place
  • the two sixths from groups AI and BI for 11th and 12th place
  • the first two of groups A II and B II for 13th and 14th place
  • the two second from group A II and B II for 15th and 16th place
  • the two thirds of groups A II and B II for 17th and 18th place
  • the two fourths of groups A II and B II for 19th and 20th place
  • the two fifths of groups A II and B II for 21st and 22nd place
  • the two sixths of groups A II and B II for 23rd and 24th place
  • the first two of groups A III and B III for places 25 and 26
  • the two second from group A III and B III for places 27 and 28
  • the two thirds of groups A III and B III for 29th and 30th place
  • the two fourths of groups A III and B III for 31st and 32nd place
  • the two fifths of groups A III and B III for 33rd and 34th place
  • the two sixths of groups A III and B III for 35th and 36th place

Team competition women

The women's teams initially played in 12 preliminary round groups, each with two or three teams. The last of the groups of three were eliminated. The first came in the intermediate groups AI and BI, the second placed in groups A II and B II. The final round was then held in the same way as the men’s system.

Individual competitions

The individual competitions were held according to the knockout system. Only the losers of the preliminary round and the first round played in a consolation round ("Consolation").

According to a meeting of the ITTF Advisory Committee that met in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) in 1970, the number of participants in an association was limited. At previous world championships, the hosts in particular often registered a large number of active players in order to give them experience in international tournaments.

Cutting off the Germans

The German participants were supervised by Dr. Béla Simon , Rudi Gruber and Hannelore Schlaf .

Team competition men

The German team prevailed in the preliminary round against Nigeria, Malaysia and El Salvador 5-0 each. In the intermediate round AI she won against England 5: 4 and against Indonesia 5: 0, followed by defeats against Yugoslavia (3: 5) and Japan (1: 5). After defeating South Korea (5: 3) it was enough for 3rd place. In the final round, Germany lost against the third of the group BI Hungary with 2: 5 and was sixth.

Team competition women

The German women won the preliminary round against Nepal 3-0. In the intermediate group BI they defeated Hungary (3: 0) and Cambodia (3: 1), on the other hand they lost to Romania (2: 3), Japan (0: 3) and South Korea (0: 3). This meant fourth place and thus the fight for seventh place in the finals. Here they beat England 3-0.

Men's singles

Wilfried Lieck made it to the round of 16 after victories against VMMerchant (India), Yang (Cambodia) and Chou Lan-sun (China), where he was eliminated by Jaroslav Kunz (CSSR).

Eberhard Schöler won against Phillip Adenkunle Santos (Nigeria), but lost in the second round to three-time vice world champion Li Fu-Jung (China).

Martin Ness was eliminated immediately by Liang Geliang (China).

Bernt Jansen defeated Deepak Vadhera (India) and Derek Wall (Canada), in round 3 it was the last stop against the bronze medalist of the previous World Cup, Tokyo Tasaka (Japan).

Klaus Schmittinger won in the preliminary round against James Wuisan Empie Barlianto (Indonesia) and Waidi W. Dawodu (Nigeria), but lost in the first round against Štefan Kollárovits (CSSR). In the consolation round he came to the final, which he lost to Istvan Korpa .

Ladies singles

Marta Hejma , who was not yet allowed to play in the team competition for Germany because of her relocation from the CSSR, won the preliminary round over Yvonne Eyre-Fogarty (New Zealand), but lost in the first round to world champion Toshiko Kowada (Japan). In the consolation round she came to the final, where she was defeated by Swetlana Grinberg (USSR).

Diane Schöler lost to Kasuko Inoue (Japan) in the first round, as did Agnes Simon against La IS (South Korea).

Brigitte Scharmacher won against Ninu Shah (Nepal) and lost in Round 2 against Yasuko Konno (Japan).

Also Wiebke Hendriksen eliminated in the second round against after beating Ann Middleton-McMahon (Australia) Yukie Ozeki from (Japan).

Men's doubles

All German doubles were eliminated early:

Ladies doubles

The German women's doubles were also eliminated early:

  • Hejma / Scharmacher : Victory against Siswono / Nilasari (India), defeat against Ōzeki / Hamada (Japan)
  • Schöler / Simon : Victory against Traill / Fogarty (New Zealand), loss against Kobori / Kawamorita (Japan).
  • Wiebke Hendriksen played together with the Hungarian Judit Magos : win against Sweeris / Hicks (French Guiana / Hungary), loss against Kowada / Konno (Japan)

Mixed

politics

  • During this World Cup, China invited the American team to a guest appearance in Beijing. This visit was followed by meetings of high-level politicians (Nixon 1972), which eased tensions and improved relations. These events are now known as ping pong diplomacy . Thus this TT-WM got also world-political importance.
  • China banned its players from playing against players from South Vietnam or Cambodia. For this reason, Chuang Tse-Tung retired in the second round of the men's singles without a fight. The Chinese Lin Mei-chun also did not compete in the first round of the women's singles against Tan Sok Chen (Cambodia).

useful information

  • Shigeo Itoh (Japan) received the Richard Bergmann Prize for FairPlay.
  • The disregard of the Austrian Franz Thallinger was discussed controversially in advance.
  • The teams from Austria, Iran, Brazil, Greece and Malaysia did not initially make it into the group draw because their reports did not reach the organizers in time. They were subsequently added to the playgroups.
  • For reasons of cost, Switzerland decided not to participate. Instead, the money should be spent on promoting young talent.
  • The Japanese Post uses a special postmark for the TT World Championship in Nagoya.

Results

The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:

competition rank winner
Team men 1. China ( Li Fu-Jung , Li Ching-Kuang, Hsi En-Ting , Chuang Tse-Tung , Liang Geliang )
2. Japan (Tetsuo Inoue, Tokyo Tasaka , Mitsuru Kohno , Nobuhiko Hasegawa , Shigeo Itoh )
3. Yugoslavia ( Dragutin Šurbek , Zlatko Čordaš , Antun Stipančić , Milivoj Karakašević , Istvan Korpa )
6th Germany ( Bernt Jansen , Wilfried Lieck , Martin Ness , Klaus Schmittinger , Eberhard Schöler )
13th Austria ( Josef Bauregger , Günter Heine , Heinz Schlueter , Rudolf Weinmann )
Team women 1. Japan (Yasuko Konno, Emiko Ohba, Toshiko Kowada , Yukie Ōzeki )
2. China (Lin Mei-Chun, Li Li , Lin Hui-Ching , Cheng min-chih )
3. South Korea ( Lee Ailesa , Jung Sook Choi, Hyun Sook Chung, Na In-Sook )
7th Germany ( Wiebke Hendriksen , Brigitte Scharmacher , Diane Schöler , Agnes Simon )
14th Austria ( Gabriele Smekal , Elisabeth Willinger )
Men's singles 1. Stellan Bengtsson - SWE
2. Shigeo Itoh - JPN
3. Dragutin Šurbek - YUG
3. Hsi En-Ting - CHN
Ladies singles 1. Lin Hui-Ching - CHN
2. Cheng min-chih - CHN
3. Li Li - CHN
3. Ilona Voštová - TCH
Men's doubles 1. István Jónyer / Tibor Klampár - HUN
2. Liang Geliang / Chuang Tse-Tung - CHN
3. Katsuyuki Abe / Yujiro Imano - JPN
3. Tokyo Tasaka / Nobuhiko Hasegawa - JPN
Ladies doubles 1. Cheng min-chih / Lin Hui-Ching - CHN
2. Mieko Hirano / Reiko Sakamoto - JPN
3. Setsuko Kobori / Yukiko Kawamorita - JPN
3. Miho Hamada / Yukie Ōzeki - JPN
Mixed 1. Chang Chih-Lin / Lin Hui-Ching - CHN
2. Antun Stipančić - YUG / Maria Alexandru-Golopenta - ROM
3. Eberhard Schöler / Diane Schöler - FRG
3. Tokuyasu Nishii / Mieko Fukuno - JPN

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 4th 3 2 9
2 JapanJapan Japan 1 3 5 9
3 SwedenSweden Sweden 1 0 0 1
3 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 1 0 0 1
5 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 0.5 2 2.5
6th Romania 1965Romania Romania 0 0.5 0 0.5
7th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 0 0 1 1
7th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1
7th Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 0 1 1
Total 7th 7th 12th 26

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine 1970/19, edition Süd-West, page 11
  2. ↑ DTS magazine 1971/11 page 11
  3. ↑ a b Austrian Table Tennis Show 1971/01 (accessed on March 14, 2011; PDF file; 4.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1971/02 (accessed December 18, 2018)