Table tennis world championship 1985
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | 28.3. - 7.4.1985 | |||
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 Gothenburg
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| winner | ||||
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| Single (♂) |
 Jiang Jialiang
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| Single (♀) |
Cao Yanhua
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| Double (♂) |
Mikael Appelgren Ulf Carlsson
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| Double (♀) |
Dai Lili Geng Lijuan
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Cai Zhenhua Cao Yanhua
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| Team (♂) |
People's Republic of China
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| Team (♀) |
People's Republic of China
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The 38th table tennis world championship took place from March 28th to April 7th 1985 in Gothenburg (Sweden) in the multi-purpose hall Scandinavium.
Mikael Appelgren / Ulf Carlsson ensured with their final victory against the Czechoslovak players Jindřich Panský / Milan Orlowski that at least one title stayed in Sweden and in Europe. All other titles went to China. Even the Swedish men's team could not use their home advantage to defeat the Chinese team.
Competition mode in team competition
As in the previous World Cup, there were two “Category 1 groups” with 8 teams each, plus two “Category 2 groups” with 8 teams each. The teams in category 1 played for places 1 to 16, the teams in category 2 for places 17 to 32.
Cutting off the Germans
Team competition men
At the previous World Cup in 1983 , the German team was relegated from Category 1. She therefore had to compete in a category 2 group. The best possible placement was therefore 17th.
Charles Roesch was the trainer . He had to survive some discussions that had taken place in the run-up to the non-nomination of Peter Stellwag .
In the group games, Germany came after victories against Belgium (5: 0), Switzerland (5: 1), Pakistan (5: 2), Scotland (5: 1), Netherlands (5: 1), Finland (5: 0) and Norway (5: 0) and a defeat against Taiwan (2: 5) in second place. In the second round, she beat the first place in the parallel group from Category 2 USSR with 5: 4. The "final" against Taiwan was won just under 5: 4. Thus, the German men's team achieved the optimal place 17.
Team competition women
Istvan Korpa was the women's trainer . He was confronted with the problem that Kirsten Krüger had canceled participation shortly before the World Cup and Susanne Wenzel now saw herself under the pressure as a leading player, which she had not been able to cope with for a long time.
In the group matches in Category 1, the team lost all matches: Netherlands 0-3, CSSR 0-3, France 1-3, Japan 0-3, Hong Kong 0-3, North Korea 0-3 and Romania 0-3. With that she finished last. In the second round she surprisingly won against Yugoslavia, the penultimate in the parallel group, 3-2. The following game for 13th place was lost against Hong Kong with 1: 3. Thus, the German women's team came 14th.
Men's singles
Jörg Roßkopf convinced at his first World Cup. He survived the qualifying round when he won after a fight without a fight (the player Freile from Ecuador was not started) against the Japanese Takehiro Watanabe and the Canadian Eddi Lo. After further victories over the American Sean O'Neill and the Israeli Dror Pollak, he retired from Hong Kong against later third Lo Chuen Tsung .
Ralf Wosik got just as far . He qualified by beating Harald layer (Austria) and Tah Seng Peong (Malaysia) for the main rounds. Here he won against Morten Gustavsen (Norway) and the 1984 European champion Ulf Bengtsson (Sweden). In the third round he lost to Chen Xinhua from China.
Engelbert Hüging failed in the qualification against the Englishman Skylet Andrew .
Georg Böhm and Wilfried Lieck did not have to compete in the qualifying round. Both failed in the first round, Böhm against the Finn Jarmo Jokinen and Lieck against Jindřich Panský (CSR).
Men's doubles
Engelbert Hüging teamed up with the Austrian Dietmar Palmi ; he came furthest from all Germans in the double competition. In the qualifying round they won against Cho Jong Ho / Hong Sun II (North Korea), Alain Bourbonnais / Bao Hguyen (Canada) and the Indians Sujay Ghorpade / Chandramouli Vaidyanathan. Then they mastered the first two rounds against Jose Maria Pales Pon / Hesham Caymel Marin Ismail (Spain) and Ivan Stojanov / Stefan Stefanov (Bulgaria). In round 3 they had no chance against the Chinese Wang Huiyuan / Chen Longcan .
Lieck / Wosik prevailed in the qualifying round against Richard Seemiller / Brian Masters (USA) and Alan Griffiths / Mark Thomas (Wales). They also survived the first round against the Englishmen Carl Prean / Skylet Andrew and then eliminated against the South Koreans Ahn Jae-hyung / Lee Jung Hak.
Böhm / Roßkopf did not have to compete in the qualifying round, but they lost in round 1 against the Swedes Stellan Bengtsson / Jonas Berner.
Ladies singles
The furthest, namely up to the 4th round, brought Olga Nemes . After victories against Vanja Staleva (Bulgaria), Mirjam Kloppenburg (Netherlands) and Marie Hrachová (CSR), she was beaten by the North Korean Pang Chung Dok.
Susanne Wenzel defeated Yue Kam Kai (Hong Kong) and then lost - despite the 18:12 lead in the decisive set - against Alice Pelikanova (CSR). Also in the 2nd round, Anke Olschewski and Annette Greisinger were eliminated. Olschewski first defeated Goh Shwu Fan (Malaysia) and then lost to Han Hye Song (North Korea), Greisinger failed after winning against Licia Vignola (Italy) to the Romanian Maria Alboiu .
Ladies doubles
All German women's doubles were eliminated with the first match. Olschewski / Wenzel lost to Tomoko Shimonaga / Miki Kitsukawa (Japan), Greisinger / Nemes to Fliura Bulatowa / Raisa Timofeeva (URS).
Mixed
Olga Nemes survived the qualifying round with her partner Jörgen Persson , as they won against Chandramouli Vaidyanathan / Mona Lisa Barua (India). In the main round they were eliminated against Xie Saike / Geng Lijuan (China). Wosik / Olschewski , who prevailed against Yves Maas / Carine Risch (Luxembourg), but were then beaten by Andrei Masunow (RUS) / Narine Antonyan (Armenia), came just as far . Roßkopf / Greisinger lost in the qualifying round against Giovanni Bisi / Giorgia Zampini (Italy). Böhm / Wenzel did not have to go to the qualifying round. In round 1 they defeated Stefan Söderberg / Monica Portin (Finland), then it was over against Fan Changmao / Jiao Zhimin (China).
useful information
- Taiwan - officially Chinese Taipei - is taking part in a world championship for the first time. The approval of China makes this possible.
- As the most successful team players of the tournament, Andrzej Grubba (Poland) and Li Bun-hui (North Korea) received the JOOLA Trophy .
- Desmond Douglas receives the Richard Bergmann Fair Play Award from the SCI because he corrected a decision of the referee in the game against Korean Kim Song-hui in the fifth set at 16:17 when the referee overlooked a corner ball from the Korean. Douglas lost that match.
- The Chinese Cao Yanhua receives the Victor Barna Prize from the SCI .
- At the ITTF Congress, which was taking place at the same time, it was decided that the teams at future World Championships would no longer be classified according to the category system. Instead, the teams should be divided into 16 groups. There are no ascents or descents, instead a ranking list is kept.
- The ITTF Congress awards the 1989 World Championships to Germany.
- The Swedish Post issued two postage stamps for the World Cup on March 14, 1985 (Michel catalog no. 1326-1327) on which the table tennis players Jan Ove Waldner and Cai Zhenhua are depicted. There was also a first day special cancellation and a special cancellation from Gothenburg.
Results
The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:
- Women: Olga Nemes (banned from working in the team until November 1985 because of her emigration from Romania)
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
People's Republic of China
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6th | 4th | 9 | 19th |
| 2 |
Sweden
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1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 |
 Czechoslovakia
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |
 North Korea
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |
 Poland
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 |
 South Korea
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Hong Kong
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th | |
philately
- The Swedish Post issued two postage stamps for the World Cup on March 14, 1985 (Michel catalog no. 1326-1327) on which the table tennis players Jan Ove Waldner and Cai Zhenhua are depicted. There was also a first day special cancellation and a special cancellation from Gothenburg.
literature
- Journal DTS 1985/5 pp. 18-45