Table tennis world championship 1991
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | 24.4. - 6.5.1991 | |||
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 Chiba
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| winner | ||||
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| Single (♂) |
 Jörgen Persson
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| Single (♀) |
 Deng Yaping
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| Double (♂) |
Peter Karlsson Thomas von Scheele
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| Double (♀) |
Chen Zihe Gao Jun
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Wang Tao Liu Wei
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| Team (♂) |
Sweden
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| Team (♀) | Total korea | |||
The 41st table tennis world championship took place from April 24th to May 6th 1991 in Chiba ( Japan ) in the halls of the Nippon Convention Center .
General
Sweden dominates the men's competitions at this World Cup. The men's team can defend the title they won in Dortmund in Japan and become world champions for the third time. Yugoslavia wins the silver medal. Places 1 to 5 are occupied by European teams, China only comes in 7th place. The women's team in China will not become world champions either; after winning the title eight times in a row, this time she has to be content with silver.
In the men's singles, Jörgen Persson returned the favor to Jan-Ove Waldner for the final defeat in Dortmund in 1989 and became world champion. In the men's doubles, Jörgen Persson wins a bronze medal - another Swedish double becomes world champion in Peter Karlsson / Thomas von Scheele .
The German men's team occupies a good 5th place - the German women reach 13th place.
Game system of team competitions
The game system for the men's and women's team competitions has been changed again.
The teams are classified into "first place 16" and "rest" on the basis of their placement at the last World Cup .
The first 16 at the last World Cup play in the preliminary round in two groups of eight, A and B, everyone against everyone. The first six teams of groups A and B reach the round of 16, so there are 12 participants in the round of 16.
The remaining teams, which did not make it into the first 16 in 1989, form eight further groups of eight, where according to the system everyone is played against everyone. The eight winners then play a game among themselves, the four winners qualify for the round of 16. The four losers, together with the teams that do not qualify in the group games, fight for places 17 and below.
The system was criticized for the fact that the pairing system in the round of 16 is fixed in advance and thus enables tactical considerations, such as deliberate defeats, in order to meet more pleasant opponents in the round of 16.
The individual team fights of the men were carried out according to a modified system in which one player competes in two singles, his two teammates play doubles and one singles together.
Cutting off the Germans
Team competition men
The German team started in preliminary group B. Here they won against the Netherlands, USSR, CSFR, Hungary and France. By contrast, she lost to Poland and China. This was enough for second place.
The fight against China ended with a scandal: China was obviously aiming for a tactical defeat with a view to the round of 16 so as not to be group first. Therefore, Germany - not interested in group victory - stopped this match with their own 2-0 lead and lost 3-2 in this way. Thereupon the world association ITTF excluded the German coach Zlatko Čordaš from the tournament. This was seen as a serious weakening of the German team, but the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) showed full understanding for Cordas' approach.
In the second round, the German team defeated Italy 3-1, but then lost to Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals. This reached 5th place and was two places better than at the previous World Cup in 1989.
Team competition women
The German women's team entered Group D in the preliminary round. Here she finished undefeated in first place with victories against Portugal and Switzerland 3-0 each and a 3-1 against Malaysia. Then they qualified for the round of 16 with a 3-2 win against Belgium, the first in the parallel group. Here they failed 3-1 against the Hungarian team.
In the following placement matches they lost 3-0 to Yugoslavia, but then defeated Denmark 3-1 and Finland 3-0. This meant 13th place, an improvement on 19th place at the previous World Cup in 1989.
Men's singles
After victories over Kim Guk Choi (Korea), Chu Kyo Sung (Korea) and Wei Qingguang (China), Roßkopf reached the round of 16, where he failed 3-0 against eventual vice world champion Waldner (Sweden).
Fetzner defeated Błaszczyk and Kreanga (Greece) before losing to Kim Taek-soo (Korea). Boehm achieved just as much after victories over Nabeel S. Ai-Magahwi (Saudi Arabia), Horatio Pintea (Canada) and the defeat against the eventual world champion Persson (Sweden).
Torben Wosik was not used in the team fights. In the individual competition he was eliminated in the first round against Skylet Andrew (England). After convincing performances in the team competition, Peter Franz could not prevail against Choi Gyong Sop (Korea) in round 1.
Men's doubles
The defending champions Roßkopf / Fetzner reached the quarter-finals. They won against Lars Hauth / Kim Hogsberg (Denmark), Thierry Cabrera / Frederic Sonnet (Belgium) and Yu Shtentong / Zhang Lei (China). They then lost 3-1 against the Russian brothers Andrei and Dmitri Masunow .
Wosik / Franz defeated Trinko Keen / Casper Mol (Netherlands) and then lost to Wei Qingguang / Xie Chaoje (China). Böhm played with the Yugoslav Zoran Kalinić . They prevailed in the first round against the Cubans Francisco De Arado Armas / Santiago Roque Panton, but not in round 2 against Károly Németh / Sándor Varga (Hungary).
Ladies singles
Schall was the only German lady to reach the second round. In the qualifying games she defeated Aremdariz M. Cabrera (Ecuador), Naseem Nazli (Pakistan) and Petra Fichtinger (Austria). Then she prevailed in round 1 against Mantu Ghosh (India) and finally failed to Hong Cha-ok (Korea).
In the first round, Praedel (against Lisa Lomas , England), Struse (against Galina Melnik , USSR) and Nemes (against Alessia Arisi , Italy) were eliminated. Faltermaier failed in the qualification, where she won against Diana Wiworo (INA) and Benedicte Meyer (Luxembourg), but lost to Oksana Kush (USSR).
Ladies doubles
Faltermaier / Nemes won twice, against Madeleine Armas Nunez / Yolanda Rodriguez Rey (Cuba) and Maxine Joan Goldie / Li Chunli (New Zealand), and thus reached the second round. Here they were eliminated against Xiaoxin Hu / Liu Wei (China).
The other doubles already failed in qualification: Schall / Struse defeated Masayo Kawai / Akiyo Muroshige (Japan), Steffi Fries / Ilona Knecht (Switzerland) and lost to Mulatsih / Diana Wiworo (INA). Praedel won with the Austrian Vera Kottek against Stephanie Evans / Benedicte Meyer (Wales / Luxembourg) and lost against Bai Huei-Yin / Tsui Li (Taiwan).
Mixed
The most successful German mixed was Roßkopf / Struse , which reached the quarter-finals after victories over Tsuneyasu Yamamoto / Yumi Aoike (Japan), David Buck / Natasha Williams (Wales), Atanda Musa / Bose Kaffo (Nigeria) and Zhang Lei / Qio Yungping (China) showed up where it was stopped by Xie Chaojie / Chen Zihe (China).
Franz / Faltermaier made it into the third round by eliminating Issamu Carlos Kawai / Martha Massuda (Brazil) and Frederic Sonnet / Sophie Thirion (Belgium), but then failed because of Lo Chuen Tsung / Chai Po Wa (Hong Kong).
Wosik / Schall were eliminated in Round 2 against Kim Song-hui / Li Bun Hui (Korea); previously they had defeated Allan Bentsen / Pernilla Pettersson (Denmark / Sweden). Fetzner / Nemes came just as far : The 2-0 defeat by Gideon Ng Joe / Mariann Domonkos (Canada) was followed by a 2-0 defeat by Damien Éloi / Sandrine Derrien (France). Böhm / Praedel failed in round 1 to the eventual world champions Wang Tao / Liu Wei (China).
Trainer
The head coach was Eva Jeler , Zlatko Čordaš looked after the men together with Klaus Schmittinger and Dirk Schimmelpfennig the women until his suspension .
useful information
- For the first time since the division of the country, Korea is providing a joint women's and men's team.
- Norway announced the former German champions and current General Secretary of the TT Association Norway Jochen Leiß as a substitute . However, it was not used.
- The game was played with yellow balls on blue tables.
- Chen Xinhua , who was team world champion with China in 1985 , competed for England.
- Zoran Primorac (Croatia) and Hyun Jung-hwa (South Korea) received the JOOLA Trophy as the most successful team players of the tournament .
- Janet Smith from Scotland receives the Richard Bergmann Fair Play Prize from the SCI .
- The Yugoslav Zoran Kalinić and the Chinese Deng Yaping received the Victor Barna Prize from the SCI .
- The referees Erwin Preiß (Karlsruhe) and Willi Dietrich (Wetzlar) were represented from Germany.
Results
The following Germans only took part in the individual competitions:
- Women: Christiane Praedel
| competition | rank | winner |
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| Team men | 1. | Sweden ( Erik Lindh , Peter Karlsson , Jan-Ove Waldner , Mikael Appelgren , Jörgen Persson ) |
| 2. | Yugoslavia ( Zoran Primorac , Robert Smrekar, Ilija Lupulesku , Zoran Kalinić ) | |
| 3. | CSSR (Petr Javurek, Roland Vimi, Tomas Janci, Petr Korbel , Milan German) | |
| 4th | Belgium ( Thierry Cabrera , Jean-Michel Saive , Frederic Sonnet , Philippe Saive ) | |
| 5. | Germany ( Georg Böhm , Steffen Fetzner , Peter Franz , Jörg Roßkopf , Torben Wosik ) | |
| 9. | Austria ( Ding Yi , Dietmar Palmi , Qianli Qian , Werner Schlager , Hannes Seyer ) | |
| 36. | Switzerland (Jan Gurtner, Ivan Jecic, Kurt Muehlethaler, Stefan Renold ) | |
| Team women | 1. | All-Korean team ( Li Bun Hui , Jung Hwa Hyun , Hong Cha-ok , Yu Sun-bok ) |
| 2. | China ( Qiao Hong , Chen Zihe , Deng Yaping , Gao Jun ) | |
| 3. | France ( Wang Xiaoming , Sandrine Derrien, Emmanuelle Coubat , Agnes Le Lannic) | |
| 13. | Germany ( Cornelia Faltermaier , Olga Nemes , Elke Schall , Nicole Struse ) | |
| 29 | Austria ( Petra Fichtinger , Vera Kottek , Elisabeth Maier ) | |
| 46. | Switzerland (Steffi Fries, Ilona Knecht, Pascale Rommerskirchen) | |
| Men's singles | 1. | Jörgen Persson - SWE |
| 2. | Jan-Ove Waldner -SWE | |
| 3. | Kim Taek Soo - COR | |
| 3. | Ma Wenge - CHN | |
| Ladies singles | 1. | Deng Yaping - CHN |
| 2. | Li Bun Hui - PRK | |
| 3. | Chan Tan Lui - HKG | |
| 3. | Qiao Hong - CHN | |
| Men's doubles | 1. | Peter Karlsson / Thomas von Scheele - SWE |
| 2. | Wang Tao / Lu Lin - CHN | |
| 3. | Dmitri Masunow / Andrei Masunow - URS | |
| 3. | Jörgen Persson / Erik Lindh - SWE | |
| Ladies doubles | 1. | Chen Zihe / Gao Jun - CHN |
| 2. | Deng Yaping / Qiao Hong - CHN | |
| 3. | Li Jun / Liu Wie - CHN | |
| 3. | Hu Xiaoxin / Ding Yaping - CHN | |
| Mixed | 1. | Wang Tao / Liu Wei - CHN |
| 2. | Xie Chaojie / Chen Zihe - CHN | |
| 3. | Kalinikos Kreanga - GRE / Otilia Bădescu - ROM | |
| 3. | Song Hui Kim / Li Bun Hui - PRK |
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
People's Republic of China
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3 | 4th | 4th | 11 |
| 2 |
Sweden
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3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 |
 Korea
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1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
| 4th |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |
 Czechoslovakia
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Russia
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Hong Kong
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 |
 France
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 |
 Greece
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0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| 10 |
 Romania
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0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th | |
literature
- World Cup preview: DTS magazine , 1991/4 pp. 12–21
- Team competitions: DTS magazine , 1991/5 pp. 4-14
- Individual competitions: DTS magazine , 1991/6 pp. 40–61