Table tennis world championship 1995
 Table tennis world championship
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| date | 1.5. - May 14, 1995 | |||
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 Tianjin
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| Single (♂) |
Kong Linghui
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| Single (♀) |
Deng Yaping
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| Double (♂) |
Wang Tao Lu Lin
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| Double (♀) |
Deng Yaping Qiao Hong
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| Doubles (mixed) |
Wang Tao Liu Wei
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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 43rd table tennis world championship took place from May 1st to May 14th, 1995 in Tianjin (China). The venue was the Tianjin High School. 88 men's and 79 women's teams and a total of 963 athletes from 104 nations were represented.
General
China impressively demonstrates its supremacy. All 7 gold medals remain in the "Middle Kingdom". In the women’s and men’s singles, the Chinese players are among themselves from the semi-finals. Non-Chinese players can only win one silver and three bronze medals in the doubles competitions.
The German teams achieved good results with 5th place (men) and 6th place (women).
Game system of team competitions
The team competitions for women and men were held according to the same system as at the 1993 World Cup .
Cutting off the Germans
Team competition men
The German team first had to qualify in Group B. After victories over the Netherlands (3: 1), England (3: 0), Austria (3: 0), Poland (3: 0) and Hong Kong (3: 0) as well as defeats against Belgium (1: 3) and China ( 0: 3) Germany came in 3rd place and thus reached the quarter-finals. Here you had to admit defeat to Sweden 2: 3. Here won Roßkopf the only team in the competition against Jan-Ove Waldner . In the placement games for places 5 to 8, Germany prevailed against Yugoslavia (3: 0) and Japan (3: 1) and came in fifth.
Roßkopf scored 9: 2 in the team fights, only losing to the Belgian Jean-Michel Saive and the Chinese Ding Song .
Team competition women
The German women competed in Group B. There were four wins against the USA (3: 0), Lithuania (3: 1), Taiwan (3: 2) and England (3: 0), three defeats against Hong Kong (1: 3), Hungary (2: 3) and South Korea (1: 3) opposite. This meant fourth place, which is why you had to qualify for the quarterfinals in an additional game. This was achieved with a 3-0 win against Belgium. In the quarter-finals, the team met eventual world champions China and had no chance with 0: 3. In the placement games for places 5 to 8, Germany won against Hungary (3: 1), but then lost 3: 0 against Sweden. Thus the team reached sixth place.
Men's singles
Jörg Roßkopf reached the round of 16 after wins over Kayode Kadiri (SVE), Andrei Masunow (RUS) and Lin Zhigang (CHN). Here he was defeated by the Russian Vladimir Samsonov in five sentences.
Even Peter Franz reached the knockout stages. He defeated Thierry Cabrera (BEL) and Hiroshi Shibutani (JPN). He lost in three sets against Peter Karlsson (SVE).
Steffen Fetzner survived round 1 against Ferenc Pazsy (HUN), but could not prevail against the Swede Jörgen Persson .
Torben Wosik was already stuck in the qualifying tournament, where he defeated Zhuang Yongxiang (USA) and S. Phanhngoulath (LAO), but lost to Saubana Ayemojuba (NGR).
Richard Prause survived the qualifying tournament after beating Juan Papic Vilca (CHI) and Shahzad Wasim (PAK). The Austrian Ding Yi was then too strong.
Men's doubles
Roßkopf / Fetzner were far from their world championship form of 1989 , but still came the furthest. They beat Petr Korbel / Radek Mrkvicka (CZE) and Kayode Kadiri / Erik Lindh (SWE). The last sixteen was the last stop against Zoran Primorac / Wladimir Samsonow (CRO / RUS).
Peter Franz / Torben Wosik failed in the first round due to the Danish Lars Hauth / Martin Monrad .
Strange things happened to Richard Prause . He wanted to play doubles with the Austrian Ding Yi , but he did not appear when the game started. Thus, the double was eliminated without a fight.
Ladies singles
Olga Nemes (against Alessia Arisi , ITA) and Elke Schall (against Marina Kravchenko , ISR) were eliminated in the first round .
Jie Schöpp reached round two by bye. Here she defeated Lily Yip (USA), then Rika Sato (JAP), before losing to Liu Wei (CHN) in the round of 16 .
Nicole Struse also reached the round of 16 . She also had a bye and then won against Mirjam Hooman (NLD) and Li Ju (CHN). Then she lost just under in the fifth set against Tong Feiming (TPE).
Ladies doubles
The furthest came Schall / Struse , who won against Adriana Simion-Nastase / Mihaela Steff (ROM) and Tatsiana Kostromina / Wiktoryja Paulowitsch (BLR) and then eliminated in the round of 16 after losing to the Chinese Wang Chen / Wu Na .
For Nemes / Schöpp, on the other hand, it was already the end of round 1. They lost to Chen Jing / Chen Jiu Tan (CHN).
Mixed
This World Cup was somewhat tragic for Christina Fischer . She was only used in mixed and lost alongside Richard Prause in the qualifying round against Man Li / Kim Bong Chul (CHN / KOR).
Up came in round 3 Schoepp with the Greeks Daniel Cioca (victories against Linda Mesan / TARIC Hodzic (BIH) and Namal Gunasekera / Dushmanta Chamara Fernando (SRI), losing to Wang Chen / Xiong Ke (CHN)) and sound / Torben Wosik ( Victories against Hana Placha / Josef Plachý (CZE) and Tawny Ai Banh Thua / Zhuang Yongxiang (USA), defeat against Yang Ying / Lin Zhigang (TPE)).
Struse / Franz played up to the quarter-finals . They won against Kerri Tepper / Dennis Makaling (AUS), Katalina Vitceva / Ivan Stojanov (BUL), Chen Jing / Wu Wen Chia (TPE) and Kim Boon Sik / Park Sang Joon (KOR). Then they lost in three sets against the China mixed Liu Wei / Wang Tao , which later won the title.
ITTF Congress
The congress of the TT world association ITTF took place parallel to the games . The following resolutions were passed here:
- The Swede Lollo Hammarlund was elected ITTF President. The choice was necessary because his predecessor Ichirō Ogimura had died in 1994.
- The speed gluing ban has been lifted and ITTF approved glues can be used.
- At the next World Cup, the women should no longer hold the team competition according to the Corbillon Cup game system. Instead, they should - just like the men - play according to the Swaythling Cup system.
- The 1999 World Cup is to take place in Belgrade. This decision was controversial because of the war in Yugoslavia .
useful information
- The World Cup was initially awarded to Belgrade. Because of the war in Yugoslavia, she was moved to China in 1992.
- Jie Schöpp won the team fight against Taiwan against Tsui Hsiu Li in the second set 21-0. Tsui Hsiu Li was ranked 75th in the world at the time.
- As the most successful team players of the tournament, Jan-Ove Waldner (Sweden) and Deng Yaping (China) received the JOOLA Trophy and 5,000 marks.
- The Frenchman Jean-Philippe Gatien receives the Richard Bergmann Fair Play Prize from the SCI .
- The Chinese Deng Yaping receives the Victor Barna Prize from the SCI .
- South Korean Kim Taek-soo was disqualified after beating Wang Tao in the quarter-finals because an examination of his racket revealed that he had used prohibited substances in speed glueing . Wang Tao got through to the next round despite the defeat.
- Liu Wei / Wang Tao became world champions in mixed for the third time in a row. No one has managed this hat trick before.
- The 23-time Italian champion Massimo Costantini (he was 37 years old in 1995) has participated in all 11 world championships (and also in all 11 European championships) since 1975.
- On May 1, 1995, the People's Republic of China issued two postage stamps (Michel catalog no. 2604-2605) and a block of stamps (Michel catalog no. Block 73) for this world championship. There were also special postmarks in Tianjin and other Chinese cities.
Results
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1 |
People's Republic of China
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7th | 4th | 6th | 17th |
| 2 |
 South Korea
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 |
 Sweden
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0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4th |
 Croatia
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0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Belarus
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0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 6th |
 Hungary
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6th |
 France
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} Hong Kong
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7th | 7th | 12 | 26th | |