1956 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from April 2 to April 11, 1956. ^[1]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda	Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský	China Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Tsen Huai-Kuang Wang Chuanyao Yang Jai-Hua
			Romania Matei Gantner Tiberiu Harasztosi Paul Pesch Mircea Popescu Toma Reiter
Corbillon Cup Women's Team	Romania Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	England Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Jill Rook	Japan Fujie Eguchi Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka Kiiko Watanabe

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Ichiro Ogimura	Toshiaki Tanaka	Yoshio Tomita
			Akio Nohira
Women's singles	Tomie Okawa	Kiiko Watanabe	Fujie Eguchi
			Ella Zeller
Men's doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek	Václav Tereba Ludvik Vyhnanovsky
			Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda
Women's doubles	Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe	Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka
			Ann Haydon Diane Rowe
Mixed doubles	Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger	Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon	Motoo Fujii Yoshiko Tanaka
			Toma Reiter Ella Zeller

References

1. ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results" . Retrieved December 26, 2025.

External links

• ITTF Museum