1959 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund from March 27 to April 5, 1959. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Japan Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura	Hungary Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc Sidó	China Chiang Yung-Ning Rong Guotuan Wang Chuanyao Xu Yinsheng Yang Jai-Hua
			South Vietnam Lê Văn Tiết Mai Văn Hòa Trần Cảnh Được Trần Văn Liễu
Corbillon Cup Women's Team	Japan Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	South Korea Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyung-ja Hwang Yool-ja Lee Chong-Hi	China Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying Ye Peiqiong

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Rong Guotuan	Ferenc Sidó	Richard Miles
			Ichiro Ogimura
Women's Singles	Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Fujie Eguchi	Qiu Zhonghui
			Éva Kóczián
Men's doubles	Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura	Ladislav Štípek Ludvik Vyhnanovsky	Zoltán Berczik László Földy
			Hans Alsér Ake Rakell
Women's doubles	Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Ann Haydon Diane Rowe
			Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying
Mixed doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi	Teruo Murakami Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Wang Chuanyao Sun Meiying
			Zoltán Berczik Gizi Lantos-Farkas

References

1. ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results" . Retrieved December 26, 2025.
2. "1959 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-04-24.

External links

• ITTF Museum