1971 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships (31st) were held in Nagoya from March 28 to April 7, 1971. ^[1] The Chinese players returned following a lengthy absence. ^{[2] [3]}

The nations represented were Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People's Republic of China, England, West Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Romania, the Soviet Union, Sweden and Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	China Li Furong Li Jingguang Liang Geliang Xi Enting Zhuang Zedong	Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tetsuo Inoue Shigeo Itoh Mitsuru Kono Tokio Tasaka	Yugoslavia Zlatko Cordas Milivoj Karakašević Istvan Korpa Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek
Corbillon Cup Women's team	Japan Yasuko Konno Toshiko Kowada Emiko Ohba Yukie Ohzeki	China Li Li Lin Huiqing Lin Meiqun Zheng Minzhi	South Korea Choi Jung-Sook Chung Hyun-sook Lee Ailesa Na In-Sook

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Stellan Bengtsson	Shigeo Itoh	Xi Enting
			Dragutin Šurbek
Women's singles	Lin Huiqing	Zheng Minzhi	Ilona Vostova
			Li Li
Men's doubles	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Liang Geliang Zhuang Zedong	Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tokio Tasaka
			Katsuyuki Abe Yujiro Imano
Women's doubles	Lin Huiqing Zheng Minzhi	Mieko Hirano Reiko Sakamoto	Miho Hamada Yukie Ohzeki
			Yukiko Kawamorita Setsuko Kobori
Mixed doubles	Zhang Xielin Lin Huiqing	Antun Stipančić Maria Alexandru	Eberhard Schöler Diane Schöler
			Tokuyasu Nishii Mieko Fukuno

See also

• Ping-pong diplomacy

References

1. ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results" . Retrieved December 26, 2025.
2. "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
3. Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9780230118133.

External links

• ITTF Museum