Richard Bergmann was an Austrian and British international table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total. He is considered to be one of the greatest players in history, only Viktor Barna has won more World Championship gold medals in singles.
Hans Alsér was a Swedish international table tennis player and later the head coach of West German (1971–1974) and Swedish (1974–1977) national teams. His nickname, Hasse, was often used in media.
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently held in odd numbered years. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even numbered years.
Shigeo Itoh is a male former table tennis player from Japan.
Jacques Secrétin was a French international table tennis player. He was selected for the French national team at the age of 13 and became one of the most successful table tennis players in French history. In a 26-year career Secrétin was singles champion of France 17 times and European single champion in 1976. He won the gold medal in mixed doubles at the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships in Birmingham, England. Outside of competitions he formed a show with Vincent Purkart that demonstrated table tennis tricks and exhibitions, which made more than 4,000 performances. Secrétin remained an active veterans player until his death.
Mitsuru Kohno is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Toshiaki Tanaka was a Japanese international table tennis player.
Milan Orlowski is a male former international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
Alexey Smirnov is a male table tennis player from Russia. Since 2003 he won several medals in doubles events in the Table Tennis European Championships. He also won the gold medal at the Europe Top-12 in 2005 at Rennes.
Xi Enting was a male table tennis player from China.
Seiji Ono is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Lajos Leopold Dávid is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary.
Ferenc Soos is a male former international table tennis player from Hungary.
Yoshio Tomita is a male former international table tennis player from Japan.
The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles was the 34th edition of the women's singles championship. Pak Yung-sun defeated Chang Li in the final by three sets to nil, to win the title.
Huang Liang was a male Chinese international table tennis player.
István Boros was a male Hungarian international table tennis player.
Hans Hartinger was a male Austrian international table tennis player.
Václav Tereba (1918-1990), was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player.
Kenji Kasai is a former male Japanese international table tennis player.
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