1st World Mahjong Championship 2007

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The 1st World Mahjong Championship 2007 was held at the Hong Zhu Shan Hotel in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from November 1 to 5, in 2007. The official name of this event was "2007 The First Mahjong Cultural Exchange Congress and World Mahjong Championship". During the event, the Congress was held.

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Competition

This competition is the official first world championship in Mahjong after World Mahjong Organization was founded in 2006.

Results

The names are ordered as Given name and Surname.

Individual

RankNameNationalityTable PointsMini Points
1Li Li Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 321411
2 Zhangfei Zhang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 301143
3 Minoru Imaeda Flag of Japan.svg Japan 30752
4 Haiting Ni Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 28.51190
5 Bingcheng Zhang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 281247
6 Linghua Jiao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 281134
7 Kazutoshi Iwasawa Flag of Japan.svg Japan 271127
8 Jun Gao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 261118
9 Shufu Huang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 25708
10 Desiree Heemskerk Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 25578

Team

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RankNameNationalityMembersRankTable PointsMini PointsTotal Table PointsTotal Mini Points
1China Shanxi Jiexiu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Shufu Huang10257081003206
Bingcheng Zhang5281247
Linghua Jiao6281134
Quanze Gao1219117
2China Shanghai Zhangjiang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Wenlong Li981175882665
Bo Zhang1621329
Jun Gao8261118
Zhangfei Zhang2301143
3Japan Mahjong Sport Association Osaka Flag of Japan.svg Japan Kazutoshi Iwasawa7271127821763
Kohichi Oda3518330
Kimito Kugimiya3618249
Kōji Idota321957
4Japan Mahjong Sport Association Tokyo Flag of Japan.svg Japan Sugako Suzuki3318531802264
Masato Chiba15221039
Yuri Teduka1424555
Yukari Kugimiya5116139
5China Orient Qinghua Beida Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China     792371
 
 
 

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