World Table Tennis Championships

World Table Tennis Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Global sports event
Date(s)	Circa April-May
Frequency	Annual
Inaugurated	1926 (1926)

The World Table Tennis 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.

In the earlier days of the tournament, Hungary's men's team was a dominant force, winning the championships 12 times. From the 1960s onwards, China emerged as the new dominant power in this tournament and, with the exception of 1989-2000, when Sweden won four times, China continues to dominate the sport. China's men's team holds a record 18 world team championship titles.

In the 1950s, Japan's women team was a force to be reckoned with winning a total of 8 titles. The Chinese women started their strong grip on the world team championships from the 1970s onwards. They have only lost twice since 1975. China holds 18 women's team titles. Singapore's women team holds the title in 2010.

Trophies

There are 7 different trophies presented to the winners of each event, held by winning associations, and returned for the next world championships.

• Swaythling Cup for Men's Team: donated in 1926 by Lady Baroness Swaythling, mother of the first ITTF President, Ivor Montagu.
• Corbillon Cup for Women's Team: donated in 1933 by Marcel Corbillon, President of the French Table Tennis Association. The German women's team won the Cup in 1939, but the original Cup disappeared during Berlin occupation after World War II. The Corbillon Cup is now a replica made in 1949.
• St. Bride Vase for Men's Singles: donated in 1929 by C.Corti Woodcock, member of the exclusive St. Bride Table Tennis Club in London. After Fred Perry of England won the title in Budapest.
• Geist Prize for Women's Singles: donated in 1931 by Dr. Gaspar Geist, President of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association.
• Iran Cup for Men's Doubles: first presented at the 1947 World Championships by the Shah of Iran.
• W.J. Pope Trophy for Women's Doubles: donated in 1948 by the ITTF Honorary General Secretary W.J. Pope.
• Heydusek Cup for Mixed Doubles: donated in 1948 by Zdenek Heydusek, Secretary of the Czechoslovakia Association.

And the Egypt Cup is presented to the next host of world championships. The Cup was donated by King Farouk of Egypt in 1939, when the championships was held in Cairo, Egypt.

Venues

1926 – London 1928 – Stockholm 1929 – Budapest 1930 – Berlin 1931 – Budapest 1932 – Prague 1933 (January) – Baden 1933 (December) – Paris

1935 – Wembley 1936 – Prague 1937 – Baden 1938 – Wembley 1939 – Cairo 1947 – Paris 1948 – Wembley 1949 – Stockholm

1950 – Budapest 1951 – Vienna 1952 – Bombay 1953 – Bucharest 1954 – Wembley 1955 – Utrecht 1956 – Tokyo 1957 – Stockholm

1959 – Dortmund 1961 – Beijing 1963 – Prague 1965 – Ljubljana 1967 – Stockholm 1969 – Munich 1971 – Nagoya 1973 – Sarajevo

1975 – Calcutta 1977 – Birmingham 1979 – Pyongyang 1981 – Novi Sad 1983 – Tokyo 1985 – Gothenburg 1987 – New Delhi 1989 – Dortmund

1991 – Chiba City 1993 – Gothenburg 1995 – Tianjin 1997 – Manchester 1999 – Eindhoven (Individual) 2000 – Kuala Lumpur (Team) 2001 – Osaka

Beginning in 2003 the International Table Tennis Federation split the World Championships apart into an Individual event and a Team event.

Individual World Championships:

2003 – Paris 2005 – Shanghai 2007 – Zagreb 2009 – Yokohama

2011 – Rotterdam 2013 – Paris 2015 – Suzhou 2017 – Düsseldorf 2019 - Budapest

Team World Championships:

2004 – Doha 2006 – Bremen 2008 – Guangzhou 2010 – Moscow

2012 – Dortmund 2014 – Tokyo 2016 – Kuala Lumpur 2018 – Halmstad

Medal Table (1999-2013) only Individual Events

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See also

• List of table tennis players
• Table Tennis European Championships
• Ping Pong Diplomacy

External links

• ITTF Statistics
• ITTF Museum
• PingPongRuler.com
• Table Tennis Table