The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939.[1][2]

Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing.[3] Viktor Barna and Richard Bergmann played under the England flag for the first time.

Medalists

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's team		  Czechoslovakia
Miloslav Hamr
Rudolf Karlecek
Václav Tereba
Bohumil Váňa		  Yugoslavia
Žarko Dolinar
Tibor Harangozo
Adolf Herskovic
Ladislav Hexner
Max Marinko		  England
Ernest Bubley
Ken Hyde
Hyman Lurie
Ken Stanley
Arthur Wilmott
Corbillon Cup
Women's team		  Germany
Hilde Bussmann
Gertrude Pritzi		  Czechoslovakia
Vlasta Depetrisová
Marie Kettnerová
Věra Votrubcová		  Romania
Angelica Adelstein
Sári Kolozsvári

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Singles England Richard Bergmann Poland Alojzy Ehrlich Czechoslovakia Bohumil Váňa
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Žarko Dolinar
Women's singles Czechoslovakia Vlasta Depetrisová Nazi Germany Gertrude Pritzi Egypt Samiha Naili
Czechoslovakia Marie Kettnerová
Men's Doubles England Viktor Barna
England Richard Bergmann		 Czechoslovakia Miloslav Hamr
Luxembourg Josef Tartakower		 England Ken Hyde
England Hyman Lurie
France Raoul Bedoc
France Michel Haguenauer
Women's Doubles Nazi Germany Hilde Bussmann
Nazi Germany Gertrude Pritzi		 Romania Angelica Adelstein
Romania Sári Kolozsvári		 Czechoslovakia Vlasta Depetrisová
Czechoslovakia Věra Votrubcová
Czechoslovakia Marie Kettnerová
Egypt Samiha Naili
Mixed Doubles Czechoslovakia Bohumil Váňa
Czechoslovakia Věra Votrubcová		 Czechoslovakia Václav Tereba
Czechoslovakia Marie Kettnerová		 Egypt Marcel Geargoura
Nazi Germany Hilde Bussmann
Egypt Mansour Helmy
Nazi Germany Gertrude Pritzi

References

  1. ↑ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "USA team - Abe Berenbaum". team USA. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015.
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