The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund from March 27 to April 5, 1959.[1][2][3]

Medalists

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team		  Japan
Nobuya Hoshino
Teruo Murakami
Seiji Narita
Ichiro Ogimura		  Hungary
Zoltán Berczik
Zoltán Bubonyi
László Földy
László Pigniczki
Ferenc Sidó		  China
Chiang Yung-Ning
Rong Guotuan
Wang Chuanyao
Xu Yinsheng
Yang Jai-Hua
 South Vietnam
Lê Văn Tiết
Mai Văn Hòa
Trần Cảnh Được
Trần Văn Liễu
Corbillon Cup
Women's Team		  Japan
Fujie Eguchi
Kimiyo Matsuzaki
Taeko Namba
Kazuko Yamaizumi		  South Korea
Cho Kyung-Cha
Choi Kyung-ja
Hwang Yool-ja
Lee Chong-Hi		  China
Qiu Zhonghui
Sun Meiying
Ye Peiqiong

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Singles China Rong Guotuan Hungary Ferenc Sidó United States Richard Miles
Japan Ichiro Ogimura
Women's Singles Japan Kimiyo Matsuzaki Japan Fujie Eguchi China Qiu Zhonghui
Hungary Éva Kóczián
Men's doubles Japan Teruo Murakami
Japan Ichiro Ogimura		 Czechoslovakia Ladislav Štípek
Czechoslovakia Ludvik Vyhnanovsky		 Hungary Zoltán Berczik
Hungary László Földy
Sweden Hans Alsér
Sweden Ake Rakell
Women's doubles Japan Taeko Namba
Japan Kazuko Yamaizumi		 Japan Fujie Eguchi
Japan Kimiyo Matsuzaki		 England Ann Haydon
England Diane Rowe
China Qiu Zhonghui
China Sun Meiying
Mixed doubles Japan Ichiro Ogimura
Japan Fujie Eguchi		 Japan Teruo Murakami
Japan Kimiyo Matsuzaki		 China Wang Chuanyao
China Sun Meiying
Hungary Zoltán Berczik
Hungary Gizi Lantos-Farkas

References

  1. ↑ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "1959 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
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