The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Johanneshovs Isstadion[1] in Stockholm from April 11 to April 21, 1967.[2][3]

During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism' and were denied places at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships and 1969 World Table Tennis Championships. Players such as Jung Kuo-tuan were persecuted and he committed suicide in 1968. Had China competed in those championships and not lost the impetus gained in the previous decade they would surely have continued to dominate the World Championships.[4][5]

Medalists

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team
 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Hajime Kagimoto
Satoru Kawahara
Koji Kimura
Mitsuru Kono
 North Korea
Jung Ryang-Woong
Kang Neung-Hwa
Kim Chang-Ho
Kim Jung-Sam
Pak Sin Il
 Sweden
Hans Alsér
Carl-Johan Bernhardt
Christer Johansson
Kjell Johansson
Bo Persson
Corbillon Cup
Women's team
 Japan
Naoko Fukatsu
Saeko Hirota
Sachiko Morisawa
Noriko Yamanaka
 Soviet Union
Laima Balaišytė
Svetlana Grinberg
Signe Paisjärv
Zoja Rudnova
 Hungary
Erzsebet Jurik
Beatrix Kisházi
Éva Kóczián
Sarolta Lukacs

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Japan Mitsuru Kono West Germany Eberhard Schöler
Japan Koji Kimura
Women's singles Japan Sachiko Morisawa Japan Naoko Fukazu Japan Noriko Yamanaka
Soviet Union Zoja Rudnova
Men's doubles Sweden Hans Alsér
Sweden Kjell Johansson
Soviet Union Anatoly Amelin
Soviet Union Stanislav Gomozkov
Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Japan Mitsuru Kono
Czechoslovakia Vladimir Miko
Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Staněk
Women's doubles Japan Saeko Hirota
Japan Sachiko Morisawa
Japan Naoko Fukazu
Japan Noriko Yamanaka
Soviet Union Svetlana Grinberg
Soviet Union Zoja Rudnova
Hungary Erzsebet Jurik
Hungary Éva Kóczián
Mixed doubles Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Japan Noriko Yamanaka
Japan Koji Kimura
Japan Naoko Fukazu
Romania Dorin Giurgiuca
Romania Maria Alexandru
Soviet Union Anatoly Amelin
Soviet Union Zoja Rudnova

References

  1. "Table Tennis News, May 1967" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  2. "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  4. "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
  5. Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118133.
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