1971 World Table Tennis
Championships
Events
Singlesmenwomen
Doublesmenwomenmixed
Teammenwomen

The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships (31st) were held in Nagoya from March 28 to April 7, 1971.[1] The Chinese players returned following a lengthy absence.[2][3]

The nations represented were Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People's Republic of China, England, West Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Romania, the Soviet Union, Sweden and Yugoslavia.

Medalists

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team 		 China
Li Furong
Li Jingguang
Liang Geliang
Xi Enting
Zhuang Zedong 		 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Tokio Tasaka 		 Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Milivoj Karakašević
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek
Corbillon Cup
Women's team 		 Japan
Yasuko Konno
Toshiko Kowada
Emiko Ohba
Yukie Ohzeki 		 China
Li Li
Lin Huiqing
Lin Meiqun
Zheng Minzhi 		 South Korea
Choi Jung-Sook
Chung Hyun-sook
Lee Ailesa
Na In-Sook

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Japan Shigeo Itoh China Xi Enting
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Šurbek
Women's singles China Lin Huiqing China Zheng Minzhi Czechoslovakia Ilona Vostova
China Li Li
Men's doubles Hungary István Jónyer
Hungary Tibor Klampár 		China Liang Geliang
China Zhuang Zedong 		Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Japan Tokio Tasaka
Japan Katsuyuki Abe
Japan Yujiro Imano
Women's doubles China Lin Huiqing
China Zheng Minzhi 		Japan Mieko Hirano
Japan Reiko Sakamoto 		Japan Miho Hamada
Japan Yukie Ohzeki
Japan Yukiko Kawamorita
Japan Setsuko Kobori
Mixed doubles China Zhang Xielin
China Lin Huiqing 		Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Antun Stipančić
Romania Maria Alexandru 		West Germany Eberhard Schöler
West Germany Diane Schöler
Japan Tokuyasu Nishii
Japan Mieko Fukuno

See also

References

  1. ^ ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results". Retrieved December 26, 2025.
  2. ^ "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
  3. ^ Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118133.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_World_Table_Tennis_Championships