1926 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926.^[1]^[2]

The championships were originally held as the European Championships which was the same year that the International Table Tennis Federation was formed. It was retrospectively designated as the first World Championships.^[3]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team Swaythling Cup details	Hungary Roland Jacobi Béla von Kehrling Zoltán Mechlovits Daniel Pecsi	Austria Paul Flussmann Eduard Freudenheim Munio Pillinger	England Charles Allwright Bernard Bernstein Percival Bromfield Frank Burls James Thompson
Men's team Swaythling Cup details		Austria Paul Flussmann Eduard Freudenheim Munio Pillinger	India Athar-Ali Fyzee Hassan Ali Fyzee A.M. Peermahomed B.C. Singh S.R.G. Suppiah

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Roland Jacobi	Zoltán Mechlovits	Munio Pillinger
Men's singles details	Roland Jacobi	Zoltán Mechlovits	S.R.G. Suppiah
Women's singles details	Mária Mednyánszky	Doris Gubbins	Anastasia Flussmann
Women's singles details	Mária Mednyánszky	Doris Gubbins	Winifred Land
Men's doubles details	Roland Jacobi Daniel Pecsi	Zoltán Mechlovits Béla von Kehrling	Paul Flussmann Munio Pillinger
Men's doubles details	Roland Jacobi Daniel Pecsi	Zoltán Mechlovits Béla von Kehrling	Cyril Mossford Hedley Penny
Mixed doubles details	Zoltán Mechlovits Mária Mednyánszky	Roland Jacobi Linda Gleeson	Eduard Freudenheim Gertrude Wildam
Mixed doubles details	Zoltán Mechlovits Mária Mednyánszky	Roland Jacobi Linda Gleeson	H.A. Bennett Winifred Land

References

^ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 310. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.

External links

ITTF Museum

[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.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 310. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.

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