1926 World Table Tennis Championships Explained

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

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

Individual

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

External links

ITTF Museum

Notes and References

Web site: World Championships Results . ITTF Museum . 13 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170424073611/http://old.ittf.com/museum/results/WorldChresults.html . 2017-04-24 . dead .
Web site: ITTF Statistics . ittf.com . 13 April 2017 .
Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 310. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.