1936 World Table Tennis Championships Explained

The 1936 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from March 12 to March 18, 1936.^[1] ^[2]

The championships were criticised for the bad management and poor tables.^[3] The Lucerna Palace arena (a 4,000-seat, underground concert hall) conditions were also described as chaos.^[4]

Medalists

Team

Swaythling Cup Men's team		Viktor Vladone Marin Vasile-Goldberger Farkas Paneth	Stanislav Kolář Bohumil Váňa Miloslav Hamr Václav Tereba František Hanec Pivec
			Michel Haguenauer Charles Dubouillé Raoul Bedoc Daniel Guérin Paul Wolschoefer
			Viktor Barna Miklós Szabados Laszlo Bellak István Kelen Tibor Házi
			Alojzy Ehrlich Samuel Schieff Shimcha Finkelstein Jezierski
Corbillon Cup Women's team	Czechoslovakia Marie Kettnerová Gertrude Kleinová Marie Šmídová Věra Votrubcová		Not awarded, as there was a tie for silver.

Individual

Men's Singles	Stanislav Kolář	Alojzy Ehrlich	Ferenc Soos
			Richard Bergmann
Women's Singles	Ruth Aarons	Astrid Krebsbach	Marie Kettnerová
			Marie Šmídová
Men's Doubles	Robert Blattner James McClure	Stanislav Kolář Okter Petrisek	Tibor Házi Ferenc Soos
			Karel Fleischner Adolf Šlár
Women's Doubles	Marie Kettnerová Marie Šmídová	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová	Ruth Aarons Jessie Purves
			Magda Gál Mária Mednyánszky
Mixed Doubles	Miloslav Hamr Gertrude Kleinová	István Kelen Mária Mednyánszky	Helmut Ullrich Annemarie Schulz
			Stanislav Kolář Marie Šmídová

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 .
Web site: World Championships at Prague. Table Tennis England. 2018-03-27. 2020-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925141814/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1935-36/tt_issue5.pdf. dead.
Web site: U.S. Ties For Second in Prague Corbillon Cup Pla. Team USA. 2018-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20180929000157/https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/History/History-of-USATT/Volume-I/Chapter-14. 2018-09-29. dead.