1967 World Table Tennis Championships Explained

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

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

Individual

Men's singles	Nobuhiko Hasegawa	Mitsuru Kono	Eberhard Schöler
			Koji Kimura
Women's singles	Sachiko Morisawa	Naoko Fukazu	Noriko Yamanaka
			Zoja Rudnova
Men's doubles	Hans Alsér Kjell Johansson	Anatoly Amelin Stanislav Gomozkov	Nobuhiko Hasegawa Mitsuru Kono
			Vladimir Miko Jaroslav Staněk
Women's doubles	Saeko Hirota Sachiko Morisawa	Naoko Fukazu Noriko Yamanaka	Svetlana Grinberg Zoja Rudnova
			Erzsebet Jurik Éva Kóczián
Mixed doubles	Nobuhiko Hasegawa Noriko Yamanaka	Koji Kimura Naoko Fukazu	Dorin Giurgiuca Maria Alexandru
			Anatoly Amelin Zoja Rudnova

External links

• ITTF Museum

Notes and References

1. Web site: Table Tennis News, May 1967 . 2017-07-24 . 2021-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210108102427/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1966-67/tt_issue207.pdf . dead .
2. 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 .
3. Web site: ITTF Statistics . ittf.com . 13 April 2017 .
4. Web site: In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan. China Daily.
5. Book: Itoh, Mayumi. The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230118133.