1939 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939.[1][2]

World Table Tennis Championships
Singles   Men   Women
Doubles   Men   Women   Mixed
Team   Men   Women
   Previous    1938     Next    1947

Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing.[3] Viktor Barna and Richard Bergmann played under the England flag for the first time.

Medalists

Team
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's team		  Czechoslovakia
Miloslav Hamr
Rudolf Karlecek
Václav Tereba
Bohumil Váňa		  Yugoslavia
Žarko Dolinar
Tibor Harangozo
Adolf Herskovic
Ladislav Hexner
Max Marinko		  England
Ernest Bubley
Ken Hyde
Hyman Lurie
Ken Stanley
Arthur Wilmott
Corbillon Cup
Women's team		  Germany
Hilde Bussmann
Gertrude Pritzi		  Czechoslovakia
Vlasta Depetrisová
Marie Kettnerová
Věra Votrubcová		  Romania
Angelica Adelstein
Sári Kolozsvári

Individual
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Singles Richard Bergmann Alojzy Ehrlich Bohumil Váňa
Žarko Dolinar
Women's singles Vlasta Depetrisová Gertrude Pritzi Samiha Naili
Marie Kettnerová
Men's Doubles Viktor Barna
Richard Bergmann		 Miloslav Hamr
Josef Tartakower		 Ken Hyde
Hyman Lurie
Raoul Bedoc
Michel Haguenauer
Women's Doubles Hilde Bussmann
Gertrude Pritzi		 Angelica Adelstein
Sári Kolozsvári		 Vlasta Depetrisová
Věra Votrubcová
Marie Kettnerová
Samiha Naili
Mixed Doubles Bohumil Váňa
Věra Votrubcová		 Václav Tereba
Marie Kettnerová		 Marcel Geargoura
Hilde Bussmann
Mansour Helmy
Gertrude Pritzi

References
  1. "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. "USA team - Abe Berenbaum". team USA.
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