1977 World Table Tennis Championships
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The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Birmingham at the then newly opened National Exhibition Centre, from March 28 to April 7, 1977.
Organisation
During these Championships, players and officials stayed at the Student Accommodation at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, from where coaches took all participants backwards and forwards between here and the NEC daily for the two weeks of the championships. Although run by the ETTA for the ITTF, headed by Mr Maurice Goldstein, Management, Tournament & Coaching Committee members from the BDTTA (Birmingham & District Table Tennis Association) played a major part with six months of preparatory work prior to this event, the first to be held at the NEC. It was also from the BDTTA that many gave freely of their time to help run this championship, through their expertise of running many other local annual table tennis tournaments, such at the 3 star Midlands Open and Birmingham Closed.[1][2]
Results
Team
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Swaythling Cup Men's Team | China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Wang Jun | Japan Tetsuo Inoue Mitsuru Kono Masahiro Maehara Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka | Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Ake Gronlund Kjell Johansson Roger Lagerfeldt Ulf Thorsell |
Corbillon Cup Women's team | China Ge Xinai Zhang Deying Zhang Li Zhu Xiangyun | South Korea Chung Hyun-sook Kim Soon-ok Lee Ailesa Lee Ki Won | North Korea Kim Chang-Ae Li Song Suk Pak Yong-Ok Pak Yung-Sun |
Individual
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles | Mitsuru Kohno | Guo Yuehua | Liang Geliang |
Huang Liang | |||
Women's singles | Pak Yung-Sun | Zhang Li | Ge Xin'ai |
Zhang Deying | |||
Men's doubles | Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang | Huang Liang Lu Yuansheng | Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson |
Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek | |||
Women's doubles | Pak Yong-ok Yang Ying | Zhu Xiangyun Wei Lijie | Zhang Li Ge Xin'ai |
Lee Ki Won Kim Soon-ok | |||
Mixed doubles | Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret | Tokio Tasaka Sachiko Yokota | Li Zhenshi Yan Guili |
Lee Sang-kuk Lee Ki Won |
References
External links
- ITTF Museum