1938 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City London
Country GBR
Held 24 – 29 January 1938
Competitors 36
Countries 6

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 3
Doubles Men Medal 8 4
Team Men Medal 20 4
Singles Women Medal 4 3
Doubles Women Medal 8 3
Team Women Medal 10 3
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 5

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Czechoslovakia TCH 3 2 4 9
2 Austria AUT 1 2 2 5
= Hungary HUN 1 2 2 5
4 United States USA 1 0 2 3
5 Mixed team MIX 1 0 0 1
6 England ENG 0 1 3 4

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Bohumil Váňa TCH Richard Bergmann AUT Viktor Barna
Tibor Házi
HUN
HUN
Doubles, Men James McClure / Sol Schiff USA Viktor Barna / Laszlo Bellak HUN Eric Filby / Hyman Lurie
Stanislav Kolář / Václav Tereba
ENG
TCH
Team, Men Hungary HUN Austria AUT United States
Czechoslovakia
USA
TCH
Doubles, Mixed Laszlo Bellak / Pauline Woodhead MIX Bohumil Váňa / Věra Votrubcová TCH Alfred Liebster / Gertrude Pritzi
Václav Tereba / Marie Kettnerová
AUT
TCH
Singles, Women Gertrude Pritzi AUT Vlasta Depetrisová TCH Betty Henry
Věra Votrubcová
USA
TCH
Doubles, Women Vlasta Depetrisová / Věra Votrubcová TCH Dóra Beregi / Ida Ferenczy HUN Dora Emdin / Margaret Osborne
Phyllis Hodgkinson / Doris Jordan
ENG
ENG
Team, Women Czechoslovakia TCH England ENG Austria AUT