1939 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City Al-Qahira
Country EGY
Held 6 – 11 March 1939
Competitors 30
Countries 10

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 4
Doubles Men Medal 8 5
Team Men Medal 14 3
Singles Women Medal 4 3
Doubles Women Medal 8 5
Team Women Medal 7 3
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 4

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Czechoslovakia TCH 3 2 3 8
2 Germany GER 2 1 0 3
3 England ENG 2 0 2 4
4 Mixed team MIX 0 1 3 4
5 Romania ROU 0 1 1 2
= Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 1 2
7 Poland POL 0 1 0 1
8 Egypt EGY 0 0 1 1
= France FRA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Richard Bergmann ENG Alojzy Ehrlich POL Žarko Dolinar
Bohumil Váňa
YUG
TCH
Doubles, Men Viktor Barna / Richard Bergmann ENG Miloslav Hamr / Josef Tartakower MIX Raoul Bedoc / Michel Haguenauer
Ken Hyde / Hyman Lurie
FRA
ENG
Team, Men Czechoslovakia TCH Yugoslavia YUG England ENG
Doubles, Mixed Bohumil Váňa / Věra Votrubcová TCH Václav Tereba / Marie Kettnerová TCH Marcel Geargoura / Hildegard Bussmann
Mansour Helmy / Gertrude Pritzi
MIX
MIX
Singles, Women Vlasta Depetrisová TCH Gertrude Pritzi GER Marie Kettnerová
Samiha Naili
TCH
EGY
Doubles, Women Hildegard Bussmann / Gertrude Pritzi GER Sari Kolozsvári / Angelica Adelstein ROU Vlasta Depetrisová / Věra Votrubcová
Marie Kettnerová / Samiha Naili
TCH
MIX
Team, Women Germany GER Czechoslovakia TCH Romania ROU