1947 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City Paris
Country FRA
Held 25 February – 7 March 1947
Competitors 45
Countries 8

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 4
Doubles Men Medal 8 2
Team Men Medal 19 4
Singles Women Medal 4 3
Doubles Women Medal 8 5
Team Women Medal 16 4
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 4

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Czechoslovakia TCH 3 1 2 6
2 Hungary HUN 2 2 0 4
3 England ENG 1 2 4 7
4 Mixed team MIX 1 0 0 1
5 United States USA 0 2 4 6
6 Austria AUT 0 0 2 2
7 Belgium BEL 0 0 1 1
= France FRA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Bohumil Váňa TCH Ferenc Sidó HUN John Leach
Louis Pagliaro
ENG
USA
Doubles, Men Adolf Šlár / Bohumil Váňa TCH Jack Carrington / John Leach ENG Viktor Barna / Adrian Haydon
Ladislav Štípek / Václav Tereba
ENG
TCH
Team, Men Czechoslovakia TCH United States USA Austria
France
AUT
FRA
Doubles, Mixed Ferenc Soós / Gizella Farkas HUN Adolf Šlár / Vlasta Depetrisová TCH Viktor Barna / Margaret Franks
William Holzrichter / Davida Hawthorn
ENG
USA
Singles, Women Gizella Farkas HUN Elizabeth Blackbourn ENG Vera Dace
Gertrude Pritzi
ENG
AUT
Doubles, Women Gizella Farkas / Gertrude Pritzi MIX Mae Clouther / Reba Monness USA Mary Detournay / Josée Wouters
Davida Hawthorn / Leah Thall
BEL
USA
Team, Women England ENG Hungary HUN Czechoslovakia
United States
TCH
USA