1948 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City London
Country GBR
Held 4 – 11 February 1948
Competitors 44
Countries 9

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 3
Doubles Men Medal 8 5
Team Men Medal 19 4
Singles Women Medal 4 4
Doubles Women Medal 8 4
Team Women Medal 15 4
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 6

Medal table

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

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Richard Bergmann ENG Bohumil Váňa TCH Guy Amouretti
Ivan Andreadis
FRA
TCH
Doubles, Men Ladislav Štípek / Bohumil Váňa TCH Adrian Haydon / Ferenc Soós MIX Viktor Barna / Richard Bergmann
Heinrich Bednar / Herbert Wunsch
ENG
AUT
Team, Men Czechoslovakia TCH France FRA Austria
United States
AUT
USA
Doubles, Mixed Richard Miles / Thelma Thall USA Bohumil Váňa / Vlasta Pokorna TCH Richard Bergmann / Dóra Beregi
Ferenc Sidó / Angelica Rozeanu
ENG
MIX
Singles, Women Gizella Farkas HUN Vera Dace-Thomas ENG Vlasta Pokorna
Angelica Rozeanu
TCH
ROU
Doubles, Women Margaret Franks / Vera Dace-Thomas ENG Dóra Beregi / Helen Elliot MIX Audrey Fowler / Irene Lentle
Leah Thall / Thelma Thall
ENG
USA
Team, Women England ENG Hungary HUN Romania
Czechoslovakia
ROU
TCH