1949 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City Stockholm
Country SWE
Held 4 – 10 February 1949
Competitors 36
Countries 9

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 4
Doubles Men Medal 8 5
Team Men Medal 18 4
Singles Women Medal 4 4
Doubles Women Medal 8 5
Team Women Medal 12 4
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 4

Medal table

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

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men John Leach ENG Bohumil Váňa TCH Marty Reisman
Ferenc Soós
USA
HUN
Doubles, Men Ivan Andreadis / František Tokár TCH Ladislav Štípek / Bohumil Váňa TCH Richard Bergmann / Tage Flisberg
Douglas Cartland / Richard Miles
MIX
USA
Team, Men Hungary HUN Czechoslovakia TCH England
United States
ENG
USA
Doubles, Mixed Ferenc Sidó / Gizella Farkas HUN Bohumil Váňa / Květa Hrušková TCH John Leach / Margaret Franks
Marty Reisman / Margaret McLean
ENG
USA
Singles, Women Gizella Farkas HUN Květa Hrušková TCH Gertrude Pritzi
Thelma Thall
AUT
USA
Doubles, Women Helen Elliot / Gizella Farkas MIX Pinkie Barnes / Joan Crosby ENG Eliška Fürstová / Ida Kotátková
Rozsi Kárpáti / Erzsébet Mezei
TCH
HUN
Team, Women United States USA England ENG France FRA