1971 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City Nagoya
Country JPN
Held 28 March – 7 April 1971
Competitors 44
Countries 10

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 4
Doubles Men Medal 8 3
Team Men Medal 15 3
Singles Women Medal 4 2
Doubles Women Medal 8 2
Team Women Medal 12 3
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 6

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 China CHN 4 3 2 9
2 Japan JPN 1 3 5 9
3 Hungary HUN 1 0 0 1
= Sweden SWE 1 0 0 1
5 Mixed team MIX 0 1 0 1
6 Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 2 2
7 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 0 1 1
= Germany GER 0 0 1 1
= South Korea KOR 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Stellan Bengtsson SWE Shigeo Ito JPN Dragutin Šurbek
Xi Enting
YUG
CHN
Doubles, Men István Jónyer / Tibor Klampár HUN Liang Geliang / Zhuang Zedong CHN Katsuyuki Abe / Yujiro Imano
Nobuhiko Hasegawa / Tokio Tasaka
JPN
JPN
Team, Men China CHN Japan JPN Yugoslavia YUG
Doubles, Mixed Zhang Xielin / Lin Huiqing CHN Antun Stipančić / Maria Alexandru MIX Tokuyasu Nishii / Mieko Fukuno
Eberhard Schöler / Diane Schöler
JPN
GER
Singles, Women Lin Huiqing CHN Zheng Minzhi CHN Li Li
Ilona Voštová
CHN
TCH
Doubles, Women Lin Huiqing / Zheng Minzhi CHN Mieko Hirano / Reiko Sakamoto JPN Miho Hamada / Yukie Ozeki
Yukiko Kawamorita / Setsuko Kobori
JPN
JPN
Team, Women Japan JPN China CHN South Korea KOR