1973 World Table Tennis Championships

Host City Sarajevo
Country YUG
Held 5 – 15 April 1973
Competitors 45
Countries 12

Events

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

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 China CHN 3 3 2 8
2 Sweden SWE 2 1 0 3
3 Mixed team MIX 1 0 1 2
= South Korea KOR 1 0 1 2
5 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 1 1 2
6 Hungary HUN 0 1 0 1
= Soviet Union URS 0 1 0 1
8 Japan JPN 0 0 3 3
= Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 3 3
10 France FRA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Xi Enting CHN Kjell Johansson SWE Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek
YUG
YUG
Doubles, Men Stellan Bengtsson / Kjell Johansson SWE István Jónyer / Tibor Klampár HUN Jean-Denis Constant / Jacques Secrétin
Antun Stipančić / Dragutin Šurbek
FRA
YUG
Team, Men Sweden SWE China CHN Japan JPN
Doubles, Mixed Liang Geliang / Li Li CHN Anatoly Strokatov / Asta Gedraitite URS Josef Dvořáček / Alice Grófová
Yu Changchun / Zheng Huaiying
TCH
CHN
Singles, Women Hu Yulan CHN Alice Grófová TCH Park Mi-Ra
Zhang Li
KOR
CHN
Doubles, Women Maria Alexandru / Miho Hamada MIX Lin Meiqun / Qiu Baoqin CHN Tazuko Abe / Tomie Edano
Jill Hammersley / Beatrix Kisházi
JPN
MIX
Team, Women South Korea KOR China CHN Japan JPN