1957 World Table Tennis Championships

The 24th World Table Tennis Championship took place from 7 to 15 March 1957 in Stockholm ( Sweden) in the Royal Tennis Hall instead.

General

For the last time before the construction of the wall took an all-German team participated in the World Cup. A great success was the 3rd place in the individual of Thüringers Heinz Schneider after beating Robert Saul (France), Waldemar Roslan (Poland ), Josef Sedelmayer ( Austria ), Toma Reiter ( Romania), Toshihiko Miyata (Japan) and a defeat against Toshiaki Tanaka (Japan). Heinz Reschke was the coach of the German women.

A somewhat tragic figure was the Englishwoman Ann Haydon (later Ann Haydon - Jones). The left-hander was in singles, doubles and mixed doubles in the final and lost every time in the fifth set. In Mixed - final they led in the 5th set already 14:10. After this World Cup they focused on tennis, because " Tennis is played outdoors and is therefore healthier for me than table tennis ." Here it was very successful.

The last time Agnes Simon played at a World Cup for Hungary. Some time later, she emigrated, played temporarily in Holland and then went to Germany.

In the men's teams, the winners of the four groups contested the semi-finals. Here Japan defeated China 5-1, Hungary distanced CSR 5-0. In the final, Japan won 5-2 against Hungary.

In the women's group winners Japan, China and Romania played in the finals. The Japanese women lost a game and won the title. Romania won against China and became second.

Cutting off the Germans

Men's team competition

The teams were drawn into four groups, three groups with eight teams and one group of nine teams. In the groups Everyone played against anyone who first qualified for the semifinals.

Germany competed in Group 3. Five victories over Denmark, Italy, Australia, USA and Norway were compared with two defeats against Brazil and the CSR. Because of the better set ratio compared to the U.S. and Brazil that was enough for second place.

Women's team competition

The women's teams were drawn into three groups. Two groups were occupied by nine teams in the group with Germany were only six teams, because Brazil and Vietnam arrived unexpectedly without ladies.

In group 2 was only a victory over Italy. The remaining fights against Scotland, CSR, Hungary and Japan were lost. This means that Germany occupied the penultimate fifth place.

Men's Singles

The most successful Heinz Schneider was by reaching the semi-final after a bye in the first round and wins over Robert Saul (France), Waldemar Roslan (Poland ), Josef Sedelmayer ( Austria ), Toma Reiter ( Romania) and Toshihiko Miyata (Japan). Here he lost 0-3 to the eventual champion Toshiaki Tanaka (Japan).

In the run had been placed the highest hopes on Conny Freundorfer. However, this had already failed in round one at Husseyn Amir Ehteshamzade ( Persia ). Just as quickly Josef Wenninghoff was out of the race by losing against Einar Lyttik (Denmark). Even Heinz Haupt could not prevail against Kalman Szepesi (Sweden). A round survived Herbert Gomolla ( win against Max Laine, Finland; defeat against Ichiro Ogimura, Japan ), Lothar Pleuse ( win against Carlo Jaminet, Luxembourg, losing to Paul Gimbel, The Netherlands) and Bernie Vossebein ( victory against Tony Larsson, Sweden; defeat against Guy Dela Barre, Belgium).

Heinz Reimann came forth two rounds. He won against Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen ( Switzerland ) and Ian Barclay (Scotland). He then lost to Sweden Bjorne Mellström.

Women's Singles

Annegret Thöle was the most successful. After victories over Did Heederik (Netherlands) and Gudrun Kahn's (Denmark) it was defeated in the Round of 32 of the Hungarian Olivia Mosoczy.

A win was Liane Rödel, namely the Englishwoman Elsie Carrington. Then she lost to Monique Jaquet ( Switzerland ). Monika Wiskandt came through the tackle -free profits in round three, where she was against Kiiko Watanabe no chance. Right in the first round eliminated from the rest of the German Women: Hannelore sleeping against Dinka Nikolic (Yugoslavia), Ursel Fiedler against Brigitta Sjölund (Sweden), Ute Mittelstädt against Leah Neuberger.

Men's doubles

Fared best Vossebein / Wenninghoff. After three victories against Mahomed Cassim Peer / Mohamed Goolam Hoosen Molla (South Africa), Karlsson / Leif Bergman (Sweden) and Sebastiao Coelho / Antonio Osorio ( Portugal) Hungary Ferenc Sido / Elemer Gyetvay were too strong. Schneider / Pleuse won against M. Kasanin / Marcus Gumpler (Belgium / Finland), then had a bye and lost in the third round against the eventual runners Toshiaki Tanaka / Ichirō Ogimura (Japan). Seiz / Gomolla eliminated in the first round against Chuan -yao Wang / Ping -chuan Hu. A round progressed Heinz Reimann / Heinz main by beating Larsson / Per Magnusson (Sweden). Then they lost to Krishna Nagagaj / Lou Laza (India / Australia). Freundorfer / Holusek had initially bye. Then they threw Nguyen Kim Hang / Tran Van Lieu (Vietnam) out of the race, however, meant Václav Tereba / Ludvik Vyhnanovský ( CSR) terminus.

Women Doubles

Sleep / Fiedler excreted only in the fourth round against Ella Zeller / Angelica Rozeanu (Romania ) after Ghislaine Roland / Gertrude Walter ( Belgium / Austria ), Jill Rook / Joyce Fielder (England) and Molly Jones / Anneke Lahey ( England / Netherlands) had been defeated. Thöle / Wiskandt prevailed against the Swedes Signhild Tegner / Elisabeth Thorsson, but then lost against San Sook / chof Kyong Yes ( Korea). Also Rödel / Mittelstädt came against Monique Alber / Reina Wetterström (France / Sweden) to the next round. Helen Elliot / Mary Golopenta ( Scotland / Romania) were too strong.

Mixed

The Mixed competition was also held, however, few individual results are known.

• Vossebein / Thöle: bye, then against Ping-chuan/Chung-hui Hu (China)
• Seiz / Fiedler: bye, then against Vyhnanovský / Elliot (CSSR / Scotland)
• Freundorfer / Sleep: bye, then defeat Harasztosi / Golopenka (Romania )
• Schneider / Wsikandt: victory over Thornhill / Rook (England), after the game against Kerr / Owens ( Scotland / Ireland)
• Pleuse / Rödel: Defeating Wegrath / Scheiner ( Austria ) as well as victory over Gunn / Bessinger (USA)
• Holusek / Brell: defeat by Gantner / Zeller ( Romania)
• Reimann / Schwarzova ( CSR): Victory against Laza / Buckland ( Austria ) and against Schoofs / Heederich (Netherlands)
• Gomolla / Mittelstädt: Victory against Stoop / Artz (The Netherlands ) and victory against B.Mellström / Thorsson (Sweden)

Find out more

• The Australian Lou Laza is also professional in cricket.
• In Stockholm, a special post is used with the illustration of two table tennis rackets.

ITTF Congress

Parallel to the World Cup was held the Congress of the ITTF. Some decisions:

• The World Championships will be held in future only every two years.
• DTTB President Karl -Heinz Eckardt is the successor to the retiring ITTF Vice President Marcel Corbillon.
• The Saarland is eliminated from the ITTF since it joined the DTTB. New members are North Korea, Malta and Turkey. Thereafter, the ITTF has 72 members.
• The Egyptian Table Tennis Association donated a trophy to be received by each of the host a World Cup.
• There have been discussions to abolish the centerline at double games. A decision was postponed.

Results

The following German took part only in the individual competitions:

• Men: Herbert Gomolla, Heinz Haupt, Lothar Pleuse, Heinz Reimann, Josef Wenninghoff
• Ladies: Ute Mittelstädt, Annegret Thöle