1971 World Table Tennis Championships

The 31st World Table Tennis Championship took place from April 7, 1971 in Nagoya (Japan) on 28 March. It was played in the hall of Aichi Gymnasium.

  • 3.1 Men's team competition
  • 3.2 Women's team competition
  • 3.3 Men's Singles
  • 3.4 Women's Singles
  • 3.5 men's doubles
  • 3.6 Women's Doubles
  • 3.7 Mixed

Winner

For the first time since the World Cup in 1965 in Ljubljana, the male and female players from the People's Republic of China again took part in the World Table Tennis Championships. China's men with the "old guard " to Chuang Tse -Tung and Li Fu -jung also won the team competition with confidence. The Chinese ladies had to defer to the Japanese women. The GDR was not represented.

A total of 39 men's and 27 women's teams participate.

In the men's singles sensationally won the 18 -year-old Swede Stellan Bengtsson against defending Shigeo Itoh. For the first time since the 1961 World Cup was a non- Japanese world champion in women's singles.

Also in the men's doubles won two young European players with István Jonyer / Klampar Tibor from Hungary.

The Austrian inventor and player Toni Hold amazed with the developed his own anti - topspin - scale consisting of a completely ungriffigen and inelastic - resembling more cardboard than rubber - top layer and a soft, coarse-pored sponge pad was made ​​, experts and opponents alike. (9 years later, a hitherto completely unknown Briton John Hilton should be European champions with a development of this coating in Bern. )

Eberhard and Diane Scholer won the bronze medal in the mixed doubles. It was the last medal that could win it.

Game Mode

Men's team competition

First, the teams were dissolved in 12 preliminary round groups consisting of three or four teams. After the mode " all against all " has a rank played.

This was followed by the second round. Since two areas have been formed with the following groups formed:

  • A group I, group II A, Group A III
  • Group BI, B II group, Group B III, Group IV B

All groups consisted of 6 teams with the exception of group B IV in which only played three teams. The 12 winners of the preliminary round played in groups AI and BI solved, the runner-up in groups A and II B II, the third in the Group A III and B III. The remaining three teams competed in Group B IV. In each group played " all against all ".

After playing in the final

  • The two first group of AI and BI in the final of the World Cup
  • Second, the two group of AI and BI to place 3 and 4
  • The two third group of AI and BI to place 5 and 6
  • The two Fourth of group AI and BI to place 7 and 8
  • The two fifth of group AI and BI to place 9 and 10
  • The two Sixth group of AI and BI to place 11 and 12
  • First of the two group A II and B II at position 13 and 14
  • Second, the two of Group A II and B II at position 15 and 16
  • The two third of Group A II and B II at position 17 and 18
  • The two Fourth of group A II and B II to accommodate 19 and 20
  • The two fifth of group A II and B II at position 21 and 22
  • Sixth, the two of Group A II and B II at position 23 and 24
  • First of the two Group A III and B III to accommodate 25 and 26
  • Second, the two of Group A III and B III to accommodate 27 and 28
  • The two third of Group A III and B III to accommodate 29 and 30
  • The two Fourth of Group A III and B III to accommodate 31 and 32
  • The two fifth of group A III and B III to accommodate 33 and 34
  • Sixth, the two of Group A III and B III at position 35 and 36

Women's team competition

The women's teams first played in 12 preliminary groups, each with two or three teams. The last of the three groups dropped out. The first came in the intermediate groups AI and BI, the runner-up in groups A II and B II The final round was played similar to the system of lords.

Individual competition

The individual competitions were held after the KO system. Only the losers of the first round and the first round played in a consolation round ( " Consolation " ) on.

Cutting off the Germans

The German participants were cared for by Dr.Béla Simon, Rudi Gruber and Hannelore sleep.

Men's team competition

The German team sat down in the first round against Nigeria, Malaysia and El Salvador respectively by 5-0. In the second round she won AI against England and 5-4 against Indonesia 5-0, followed by defeats against Yugoslavia ( 3:5 ) and Japan (1:5). After the victory over South Korea ( 5-3 ), it was enough to place third in the finals Germany lost against the third party the group BI Hungary with 2:5 and became the sixth.

Women's team competition

The German women's team won the first round against Nepal 3-0. In the intermediate group BI they defeated Hungary ( 3-0) and Cambodia ( 3:1), however, they lost to Romania ( 2:3 ), Japan ( 0-3 ) and South Korea (0:3). This meant 4th place and thus in the final battle for 7th place where they won against England 3-0.

Men's Singles

Wilfried Lieck came after victories against VMMerchant (India), Yang (Cambodia) and Chou Lan -sun (China) to the second round, where he retired against Jaroslav Kunz (CSSR ).

Eberhard Scholer defeated Phillip Adenkunle Santos ( Nigeria), but lost in the second round against the three -time Vice World Champion Li Fu - Jung ( China).

Martin Ness resigned immediately against Liang Geliang (China).

Bernt Jansen defeated Deepak Vadhera (India) and Derek Wall (Canada), in Round 3 was against the bronze medal winner of the previous World Cup Tasaka Tokyo (Japan) terminus.

Klaus Schmittinger won in the first round against James Wuisan Empie Barlianto (Indonesia) and Waidi W. Dawodu (Nigeria ), but lost in the first round against Štefan Kollárovits (CSSR ). In the consolation round, he reached the final, which he lost to Istvan Korpa.

Women's Singles

Marta Hejma that have not yet been able to play in the team competition for Germany because of her move from Czechoslovakia, won in the first round via Yvonne Eyre Fogarty (New Zealand), but lost in the first round against the World Champion Toshiko Kowada (Japan). In the consolation round, she came to the final, where she defeated Svetlana Grinberg (USSR).

Diane Scholer lost in the first round against Kasuko Inoue (Japan), also fared Agnes Simon against La IS (South Korea).

Brigitte Scharmacher defeated Ninu Shah (Nepal) and lost in round 2 against Yasuko Konno (Japan).

Wiebke Hendriksen also retired after a win over Ann Middleton -McMahon (Australia) in the second round against Yukie Ozeki (Japan) from.

Men's doubles

All German double dropped out early:

  • Jansen / Schmittinger: Defeating Dawodu / Santos ( Nigeria) and Bozorgzadeh / Sanjari (Iran), losing to Šurbek / Stipančić (Yugoslavia).
  • Eberhard Scholer played with South Korean Chu: Defeating Merchant / Ali (India), losing to Kollárovits / Kunz (CSSR )
  • Lieck / Ness: Defeating Barone / Ogassawara (Brazil) and Pedersen / Hansen ( Denmark), defeat Itoh / Kohno (Japan).

Women Doubles

The German women's doubles dropped out early:

  • Hejma / Scharmacher: Defeating Siswono / Nilasari (India), losing to Ozeki / Hamada (Japan)
  • Scholer / Simon: Victory against Traill / Fogarty (New Zealand), defeat Kobori / Kawamorita (Japan).
  • Wiebke Hendriksen played together with the Hungarian Judit Magos: Victory against Sweeris / Hicks ( Französisch-Guayana/Ungarn ), losing to Kowada / Konno (Japan)

Mixed

  • Ness / Hendriksen: Victory against Zulps / pike (Canada), losing to Jonyer / Magos (Hungary).
  • Jansen / Scharmacher: Dhondt / Rioual ( Faroe Islands ), losing to Tanaka / Ohba (Japan).
  • Couple Scholer: Victory against Shibata / Kawamorita (Japan), Secretin / Bergeret (France), Orlowski / Voštová (CSSR ), Beleznay / Kisházi (Hungary ), defeat in the semi-final against Stipančić / Alexandru (Yugoslavia / Romania).
  • Lieck / Simon: defeat by Nishii / Fukuno (Japan).
  • Schmittinger / Hejma: victory over Anatoly Strokatow / Elmira Antonyan (USSR), Aramaki / Motohashi (Japan), defeat Kohno / Kowada (Japan).

Policy

  • During this World Cup China invited the American team to take a guest to Beijing. This visit was followed by other meetings of senior politicians ( Nixon 1972), which stresses degraded and relations have been improved. These events are today known as ping - pong diplomacy. Thus, this TT- WM also received world- political significance.
  • China banned its players to compete against athletes from South Vietnam or Cambodia. For this reason, different Chuang Tse -Tung in the 2nd round of the Men's Single Page without a fight from. Even the Chinese Lin Mei -chun did not occur in the first round of the Women's Single Page against Tan Sok Chen ( Cambodia).

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  • Shigeo Itoh (Japan ) received the Richard Bergmann Prize for fair play.
  • Failure to take account of the Austrian Franz Thallinger has been controversial in advance.
  • For cost reasons, the Switzerland opted not to participate. Instead, the money should be spent for the promotion of young talent.
  • The Japanese postal used in Nagoya for a special TT World Cup.

Results

The following German took part only in the individual competitions:

  • Ladies: Marta Hejma
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