1933 World Table Tennis Championships (December)
The 8th World Table Tennis Championship took place from 2 to 10 December 1933, Paris ( France) in hall Marboeuf near the Avenue des Champs- Élysées. She was considered for the 1933/34 season.
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For political reasons, the German men's team did not participate in this World Cup. It was feared that might embarrass "superior Nordic race " against "inferior peoples ". Also criticized is that the best German table tennis players - the Greek Nikita Madjaroglou - was not born in Germany. The influence of National Socialism can not be overlooked here.
For the German women fully convinced. For the first time the World Cup was held for women's teams. In this case, Germany was immediately after the first victories over Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Holland and England. Also in the women's singles occupied the German Astrid Krebsbach the 2nd place silver medal the women's doubles Anita Felguth / Astrid Krebsbach.
In the men were at twelve teams. For the first time were the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. Also among the participants were found in Latvia and the only non-European country India. Once again Hungary was Team World Champion.
In men's singles, Victor Barna took the title for the fourth time. With Marie Kettnerová from Czechoslovakia for the first time a non- Hungarian wins the World Championships in women's singles.
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- Because of the anti-Semitic sentiment in Hungary changed some Hungarian player their German -sounding name in Hungarian -sounding names: Tibor Házi was previously Hoffman
- Victor Barna originated from Gyozo Brown
- István Kelen was previously called Small ( missing in this World Cup )