1987 World Table Tennis Championships
The 39th World Table Tennis Championship took place from March 1, 1987 in New Delhi ( India) on 18 February. Venue was the Indira Gandhi Stadium.
- 3.1 Men's team competition
- 3.2 Women's team competition
- 3.3 Men's Singles
- 3.4 men's doubles
- 3.5 Women's Singles
- 3.6 Women's Doubles
- 3.7 Mixed
General
A total of 60 men's teams and 50 women's teams were on. All seven titles went to Asia, 6 of them in the "Middle Kingdom " of China. Although the Swedish men were greatly improved, they could not win the final against the Chinese team for the World Champion Jiang Jialiang.
In the men's singles Jan- Ove Waldner expressed his performance and penetrated to the finals, but there had to acknowledge the superiority of the Chinese defending champion Jiang Jialiang.
Besides Waldner Europe was able to score with a 3rd place only in the men's doubles by the Yugoslavs Zoran Primorac / Ilija Lupulesku with a 2nd place and by the Poland Leszek Kucharski / Andrzej Grubba. All other medals remained in Asia.
The German men's team achieved a good 7th place, the German women were 14
Game system of team competitions
The category system used in previous World Championships will be replaced by a three - stage system. Under this system play the ladies and also the men's teams.
In the first stage 16 the groups A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S can be formed. The first 16 teams in the previous World Cup in 1985 are set, each of these is a assigned to a group. The remaining teams will be drawn into the groups. In this way, groups of 4 or 5 teams.
As a result, the 16 group winners play for the places 1 to 16, the second to the positions 17 to 32, the third for places 33 to 48 and the fourth for places 49 to 64
For this purpose, in the 2nd stage 16 groups are formed according to the following scheme:
It means
Group AA: A1, H1, K1, R1
Group BB: B1, G1, J1, S1
Group CC: C1, F1, L1, P1
Group DD: D1, E1, M1, N1
Second (ranked 17-32 )
It means
EE group: A2, G2, J2, S2
Group FF: B2, H2, K2, R2
GG group: C2, E2, M2, N2
Group HH: D2, F2, L2, P2
Third parties ( space 33-48 )
It means
Group JJ: A3, H3, K3, R3
Group KK: B3, G3, J3, S3
Group LL: C3, E3, M3, N3
Group MM: D3, F3, L3, P3
Fourth ( place 49-64 )
It means
Group NN: A4, H4, J4, R4 Group PP: B4, G4, K4, S4 RR group: C4, F4, L4, P4 Group SS: D4, E4, M4, N4 3rd stage In this step, first played for a play-off system.
To Ranks 1-8 9-16 17-24 25-36 ------------------------------------------------ AA1 - DD2 AA3 - BB4 EE1 - HH2 EE3 - HH4 BB2 - CC1 CC4 - DD3 FF2 - GG1 FF4 - GG3 DD1 - CC2 CC3 - DD4 HH1 - EE2 HH3 - GG4 AA2 - AA4 BB1 - BB3 GG2 - FF1 EE4 - FF3 Here, for example, CC4 = Fourth Group CC from the 2nd stage.
Then play continues according to a modified knock-out system.
Criticism of this system
There was criticism that the pairings are fixed in the 3rd stage in advance. This allows the 2nd stage tactical strategies so that you meet in the 3rd stage on " pleasant " opponents. Tactical defeats imputed critics of the Dutch women's team in the game against the USSR and the Polish men's team against Yugoslavia.
It was therefore proposed auszulosen the pairings for the 3rd stage in the future only after the completion of the group matches of the 2nd stage.
Cutting off the Germans
Men's team competition
With number 17 in the previous World Cup 1985 Germany would have become by the force at that time in Category A category system. Therefore, the German team was ranked among the top 16 nations, was therefore set and was ranked in the 1st stage in the R group. These were solved Italy, Malta and North Yemen, the latter remained the event but remote. After victories over North Yemen (5-0 ) and Italy (5:1), Germany ranked first place
In the 2nd stage Germany was second in Group AA. The 0:5 defeat against China followed victories against France ( 5-1 ) and England ( 5-4 ).
In the 3rd stage - the placement games 1-8 - the team lost against Sweden with almost 4:5 (Georg Böhm took three points, Ralf Wosik a point ). This one came to the losers bracket to Rank 5 - 8 Here they lost against Poland (1:5, by Georg Böhm point of honor ) and later won the game for 7th place against Taiwan 5-2.
Jürgen Rebel could be used only in the last two team competition due to illness.
Women's team competition
The women's team had to do without Olga Nemes, who had not gone to the World Cup due to illness and was replaced by Nicole Dekein.
As 14.er at the previous World Cup in 1985, the German team was set and was ranked in the 1st stage in Group N. Here they were two 3-0 victories against Isle of Man and Austria first. This also randomly assigned Philippines withdrew his team.
In the 2nd stage, the team lost in group DD all games: Netherlands 0:3, 1:3 USSR and Hong Kong 2:3. This was enough in the 3rd stage only to the games to rank 9-16. After the 0-3 defeat to Czechoslovakia you won in the loser's bracket against France 3-0, but then lost the match for third place against 13 Hong Kong 3-2. This meant the same No. 14 as of the last World Cup.
Men's Singles
The most of all Germans Georg Böhm came both in single as well as double. After victories over the Koreans Hong Chol and the Canadian Horatio Pintea he retired in the third round against the Poland Leszek Kucharski. Steffen Fetzner failed already in the qualifying round to Peter S.Jackson (New Zealand), as Jürgen Rebel, who won against Jwat Hikmat (Palestine) and Istvan Polyak, but lost to the Arun J. Barua. Jörg Rosskopf lost the first game, Erik Lindh (Sweden). Likewise, Ralf Wosik failed in round 1 at Ahn Jae- hyung (South Korea).
Men's doubles
Latest in the 2.Hauptrunde all German double were excreted. Wosik / Rebel sat in the qualifying round against Mogens Sonnichsen / Claus Sandbye (Denmark) and Mashoor al Khatib / Mohamed al Khoder (Saudi Arabia) through, but after that were the South Koreans Ahn Jae- hyung / Yoo Nam -Kyu too strong. Fetzner / Roßkopf failed already in the qualifying round to the North Koreans Chu Jong Chol / Kim Song Hui, previously had won against Oktay Cimen / Gurhan Yaldiz (Turkey). The most Georg Böhm came with his Swedish doubles partner Thomas von Scheele. In the first round they won against Nuno Dias / Diamantino Pinto ( Portugal), Juan B. Perez / Jose M. Pales (Spain ) and David McIlroy / Anwar Majid (Scotland). In the main round it off from the Dutchman Paul Haldane / Henk of Spanje, but then could not get stuck against the Japanese Juzo Nukazuka / Kiyoshi Saito.
Women's Singles
Already eliminated in the 1st round Ilka Böhning ( against Jolanta Szatko - Nowak, Poland) and Katja Nolten ( against Jelena Kovtun, USSR) from. Nicole Dekein came after a walkover and a win against Katalina Ivanova (Bulgaria) in the 3rd round, where she was stopped by the Japanese artist Kiyomi Ishida. Margit Freiberg came through the qualifying round by beating Habil Souha (Syria ) and Nihal Mischref (Egypt). After a walk was in the main round 2 terminus against Chen Zihe (China).
Susanne Wenzel competed in the individual competitions for Luxembourg. They defeated the North Korean Kim Sun Gyong, but subsequently lost to Daniela Gergeltschewa (Bulgaria).
Women Doubles
Quite successful was the double Dekein / Nolten. It survived two rounds against Elisabeth Robb / Janet Smith ( Scotland) and Jose Bakker / Bettine Vriesekoop (Netherlands) and then fail because of the Japanese girls Mika Hoshino / Miki Kitsukawa. Lospech had Böhning / Freiberg: You had no chance in the first round against the Chinese He Zhili / Jiao Zhimin.
Mixed
Fetzner / Nolten lost in round 1 against Massimo Costantini / Giorgia Zampini (Italy). A round progressed Böhm / Böhning: The victory over Lars Hauth / Charlotte Polk (Denmark) followed by the off against Zsolt Harczi / Edit Urbán (Hungary). Rebel / Freiberg not survive the qualifying round. They won against Malcolm Darroch / Sharon Coad (New Zealand ), but then lost against Ron van Spanje / Brigitte Thiriet (Netherlands / France). Ralf Wosik had the Swede Pia Eliasson as a partner. They turned first of all in the qualifying round Pedro Miguel / Ana Placido (Portugal ), Alain Bourbonnais / Jill Barton ( Canada ) and Walter Nathan / Monica Liyau (Peru ) as well as in the main round David Hannah / Elisabet TOBB (Scotland ), then retired but against Igor Podnossov / Valentina Popova (USSR) from.
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- The players from Israel has been granted an entry visa for political reasons, they could not participate, therefore.
- Many European participants diseased. Gastrointestinal complaints and fevers disabled strong. Therefore Mikael Appelgren traveled home early. When Dietmar Palmi malaria was diagnosed.
- Jacques Secretin ended his international career.
- The Czech Hrachová Marie receives from the SCI Richard Bergmann Fair Play Award.
- The Chinese Jiang Jialiang awarded the Victor Barna Price from SCI.
ITTF Congress
At the ITTF Congress, which takes place at the World Championships every time the Japanese Ichiro Ogimura was chosen as the successor of Roy Evans as president. Deputy was the Swede Sven -Olof Hammarlund. Two rules were changed: must not exceed 2 minutes rest between all sets are made of a game. Upon impact, the ball must be thrown up at least 16 cm from the free hand.