World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships ( TT -WM) are held every year, in the years with an odd number years the Individual World Championships and in the even years, the World Team Championships. Is organized by the ITTF.
For each TT Championship ITTF Congress meets (Annual General Meeting) and advises on the TT rules. Amendments shall be adopted by this body.
History
The first TT World Cup was played in 1926 in London. In 1928 the World Cup was held in every year. Because of the Second World War, the World Cup of 1940 was suspended until 1946. In 1947 in Paris again the 1- year intervals, from 1957, began the two -year cycle. By the year 1997, the individual and team World Championships took place in an event at the same time. After initially canceled due to the political problems of 1999 World Cup in Belgrade and the separation into two events there were transitional solutions. Since 2003, the individual and team World championships are held now separated because the joint event was only difficult to manage due to increasing numbers of participants. In even years, the World Team Championship takes place in odd-numbered years, the title is played out in the individual competitions.
A special situation arose in 1999 when the ITTF Yugoslavia, the implementation of the World Cup eluded because it looked endangered due to the Kosovo War, the safety of the participants. Eindhoven took over the short term orientation of the individual competitions, the World Team Championships a year later was caught up in Kuala Lumpur.
1982 Senior World Championships (World Veterans Table Tennis Championships ) were first held in 2003 was the first time a World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile, instead.
Be discharged competitions
In a TT World Cup following competitions will be played:
- Teams Men The winner receives the Swaythling Cup. This cup worth £ 300 donated Lady Swaythling ( 1879-1965 ) and presented him in person at the first World Cup in 1926 in London at the victorious Hungarian team.
- Teams Ladies The winning women's team gets the Corbillon Cup, named after Marcel Corbillon, the temporary president of the French Federation and TT to 1957 Vice- President of the ITTF. The Corbillon Cup was first held at the 1934 World Cup.
- Men's Singles
- Women's Singles
- Men Doubles
- Women Doubles
- Mixed This is a competition with mixed doubles: A player and a player double play together.
Special prices
The world champion in the men's individual receives the St. Bride Vase, a trophy, which was donated in 1929 by C.Corti Woodcock (member of London's St. Bride Table Tennis Club and at times President of the English Table Tennis Association ETTA ). Since 1931, the Women's World Champion in the individual receives the Spirit Award, donated by the then President of the Hungarian Table Tennis Association Dr. Gaspar spirit. The title winner in the men's doubles honors with Iran Cup, the 1947, the Shah of Persia gave on the occasion of receiving the Iranian Table Tennis Association in the ITTF. 1948, W. J. Pope, Honorary President of the ITTF, the WJ Pope Trophy for the winners of the women's doubles and Zdeněk Heydušek (Managing Director of the Czechoslovak Table Tennis Association ) the Heydusek Prize for the winner of the Mixed competition available.
When the St. Bride Vase or the spirit prize was won a total of three times in succession or four times, then a copy of the trophy gets in half the size. This replica he can keep.
Senior World Championships
Since 1982, every two years instead of the Senior World Championships (World Veterans Table Tennis Championships ), which are organized by the Swaythling Club International. Be eligible, players and players who are at least 40 years old in the year of the event. The men and women play in each of eight age groups, the elderly 40, 50, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80 and 85 in the singles and doubles at the title. Prior qualification is not needed.
The previous host cities of the Senior World Championships:
List of table tennis world champion seniors
Grobe era classification by dominance of Nations
Considering overview below, then you can see roughly the following epochs for supremacy:
- To 1953 Europe ( in the men Hungary)
- Japan 1954-1959
- 1961-1971 China in the men's, Japan in the women's
- 1975-1987 China
- 1989-1993 Sweden in the men's
- Since 1997, China