The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926.[1][2]

The championships were originally held as the European Championships which was the same year that the International Table Tennis Federation was formed. It was retrospectively designated as the first World Championships.[3]

Medalists

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team
Swaythling Cup
 Hungary
Roland Jacobi
Béla von Kehrling
Zoltán Mechlovits
Daniel Pecsi		  Austria
Paul Flussmann
Eduard Freudenheim
Munio Pillinger		  England
Charles Allwright
Bernard Bernstein
Percival Bromfield
Frank Burls
James Thompson
 India
Athar-Ali Fyzee
Hassan Ali Fyzee
A.M. Peermahomed
B.C. Singh
S.R.G. Suppiah

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
Kingdom of Hungary Roland Jacobi Kingdom of Hungary Zoltán Mechlovits Austria Munio Pillinger
India S.R.G. Suppiah
Women's singles
Kingdom of Hungary Mária Mednyánszky Wales Doris Gubbins Austria Anastasia Flussmann
England Winifred Land
Men's doubles
 Kingdom of Hungary Roland Jacobi
Kingdom of Hungary Daniel Pecsi		 Kingdom of Hungary Zoltán Mechlovits
Kingdom of Hungary Béla von Kehrling		 Austria Paul Flussmann
Austria Munio Pillinger
Wales Cyril Mossford
Wales Hedley Penny
Mixed doubles
 Kingdom of Hungary Zoltán Mechlovits
Kingdom of Hungary Mária Mednyánszky		 Kingdom of Hungary Roland Jacobi
England Linda Gleeson		 Austria Eduard Freudenheim
Austria Gertrude Wildam
England H.A. Bennett
England Winifred Land

References

  1. ↑ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 310. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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