1956 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from April 2 to April 11, 1956.^[1]^[2]

Medalists edit

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda	Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský	China Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Tsen Huai-Kuang Wang Chuanyao Yang Jai-Hua
Swaythling Cup Men's Team			Romania Matei Gantner Tiberiu Harasztosi Paul Pesch Mircea Popescu Toma Reiter
Corbillon Cup Women's Team	Romania Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	England Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Jill Rook	Japan Fujie Eguchi Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka Kiiko Watanabe

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Ichiro Ogimura	Toshiaki Tanaka	Yoshio Tomita
Men's singles	Ichiro Ogimura	Toshiaki Tanaka	Akio Nohira
Women's singles	Tomie Okawa	Kiiko Watanabe	Fujie Eguchi
Women's singles	Tomie Okawa	Kiiko Watanabe	Ella Zeller
Men's doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek	Václav Tereba Ludvik Vyhnanovsky
Men's doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek	Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda
Women's doubles	Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe	Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka
Women's doubles	Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe	Ann Haydon Diane Rowe
Mixed doubles	Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger	Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon	Motoo Fujii Yoshiko Tanaka
Mixed doubles	Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger	Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon	Toma Reiter Ella Zeller

^ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}