1959 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund from March 27 to April 5, 1959.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medalists edit

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Japan Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura	Hungary Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc Sidó	China Chiang Yung-Ning Rong Guotuan Wang Chuanyao Xu Yinsheng Yang Jai-Hua
Swaythling Cup Men's Team			South Vietnam Lê Văn Tiết Mai Văn Hòa Trần Cảnh Được Trần Văn Liễu
Corbillon Cup Women's Team	Japan Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	South Korea Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyung-ja Hwang Yool-ja Lee Chong-Hi	China Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying Ye Peiqiong

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Rong Guotuan	Ferenc Sidó	Richard Miles
Men's Singles	Rong Guotuan	Ferenc Sidó	Ichiro Ogimura
Women's Singles	Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Fujie Eguchi	Qiu Zhonghui
Women's Singles	Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Fujie Eguchi	Éva Kóczián
Men's doubles	Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura	Ladislav Štípek Ludvik Vyhnanovsky	Zoltán Berczik László Földy
Men's doubles	Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura	Ladislav Štípek Ludvik Vyhnanovsky	Hans Alsér Ake Rakell
Women's doubles	Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Ann Haydon Diane Rowe
Women's doubles	Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying
Mixed doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi	Teruo Murakami Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Wang Chuanyao Sun Meiying
Mixed doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi	Teruo Murakami Kimiyo Matsuzaki	Zoltán Berczik Gizi Lantos-Farkas

^ "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]}
^ "1959 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-04-24.