1938 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1938 World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from January 24 to January 29, 1938.^[1] The pool stages were held at the Royal Albert Hall with the finals at the Wembley Empire Pool and Sports Arena.^[2]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's team	Hungary Viktor Barna Laszlo Bellak Ernő Földi Tibor Házi Ferenc Soos	Austria Richard Bergmann Helmut Goebel Erich Kaspar Alfred Liebster Karl Schediwy	United States Bernard Grimes George Hendry James McClure Lou Pagliaro Sol Schiff
Swaythling Cup Men's team			Czechoslovakia Miloslav Hamr Stanislav Kolář Adolf Šlár Václav Tereba Bohumil Váňa
Corbillon Cup Women's team	Czechoslovakia Vlasta Depetrisová Jindriska Holubkova Marie Kettnerová Věra Votrubcová	England Dora Emdin Phyllis Hodgkinson Doris Jordan Margaret Osborne	Austria Zita Lemo Gertrude Pritzi

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Bohumil Váňa	Richard Bergmann	Viktor Barna
Men's Singles	Bohumil Váňa	Richard Bergmann	Tibor Házi
Women's singles	Gertrude Pritzi	Vlasta Depetrisová	Věra Votrubcová
Women's singles	Gertrude Pritzi	Vlasta Depetrisová	Betty Henry
Men's Doubles	James McClure Sol Schiff	Viktor Barna Laszlo Bellak	Stanislav Kolář Václav Tereba
Men's Doubles	James McClure Sol Schiff	Viktor Barna Laszlo Bellak	Eric Filby Hyman Lurie
Women's Doubles	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová	Dora Beregi Ida Ferenczy	Phyllis Hodgkinson Doris Jordan
Women's Doubles	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová	Dora Beregi Ida Ferenczy	Dora Emdin Margaret Osborne
Mixed Doubles	Laszlo Bellak Wendy Woodhead	Bohumil Váňa Věra Votrubcová	Alfred Liebster Gertrude Pritzi
Mixed Doubles	Laszlo Bellak Wendy Woodhead	Bohumil Váňa Věra Votrubcová	Václav Tereba Marie Kettnerová

↑ ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results". Retrieved December 26, 2025.
↑ "Former England Captain Miles passes away". Table Tennis England. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2018-03-13.