1939 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939.

Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing. Viktor Barna and Richard Bergmann played under the England flag for the first time.

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's team	Czechoslovakia Miloslav Hamr Rudolf Karlecek Václav Tereba Bohumil Váňa	Yugoslavia Žarko Dolinar Tibor Harangozo Adolf Heršković Ladislav Hexner Maks Marinko	England Ernest Bubley Ken Hyde Hyman Lurie Ken Stanley Arthur Wilmott
Corbillon Cup Women's team	Germany Hilde Bussmann Gertrude Pritzi	Czechoslovakia Vlasta Depetrisová Marie Kettnerová Věra Votrubcová	Romania Angelica Adelstein Sári Kolozsvári

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Richard Bergmann	Alojzy Ehrlich	Bohumil Váňa
			Žarko Dolinar
Women's singles	Vlasta Depetrisová	Gertrude Pritzi	Samiha Naili
			Marie Kettnerová
Men's Doubles	Viktor Barna Richard Bergmann	Miloslav Hamr Josef Tartakower	Ken Hyde Hyman Lurie
			Raoul Bedoc Michel Haguenauer
Women's Doubles	Hilde Bussmann Gertrude Pritzi	Angelica Adelstein Sári Kolozsvári	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová
			Marie Kettnerová Samiha Naili
Mixed Doubles	Bohumil Váňa Věra Votrubcová	Václav Tereba Marie Kettnerová	Marcel Geargoura Hilde Bussmann
			Mansour Helmy Gertrude Pritzi

External links

• ITTF Museum