1936 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1936 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from March 12 to March 18, 1936.[1][2]

World Table Tennis Championships
Singles   Men   Women
Doubles   Men   Women   Mixed
Team   Men   Women
   Previous    1935     Next    1937

The championships were criticised for the bad management and poor tables.[3] The Lucerna Palace arena (a 4,000-seat, underground concert hall) conditions were also described as chaos.[4]

Medalists

Team
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's team		  Austria
Erwin Kohn
Richard Bergmann
Helmut Goebel
Hans Hartinger
Alfred Liebster		  Romania
Viktor Vladone
Marin Vasile-Goldberger
Farkas Paneth		  Czechoslovakia
Stanislav Kolář
Bohumil Váňa
Miloslav Hamr
Václav Tereba
František Hanec Pivec
 France
Michel Haguenauer
Charles Dubouillé
Raoul Bedoc
Daniel Guérin
Paul Wolschoefer
 Hungary
Viktor Barna
Miklós Szabados
Laszlo Bellak
István Kelen
Tibor Házi
 Poland
Alojzy Ehrlich
Samuel Schieff
Shimcha Finkelstein
Jezierski
Corbillon Cup
Women's team		 Czechoslovakia
Marie Kettnerová
Gertrude Kleinová
Marie Šmídová
Věra Votrubcová		 Germany
Astrid Krebsbach
Anita Felguth
Hilde Bussmann
United States
Ruth Aarons
Jessie Purves
Corinne Migneco		 Not awarded,
as there was a tie for silver.

Individual
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Singles Stanislav Kolář Alojzy Ehrlich Ferenc Soos
Richard Bergmann
Women's Singles Ruth Aarons Astrid Krebsbach Marie Kettnerová
Marie Šmídová
Men's Doubles Robert Blattner
James McClure		 Stanislav Kolář
Okter Petrisek		 Tibor Házi
Ferenc Soos
Karel Fleischner
Adolf Šlár
Women's Doubles Marie Kettnerová
Marie Šmídová		 Vlasta Depetrisová
Věra Votrubcová		 Ruth Aarons
Jessie Purves
Magda Gál
Mária Mednyánszky
Mixed Doubles Miloslav Hamr
Gertrude Kleinová		 István Kelen
Mária Mednyánszky		 Helmut Ullrich
Annemarie Schulz
Stanislav Kolář
Marie Šmídová

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. "World Championships at Prague" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
  4. "U.S. Ties For Second in Prague Corbillon Cup Pla". Team USA. Archived from the original on 2018-09-29. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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