1938 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1938 World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from January 24 to January 29, 1938.^[1][2] The pool stages were held at the Royal Albert Hall with the finals at the Wembley Empire Pool and Sports Arena.^[3]

Medalists

Team

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
			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

Individual

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

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.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. "Former England Captain Miles passes away". Table Tennis England. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2018-03-13.

External links

• ITTF Museum