Table tennis at the 1958 Asian Games

Table tennis at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	Waseda University Gymnasium
Dates	25–31 May 1958
Competitors	46 from 7 nations

Table tennis was contested at the 1958 Asian Games in Waseda University Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan from May 25 to 31 May 1958.

Table tennis had team, doubles and singles events for men and women, as well as a mixed doubles competition.

Schedule

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Round

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Last round

P

Preliminary rounds

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	25th Sun	26th Mon	27th Tue	28th Wed			29th Thu			30th Fri			31st Sat
Men's singles							P			P	¼	½	F
Men's doubles							P	¼	½				F
Men's team	●	●	●	●
Women's singles							P			¼		½	F
Women's doubles				P	¼	½							F
Women's team	●	●	●
Mixed doubles				P	¼	½							F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Li Kou-tin  Republic of China	Keisuke Tsunoda  Japan	Seiji Narita  Japan
			Ichiro Ogimura  Japan
Men's doubles details	South Vietnam Mai Văn Hòa Trần Cảnh Được	Republic of China Li Kou-tin Sou Ying-chen	Republic of China Chen Kao-shan Hsieh Chin-ho
			South Vietnam Lê Văn Tiết Trần Văn Liễu
Men's team details	South Vietnam Lê Văn Tiết Mai Văn Hòa Trần Cảnh Được Trần Văn Liễu	Japan Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda	Iran Edmond Beitkhoda Houshang Bozorgzadeh Amir Ehteshamzadeh Hamid Korloo
Women's singles details	Taeko Namba  Japan	Kazuko Yamaizumi  Japan	Cho Kyung-ja  South Korea
			Fujie Eguchi  Japan
Women's doubles details	Japan Fujie Eguchi Kazuko Yamaizumi	Hong Kong Baguio Wong Ng Yuk Chun	South Korea Wie Sang-sook Choi Kyung-ja
			Republic of China Chen Pao-pei Chiang Tsai-yun
Women's team details	Japan Fujie Eguchi Taeko Namba Tomi Okawa Kazuko Yamaizumi	South Korea Cho Kyung-ja Choi Kyung-ja Park Chung-ja Wie Sang-sook	Republic of China Chen Pao-pei Chiang Tsai-yun Ching Yui Yao Tsu
Mixed doubles details	Japan Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi	Japan Toshiaki Tanaka Kazuko Yamaizumi	Japan Seiji Narita Tomi Okawa
			Japan Keisuke Tsunoda Taeko Namba

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	4	5	13
2	South Vietnam (VNM)	2	0	1	3
3	Republic of China (ROC)	1	1	3	5
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	2	3
5	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
6	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	12	26

Participating nations

A total of 46 athletes from 7 nations competed in table tennis at the 1958 Asian Games:

•  Hong Kong (8)
•  Iran (6)
•  Japan (8)
•  Philippines (4)
•  Republic of China (8)
•  South Korea (8)
•  South Vietnam (4)

References

• ITTF Database

External links

• OCA official website