1956 World Table Tennis Championships From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1956 edition of the World Table Tennis Championships 1956 World Table TennisChampionshipsEventsSinglesmenwomenDoublesmenwomenmixedTeammenwomen19551957vte The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from April 2 to April 11, 1956.[1] Team Event Gold Silver Bronze Swaythling CupMen's Team JapanIchiro OgimuraToshiaki TanakaYoshio TomitaKeisuke Tsunoda CzechoslovakiaIvan AndreadisLadislav ŠtípekVáclav TerebaLudvík Vyhnanovský ChinaHu Ping-chuanChiang Yung-NingTsen Huai-KuangWang ChuanyaoYang Jai-Hua RomaniaMatei GantnerTiberiu HarasztosiPaul PeschMircea PopescuToma Reiter Corbillon CupWomen's Team RomaniaAngelica RozeanuElla Zeller EnglandAnn HaydonDiane RoweJill Rook JapanFujie EguchiTomi OkawaYoshiko TanakaKiiko Watanabe Individual Event Gold Silver Bronze Men's singles Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Akio Nohira Women's singles Tomie Okawa Kiiko Watanabe Fujie Eguchi Ella Zeller Men's doubles Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvik Vyhnanovsky Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda Women's doubles Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Mixed doubles Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon Motoo Fujii Yoshiko Tanaka Toma Reiter Ella Zeller References ↑ ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results". Retrieved December 26, 2025. External links ITTF Museum vteWorld Table Tennis ChampionshipsIndividual and team London 1926 Stockholm 1928 Budapest 1929 Berlin 1930 Budapest 1931 Prague 1932 Baden 1933 Paris 1934 Wembley 1935 Prague 1936 Baden 1937 Wembley 1938 Cairo 1939 Paris 1947 Wembley 1948 Stockholm 1949 Budapest 1950 Vienna 1951 Bombay 1952 Bucharest 1953 Wembley 1954 Utrecht 1955 Tokyo 1956 Stockholm 1957 Dortmund 1959 Beijing 1961 Prague 1963 Ljubljana 1965 Stockholm 1967 Munich 1969 Nagoya 1971 Sarajevo 1973 Calcutta 1975 Birmingham 1977 Pyongyang 1979 Novi Sad 1981 Tokyo 1983 Gothenburg 1985 New Delhi 1987 Dortmund 1989 Chiba 1991 Gothenburg 1993 Tianjin 1995 Manchester 1997 Osaka 2001 Individual only Eindhoven 1999 Paris 2003 Shanghai 2005 Zagreb 2007 Yokohama 2009 Rotterdam 2011 Paris 2013 Suzhou 2015 Düsseldorf 2017 Budapest 2019 Houston 2021 Durban 2023 Doha 2025 Team only Kuala Lumpur 2000 Doha 2004 Bremen 2006 Guangzhou 2008 Moscow 2010 Dortmund 2012 Tokyo 2014 Kuala Lumpur 2016 Halmstad 2018 Busan 2020 Chengdu 2022 Busan 2024 London 2026 List of medalists Related Articles