1956 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from April 2 to April 11, 1956.^[1]

1956 World Table Tennis Championships

Events
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
Team	men	women
1955 1957
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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda	Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský	China Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Tsen Huai-Kuang Wang Chuanyao Yang Jai-Hua
Swaythling Cup Men's Team			Romania Matei Gantner Tiberiu Harasztosi Paul Pesch Mircea Popescu Toma Reiter
Corbillon Cup Women's Team	Romania Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	England Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Jill Rook	Japan Fujie Eguchi Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka Kiiko Watanabe

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Ichiro Ogimura	Toshiaki Tanaka	Yoshio Tomita
Men's singles	Ichiro Ogimura	Toshiaki Tanaka	Akio Nohira
Women's singles	Tomie Okawa	Kiiko Watanabe	Fujie Eguchi
Women's singles	Tomie Okawa	Kiiko Watanabe	Ella Zeller
Men's doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek	Václav Tereba Ludvik Vyhnanovsky
Men's doubles	Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek	Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda
Women's doubles	Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe	Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka
Women's doubles	Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe	Ann Haydon Diane Rowe
Mixed doubles	Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger	Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon	Motoo Fujii Yoshiko Tanaka
Mixed doubles	Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger	Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon	Toma Reiter Ella Zeller

v t e World Table Tennis Championships
Individual 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

Team