The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Birmingham at the then newly opened National Exhibition Centre, from March 28 to April 7, 1977.

Organisation

During these Championships, players and officials stayed at the Student Accommodation at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, from where coaches took all participants backwards and forwards between here and the NEC daily for the two weeks of the championships. Although run by the ETTA for the ITTF, headed by Mr Maurice Goldstein, Management, Tournament & Coaching Committee members from the BDTTA (Birmingham & District Table Tennis Association) played a major part with six months of preparatory work prior to this event, the first to be held at the NEC. It was also from the BDTTA that many gave freely of their time to help run this championship, through their expertise of running many other local annual table tennis tournaments, such at the 3 star Midlands Open and Birmingham Closed.[1][2]

Results

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup
Men's Team
 China
Guo Yuehua
Huang Liang
Li Zhenshi
Liang Geliang
Wang Jun
 Japan
Tetsuo Inoue
Mitsuru Kono
Masahiro Maehara
Norio Takashima
Tokio Tasaka
 Sweden
Stellan Bengtsson
Ake Gronlund
Kjell Johansson
Roger Lagerfeldt
Ulf Thorsell
Corbillon Cup
Women's team
 China
Ge Xinai
Zhang Deying
Zhang Li
Zhu Xiangyun
 South Korea
Chung Hyun-sook
Kim Soon-ok
Lee Ailesa
Lee Ki Won
 North Korea
Kim Chang-Ae
Li Song Suk
Pak Yong-Ok
Pak Yung-Sun

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Japan Mitsuru Kohno China Guo Yuehua China Liang Geliang
China Huang Liang
Women's singles North Korea Pak Yung-Sun China Zhang Li China Ge Xin'ai
China Zhang Deying
Men's doubles China Li Zhenshi
China Liang Geliang
China Huang Liang
China Lu Yuansheng
Sweden Stellan Bengtsson
Sweden Kjell Johansson
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Antun Stipančić
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Šurbek
Women's doubles North Korea Pak Yong-ok
China Yang Ying
China Zhu Xiangyun
China Wei Lijie
China Zhang Li
China Ge Xin'ai
South Korea Lee Ki Won
South Korea Kim Soon-ok
Mixed doubles France Jacques Secrétin
France Claude Bergeret
Japan Tokio Tasaka
Japan Sachiko Yokota
China Li Zhenshi
China Yan Guili
South Korea Lee Sang-kuk
South Korea Lee Ki Won

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.
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