1936 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1936 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from March 12 to March 18, 1936.^[1]^[2]

The championships were criticised for the bad management and poor tables.^[3] The Lucerna Palace arena (a 4,000-seat, underground concert hall) conditions were also described as chaos.^[4]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's team	Austria Erwin Kohn Richard Bergmann Helmut Goebel Hans Hartinger Alfred Liebster	Romania Viktor Vladone Marin Vasile-Goldberger Farkas Paneth	Czechoslovakia Stanislav Kolář Bohumil Váňa Miloslav Hamr Václav Tereba František Hanec Pivec
			France Michel Haguenauer Charles Dubouillé Raoul Bedoc Daniel Guérin Paul Wolschoefer
			Hungary Viktor Barna Miklós Szabados Laszlo Bellak István Kelen Tibor Házi
			Poland Alojzy Ehrlich Samuel Schieff Shimcha Finkelstein Jezierski
Corbillon Cup Women's team	Czechoslovakia Marie Kettnerová Gertrude Kleinová Marie Šmídová Věra Votrubcová	Germany Astrid Krebsbach Anita Felguth Hilde Bussmann United States Ruth Aarons Jessie Purves Corinne Migneco	Not awarded, as there was a tie for silver.

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Stanislav Kolář	Alojzy Ehrlich	Ferenc Soos
Men's Singles	Stanislav Kolář	Alojzy Ehrlich	Richard Bergmann
Women's Singles	Ruth Aarons	Astrid Krebsbach	Marie Kettnerová
Women's Singles	Ruth Aarons	Astrid Krebsbach	Marie Šmídová
Men's Doubles	Robert Blattner James McClure	Stanislav Kolář Okter Petrisek	Tibor Házi Ferenc Soos
Men's Doubles	Robert Blattner James McClure	Stanislav Kolář Okter Petrisek	Karel Fleischner Adolf Šlár
Women's Doubles	Marie Kettnerová Marie Šmídová	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová	Ruth Aarons Jessie Purves
Women's Doubles	Marie Kettnerová Marie Šmídová	Vlasta Depetrisová Věra Votrubcová	Magda Gál Mária Mednyánszky
Mixed Doubles	Miloslav Hamr Gertrude Kleinová	István Kelen Mária Mednyánszky	Helmut Ullrich Annemarie Schulz
Mixed Doubles	Miloslav Hamr Gertrude Kleinová	István Kelen Mária Mednyánszky	Stanislav Kolář Marie Šmídová

References

^ "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "World Championships at Prague" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
^ "U.S. Ties For Second in Prague Corbillon Cup Pla". Team USA. Archived from the original on 2018-09-29. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

External links

ITTF Museum

[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] "World Championships at Prague" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

[4] "U.S. Ties For Second in Prague Corbillon Cup Pla". Team USA. Archived from the original on 2018-09-29. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

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