Publication date: 15 Aug 2022
About the World Team Table Tennis Championship
The World Table Tennis Championships among teams is a competition between the best table tennis players and it takes place every 2 years. Chinese table tennis players have been leading the pack since 2005.
2024 World Table Tennis Championships
World Team Table Tennis Championship – the 58th World Table Tennis Championship under the auspices of the ITTF will be held in Busan (South Korea) from February 16 to 26, 2024. Sets of medals will be competed among men’s and women’s teams. Teams that reach the quarter finals qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
History of the championships
The first World Table Tennis Championship was held in December 1926 in London’s Memorial Hall. Initially it was supposed to be a European Championship, however as eight athletes from India showed up for the event, it was decided that it should be a world championship.
With every championship the competition program expanded and in subsequent years women competed in singles, doubles and team events. Till 1957 the championships were held annually, while after 1959 they were held biennially due to the European Championships.
Results of the previous competitions
| The year | Venue | Results |
| 2021 | Houston (USA) | men’s singles – Fan Zhendong (China);
women’s singles – Wang Manyu (China); men’s doubles – Christian Karlsson (Sweden)/ Matthias Falk (Sweden); women’s doubles – Wang Manyu (China) / Sun Yingsha (China); mixed doubles – Wang Chuqin (China)/Sun Yingsha (China). |
| 2019 | Budapest (Hungary) | men’s singles – Ma Long (China);
women’s singles – Liu Shiwen (China); men’s doubles – Ma Long (China)/ Wang Chuqin (China); women’s doubles – Wang Manyu (China)/Sun Yingsha (China); mixed doubles – Xu Xin (China)/ Liu Shiwen (China). |
| 2017 | Dusseldorf (Germany) | men’s singles – Ma Long (China);
women’s singles – Ding Ning (China); men’s doubles – Xu Xin (China)/ Fan Zhendong (China); women’s doubles – Ding Ning (China)/ Liu Shiwen (China); mixed doubles – Maharu Yoshimura (Japan)/Kasumi Ishikawa (Japan). |
2026 World Table Tennis Championships
At the moment, only preliminary information is known about the location of the next championship – London.
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