Table Tennis Guide

1956 World Table Tennis Championships

Location: Tokyo (Japan)
Date: 2 April - 11 April 1956

Medalists
Medal Count


Category
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Category: Men's Singles
Gold: Ogimura Ichiro
Silver: Tanaka Toshiaki
Bronze: Nohira Akio

Tomita Yoshio
Category: Women's Singles
Gold: Okada Tomie
Silver: Watanabe Kiiko
Bronze: Constantinescu-Zeller Ella

Eguchi Fujie
Category: Men's Doubles
Gold: Ogimura Ichiro
Tomita Yoshio
Silver: Andreadis Ivan
Stipek Ladislav
Bronze: Tanaka Toshiaki
Tsunoda Keisuke

Tereba Vaclav
Vyhnanovsky Ludvik
Category: Women's Doubles
Gold: Constantinescu-Zeller Ella
Rozeanu Angelica
Silver: Eguchi Fujie
Watanabe Kiiko
Bronze: Haydon Ann
Scholer Diane

Okada Tomie
Tanaka Yoshiko
Category: Mixed Doubles
Gold: Klein Erwin
Neuberger Leah
Silver: Andreadis Ivan
Haydon Ann
Bronze: Fujii Motoo
Tanaka Yoshiko

Reiter Toma
Constantinescu-Zeller Ella
Category: Men's Team
Gold: Japan:
Ogimura Ichiro
Tanaka Toshiaki
Tomita Yoshio
Tsunoda Keisuke
Silver: Czechoslovakia:
Andreadis Ivan
Stipek Ladislav
Tereba Vaclav
Vyhnanovsky Ludvik
Bronze: Romania:
Gantner Matei
Harasztosi Tiberiu
Pesch Paul
Popescu Mircea
Reiter Toma

China:
Hu Bingquan
Jiang Yongning
Tsen Huai-Kuang
Wang Chuanyao
Yang Ruihua
Category: Women's Team
Gold: Romania:
Constantinescu-Zeller Ella
Rozeanu Angelica
Silver: England:
Haydon Ann
Scholer Diane
Bronze: Japan:
Eguchi Fujie
Okada Tomie
Tanaka Yoshiko
Watanabe Kiiko

Medal Count

Rank
Country
Gold
Silver
Bronze
in total
Rank 1
Japan
Gold: 4
Silver: 3
Bronze: 7
in total: 14
Rank 2
Romania
Gold: 2
Silver:
Bronze: 3
in total: 5
Rank 3
USA
Gold: 1
Silver:
Bronze:
in total: 1
Rank 4
Czechoslovakia
Gold:
Silver: 3
Bronze: 1
in total: 4
Rank 5
England
Gold:
Silver: 2
Bronze: 1
in total: 3
Rank 6
China
Gold:
Silver:
Bronze: 1
in total: 1
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