1977 World Table Tennis Championships

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. 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 Goldstien, 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
Men's team	China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Wang Jun	Japan Tetsuo Inoue Mitsuru Kohno Masahiro Maehara Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka	Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Ake Gronlund Kjell Johansson Roger Lagerfeldt Ulf Thorsell
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	Mitsuru Kohno	Guo Yuehua	Liang Geliang
			Huang Liang
Women's singles	Pak Yung-Sun	Zhang Li	Ge Xin'ai
			Zhang Deying
Men's doubles	Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang	Huang Liang Lu Yuansheng	Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson
			Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek
Women's doubles	Pak Yong-Ok Yang Ying	Zhu Xiangyun Wei Lijie	Zhang Li Ge Xinai
			Lee Ki-Won Kim Soon-Ok
Mixed doubles	Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret	Tokio Tasaka Sachiko Yokota	Li Zhenshi Yan Guili
			Lee Sang-Kuk Lee Ki-Won

References

External links

• ITTF Museum