The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships (31st) were held in Nagoya from March 28 to April 7, 1971. The Chinese players returned following a lengthy absence.
The nations represented were Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People's Republic of China, England, West Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Romania, the Soviet Union, Sweden and Yugoslavia.
Medalists
Team Swaythling CupMen's Team Li FurongLi JingguangLiang GeliangXi EntingZhuang Zedong Nobuhiko HasegawaTetsuo InoueShigeo ItohMitsuru KonoTokio TasakaZlatko CordasMilivoj KarakaševićIstvan KorpaAntun StipančićDragutin Šurbek Corbillon CupWomen's team Yasuko KonnoToshiko KowadaEmiko OhbaYukie Ohzeki Li LiLin HuiqingLin MeiqunZheng MinzhiChoi Jung-SookChung Hyun-sookLee AilesaNa In-Sook
Individual Men's singles Stellan Bengtsson Shigeo Itoh Xi Enting Dragutin ŠurbekWomen's singles Lin Huiqing Zheng Minzhi Ilona Vostova Li LiMen's doubles István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Liang Geliang Zhuang Zedong Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tokio Tasaka Katsuyuki Abe Yujiro ImanoWomen's doubles Lin Huiqing Zheng Minzhi Mieko Hirano Reiko Sakamoto Miho Hamada Yukie Ohzeki Yukiko Kawamorita Setsuko KoboriMixed doubles Zhang Xielin Lin Huiqing Antun Stipančić Maria Alexandru Eberhard Schöler Diane Schöler Tokuyasu Nishii Mieko Fukuno
See also Ping-pong diplomacy
References
External links ITTF Museum