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Ma held the world number 1 ranking for a total of 64 months (and 34 consecutive months from March 2015), the most by any man in the history of table tennis. [15] He won the World Championship in men's singles in 2015 , 2017 and 2019 .
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists. 5 languages. Deutsch; ... 1: 1: Totals (24 entries) 57 57 114 228; Women's doubles. Year Host city Gold Silver Bronze
In April 2011, he was replaced as number 1 by Wang Hao. At the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam, Boll won his first singles medal in that competition, a bronze medal, after being beaten 4:1 by world champion, Zhang Jike. During this championship, Boll declined to compete in doubles and team matches, focussing instead on the ...
China's men's team holds a record 23 world team championship titles. In the 1950s, Japan's women team was a force to be reckoned with winning a total of 8 titles. The Chinese women started their strong grip on the world team championships from the 1970s onwards. They have only lost twice since 1975. China holds 23 women's team titles.
Jan-Ove Waldner [a] (Swedish: [ˈjɑːn uːvɛ ˈvǎldnɛr]; born 3 October 1965), [1] [2] in Sweden commonly J-O Waldner or simply mononymously as J-O (Swedish: [ˈjîː.(j)uː]), is a Swedish former professional table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis."
William John Bayley (born 17 January 1988) is a British professional Paralympic table tennis player, ranked world number 1. He is the 2016 Summer Paralympics Games gold medallist and the 2014 World Champion. From September 2019 Bayley participated in the seventeenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Janette Manrara.
Although both a "Table Tennis Association" and a "Ping Pong Association" existed by 1910, [12] a new Table Tennis Association was founded in 1921, and renamed the English Table Tennis Association in 1926. [13] The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) followed in 1926. [1] [14] London hosted the first official World Championships in 1926.
The men's singles competition of the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 20 to 28 May 2023. [2] The event was played as a straight knockout. All singles matches were best of 7 games. [3] By making the final, Fan Zhendong retained the ITTF no. 1 singles ranking. Wang Chuqin and Ma Long were also in contention for the ITTF no. 1 ...