1959 World Table Tennis Championships
# 1959 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund from March 27 to April 5, 1959.

## Medalists

### Team

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Swaythling Cup Men's Team | Japan Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura | Hungary Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc Sidó | China Chiang Yung-Ning Rong Guotuan Wang Chuanyao Xu Yinsheng Yang Jai-Hua |
| Swaythling Cup Men's Team | Japan Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura | Hungary Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc Sidó | South Vietnam Lê Văn Tiết Mai Văn Hòa Trần Cảnh Được Trần Văn Liễu |
| Corbillon Cup Women's Team | Japan Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi | South Korea Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyung-ja Hwang Yool-ja Lee Chong-Hi | China Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying Ye Peiqiong |

### Individual

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's Singles | Rong Guotuan | Ferenc Sidó | Richard Miles |
| Men's Singles | Rong Guotuan | Ferenc Sidó | Ichiro Ogimura |
| Women's Singles | Kimiyo Matsuzaki | Fujie Eguchi | Qiu Zhonghui |
| Women's Singles | Kimiyo Matsuzaki | Fujie Eguchi | Éva Kóczián |
| Men's doubles | Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura | Ladislav Štípek Ludvik Vyhnanovsky | Zoltán Berczik László Földy |
| Men's doubles | Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura | Ladislav Štípek Ludvik Vyhnanovsky | Hans Alsér Ake Rakell |
| Women's doubles | Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi | Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki | Ann Haydon Diane Rowe |
| Women's doubles | Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi | Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki | Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying |
| Mixed doubles | Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi | Teruo Murakami Kimiyo Matsuzaki | Wang Chuanyao Sun Meiying |
| Mixed doubles | Ichiro Ogimura Fujie Eguchi | Teruo Murakami Kimiyo Matsuzaki | Zoltán Berczik Gizi Lantos-Farkas |
