1956 World Table Tennis Championships
# 1956 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from April 2 to April 11, 1956.

## Medalists

### Team

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Swaythling Cup Men's Team | Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda | Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský | China Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Tsen Huai-Kuang Wang Chuanyao Yang Jai-Hua |
| Swaythling Cup Men's Team | Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda | Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský | Romania Matei Gantner Tiberiu Harasztosi Paul Pesch Mircea Popescu Toma Reiter |
| Corbillon Cup Women's Team | Romania Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller | England Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Jill Rook | Japan Fujie Eguchi Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka Kiiko Watanabe |

### Individual

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's singles | Ichiro Ogimura | Toshiaki Tanaka | Yoshio Tomita |
| Men's singles | Ichiro Ogimura | Toshiaki Tanaka | Akio Nohira |
| Women's singles | Tomie Okawa | Kiiko Watanabe | Fujie Eguchi |
| Women's singles | Tomie Okawa | Kiiko Watanabe | Ella Zeller |
| Men's doubles | Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita | Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek | Václav Tereba Ludvik Vyhnanovsky |
| Men's doubles | Ichiro Ogimura Yoshio Tomita | Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek | Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda |
| Women's doubles | Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller | Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe | Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka |
| Women's doubles | Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller | Fujie Eguchi Kiiko Watanabe | Ann Haydon Diane Rowe |
| Mixed doubles | Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger | Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon | Motoo Fujii Yoshiko Tanaka |
| Mixed doubles | Erwin Klein Leah Neuberger | Ivan Andreadis Ann Haydon | Toma Reiter Ella Zeller |
