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

Medalists

Team

EventGoldSilverBronze
Swaythling Cup Men's TeamJapan Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro OgimuraHungary Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc SidóChina Chiang Yung-Ning Rong Guotuan Wang Chuanyao Xu Yinsheng Yang Jai-Hua
South Vietnam Lê Văn Tiết Mai Văn Hòa Trần Cảnh Được Trần Văn Liễu
Corbillon Cup Women's TeamJapan Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko YamaizumiSouth Korea Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyung-ja Hwang Yool-ja Lee Chong-HiChina Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying Ye Peiqiong

Individual

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's SinglesChina Rong GuotuanHungary Ferenc SidóUnited States Richard Miles
Japan Ichiro Ogimura
Women's SinglesJapan Kimiyo MatsuzakiJapan Fujie EguchiChina Qiu Zhonghui
Hungary Éva Kóczián
Men's doublesJapan Teruo Murakami Japan Ichiro OgimuraCzechoslovakia Ladislav Štípek Czechoslovakia Ludvik VyhnanovskyHungary Zoltán Berczik Hungary László Földy
Sweden Hans Alsér Sweden Ake Rakell
Women's doublesJapan Taeko Namba Japan Kazuko YamaizumiJapan Fujie Eguchi Japan Kimiyo MatsuzakiEngland Ann Haydon England Diane Rowe
China Qiu Zhonghui China Sun Meiying
Mixed doublesJapan Ichiro Ogimura Japan Fujie EguchiJapan Teruo Murakami Japan Kimiyo MatsuzakiChina Wang Chuanyao China Sun Meiying
Hungary Zoltán Berczik Hungary Gizi Lantos-Farkas

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