The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Munich from April 17 to April 27, 1969, marking the 30th edition of the contest.

During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism' and were denied places at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships and 1969 World Table Tennis Championships. Players such as Jung Kuo-tuan were persecuted and he committed suicide in 1968. Had China competed in both championships and not lost the impetus gained in the previous decade they would surely have dominated the World Championships.

Medalists

Team

EventGoldSilverBronze
Swaythling Cup Men's TeamJapan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tetsuo Inoue Shigeo Itoh Kenji Kasai Mitsuru KonoWest Germany Bernt Jansen Wilfried Lieck Martin Ness Eberhard SchölerYugoslavia Zlatko Cordas Istvan Korpa Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek Edvard Vecko
Corbillon Cup Women's teamSoviet Union Laima Amelina Svetlana Grinberg Rita Pogosova Zoja RudnovaRomania Maria Alexandru Carmen Crișan Eleonora MihalcaJapan Saeko Hirota Yasuko Konno Toshiko Kowada Sachiko Morisawa

Individual

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's singlesJapan Shigeo ItohWest Germany Eberhard SchölerJapan Kenji Kasai
Japan Tokio Tasaka
Women's singlesJapan Toshiko KowadaEast Germany Gabriele GeisslerRomania Maria Alexandru
Japan Miho Hamada
Men's doublesSweden Hans Alsér Sweden Kjell JohanssonJapan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Japan Tokio TasakaJapan Shigeo Itoh Japan Mitsuru Kono
Soviet Union Anatoly Amelin Soviet Union Stanislav Gomozkov
Women's doublesSoviet Union Svetlana Grinberg Soviet Union Zoja RudnovaRomania Maria Alexandru Romania Eleonora MihalcaSouth Korea Choi Hwan-Hwan South Korea Choi Jung-Sook
Czechoslovakia Jitka Karlíková Czechoslovakia Ilona Voštová
Mixed doublesJapan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Japan Yasuko KonnoJapan Mitsuru Kono Japan Saeko HirotaJapan Shigeo Itoh Japan Toshiko Kowada
England Denis Neale England Mary Shannon-Wright

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