title: 1959 World Table Tennis Championships
text: # 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 |
  