title: 1956 World Table Tennis Championships
text: # 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 |
  