1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's singles

none 1959 Men's singles 1957 1961 1959 World Table Tennis Championships The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles was the 25th edition of the men's singles championship.http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/world-table-tennis-championships-medal-winners.html List of Winners All About Tennishttp://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChMSingles2.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20120412102459/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChMSingles2.pdf dead 2012-04-12 1959 results International Table Tennis Federation Jung Kuo-tuan defeated Ferenc Sidó in the final, winning three sets to one to secure the title, became the first ever Chinese player to win a gold medal in the competition.Montague Trevor A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700 2004 The Bath Press 0-316-72645-1 Results Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final 250 20 HUN Zoltán Berczik 21 21 21 CHN Li Jen Su 5 12 12 CHN Jung Kuo-tuan 21 17 21 21 JPN Nobuya Hoshino 18 21 16 14 CHN Yang Jai-Hua 21 21 21 South Vietnam Trần Văn Liễu 17 19 8 USA Dick Miles 11 26 21 21 CHN Hsu Yin-Sheng 21 24 13 13 CHN Wang Chuan-Yao 19 21 21 26 22 HUN Zoltán Bubonyi 21 5 13 28 20 HUN Ferenc Sidó 19 21 19 21 21 JPN Teruo Murakami 21 15 21 7 15 CHN Chuang Chia-Fu 14+ 8+ 9+ 7+ 13+ South Vietnam Mai Văn Hòa 13 6 15 10 8 JPN Ichiro Ogimura 21 21 16 21 SWE Tony Larsson 17 11 21 16 HUN Berczik 21 15 19 21 5 CHN Kuo-tuan 17 21 21 18 21 CHN Jai-Hua 19 18 17 USA Miles 21 21 21 CHN Chuan-Yao 13 21 16 HUN Sidó 21 23 21 CHN Chia-Fu 19 18 20 JPN Ogimura 21 21 22 CHN Kuo-tuan 22 23 12 21 21 USA Miles 20 25 21 18 8 HUN Sidó 21 21 11 12 21 JPN Ogimura 16 13 21 21 18 CHN Kuo-tuan 19 21 21 21 HUN Sidó 21 12 15 14 + Time limit rule applies See also List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists References - Category:Men's events at the World Table Tennis Championships