1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's singles

none 1979 Men's singles 1977 1981 1979 World Table Tennis Championships The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles was the 35th edition of the men's singles championship.https://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 1979 results International Table Tennis Federation Seiji Ono defeated Guo Yuehua in the final Montague Trevor A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700 2004 The Bath Press 0-316-72645-1 after Yuehua was forced to retire during the fourth set due to leg cramps.https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/07/archives/smashes-and-cheers-mark-table-tennis-16-chinese-semifinalists.html PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 6 New York Times 7 May 1979 Results Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final 250 20 CHN Guo Yuehua 25 23 21 YUG Dragutin Šurbek 23 21 19 JPN Norio Takashima 13 22 23 21 HUN János Takács 21 20 21 17 CHN Li Zhenshi 21 15 29 21 JPN Hideo Gotoh 11 21 27 17 HUN Gábor Gergely 19 21 24 18 22 CHN Shi Zhihao 21 9 22 21 20 CHN Lu Yaohua 21 21 13 21 HUN Tibor Klampár 15 16 21 12 JPN Seiji Ono 21 21 13 25 CHN Huang Liang 16 16 21 23 CZE Josef Dvoracek 17 23 21 21 ENG Desmond Douglas 21 21 10 7 CHN Liang Geliang 21 21 21 HUN István Jónyer 18 18 17 CHN Yuehua 21 21 21 JPN Takashima 15 14 17 CHN Zhenshi 22 21 21 21 HUN Gergely 20 10 14 17 CHN Lu Yaohua 18 21 18 21 16 JPN Ono 21 13 21 18 21 TCH Dvoracek 9 18 17 CHN Liang Geliang 21 21 21 CHN Guo Yuehua 21 21 17 21 CHN Li Zhenshi 17 16 21 15 JPN Ono 13 21 21 12 21 CHN Liang Geliang 21 19 15 21 15 CHN Guo Yuehua 23 17 21 1+ JPN Ono 25 21 18 2 + retired injured See also List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists References - Category:Men's events at the World Table Tennis Championships