The World Table Tennis Championships first took place in 1926 in London, England. However, since the year 2000, the Championship has been split into two separate competitions.
Team events are now held in even numbered years, whilst individual events (singles and doubles) are held in odd numbered years.
So 2022 was the year for the team events to be contested, and Chengdu, China staged the event from 30 September to 9 October 2022.
Team Event Cups
by courtesy of the ITTF
The World Table Tennis Championships 2022 events were…
The Swaythling Cup was donated in 1926 by Lady Baroness Swaythling, mother of
Ivor Montagu, whilst the Corbillon Cup was donated in 1933 by Marcel Corbillon, President of the French TTA, for the first Women’s Team event at the 1934 World Championships.
However, the original Corbillon Cup disappeared just after World War Two, so the German Table Tennis Federation paid for an exact replica in 1949 (the…
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