The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Birmingham at the then newly opened National Exhibition Centre, from March 26 to April 5, 1977.
Organisation During these Championships, players and officials stayed at the Student Accommodation at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, from where coaches took all participants backwards and forwards between here and the NEC daily for the two weeks of the championships. Although run by the ETTA for the ITTF, headed by Mr Maurice Goldstein, Management, Tournament & Coaching Committee members from the BDTTA (Birmingham & District Table Tennis Association) played a major part with six months of preparatory work prior to this event, the first to be held at the NEC. It was also from the BDTTA that many gave freely of their time to help run this championship, through their expertise of running many other local annual table tennis tournaments, such at the 3 star Midlands Open and Birmingham Closed.
Results Team Swaythling CupMen's Team Guo YuehuaHuang LiangLi ZhenshiLiang GeliangWang Jun Tetsuo InoueMitsuru KonoMasahiro MaeharaNorio TakashimaTokio TasakaStellan BengtssonAke GronlundKjell JohanssonRoger LagerfeldtUlf Thorsell Corbillon CupWomen's team Ge XinaiZhang DeyingZhang LiZhu Xiangyun Chung Hyun-sookKim Soon-okLee AilesaLee Ki WonKim Chang-AeLi Song SukPak Yong-OkPak Yung-Sun
Individual Men's singles Mitsuru Kohno Guo Yuehua Liang Geliang Huang LiangWomen's singles Pak Yung-Sun Zhang Li Ge Xin'ai Zhang DeyingMen's doubles Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Huang Liang Lu Yuansheng Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson Antun Stipančić Dragutin ŠurbekWomen's doubles Pak Yong-ok Yang Ying Zhu Xiangyun Wei Lijie Zhang Li Ge Xin'ai Lee Ki Won Kim Soon-okMixed doubles Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret Tokio Tasaka Sachiko Yokota Li Zhenshi Yan Guili Lee Sang-kuk Lee Ki Won
References
External links ITTF Museum