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This page lists the members inducted in the ITTF Hall of Fame — founded in 1993 — in the order as they appear in the official hall of fame maintained by the International Table Tennis Federation

International Table Tennis Federation

The International Table Tennis Federation is the governing body for all national table tennis associations.-Founding history:The ITTF was founded in 1926, the nine founding members being Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Sweden and Wales...

. The ITTF Hall of Fame includes both table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

players and officers.
The table tennis

Table tennis

players are listed with the number of gold medals achieved in the considered competitions. For more detailed information see the page of each player. The considered competitions are:

Olympic Games
Table tennis at the Summer Olympics
Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for both men and women. Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 41 medals in 24 events, including 20 gold medals.-Events:...
Table Tennis World Championships
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Seven events were included in the Championships. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in...

Inducted in 1993

Viktor Barna

Viktor Győző Barna was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player.-Personal life:...

Richard Bergmann

Richard Bergmann was an Austrian and British table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total.-Tennis career:...

Laszlo Bellak István Kelen

Istvan Kelen

István Kelen was a male table tennis player from Hungary. He won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships....

James McClure

James McClure (table tennis)

James McClure is a male former table tennis player from USA. From 1936 to 1949 he won several medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

: inducted as officer. Zoltán Mechlovits

Zoltán Mechlovits

Zoltán Mechlovits is a male former table tennis player from Hungary. From 1926 and 1929 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Miklós Szabados

Miklos Szabados

Miklós Szabados was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.Szabados won 15 World Championship titles, including the World Singles crown in 1931.-Table tennis career:...

Bohumil Váňa Mária Mednyánszky

Mária Mednyánszky

Mária Mednyánszky was a Hungarian table tennis star who became the first official women's world champion winning the single event gold medal in the first edition of the World Table Tennis Championships, held in 1926 at London. She went on to win the title for five successive years and won a...

Marie Kettnerová

Marie Kettnerová was a winner of the World Table Tennis Championships in both women's single and doubles. In singles she won in 1934 and 1935, in doubles in 1936. She was a charter member of the ITTF Hall of Fame.- References :...

Anna Sipos

Anna Sipos was a Hungarian table tennis player. She won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Table Tennis Career:Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championships...

Věra Votrubcová

Vera Votrubcova

Věra Votrubcová is a former female table tennis player from Czechoslovakia. From 1936 to 1947 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Hall of Fame:...

Inducted in 1995

Ivan Andreadis

Ivan Andreadis is a former Czechoslovak table tennis player. He won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1947 to 1957.-Hall of Fame:...

Ivor Montagu

The Honorable Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu was a British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player and apparent Soviet spy...

: inducted as officer. Ferenc Sidó

Ferenc Sido

Ferenc Sidó is a former table tennis player from Hungary. From 1947 to 1961 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Ladislav Štípek

Ladislav Štípek was a male table tennis player from Checkoslovakia. From 1947 to 1959 he won some medals in team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

František Tokár

Frantisek Tokar

František Tokár is a male former table tennis player from Czechoslovakia. From 1947 to 1957 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships....

Angelica Rozeanu

Angelica Rozeanu was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, and one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport.-Table tennis career:...

Gizella Farkas Ella Zeller

Ella Zeller

Ella Zeller was a former female table tennis player. From 1952 to 1964 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Inducted in 1997

Ichiro Ogimura

was a Japanese table tennis player. Ogimura's father died when he was two and his mother often worked too late to take care of him. As a teenager, Ogimura practiced table tennis at the hall run by Hisae Uehara in Musashino, Tokyo. He won the All-Japan National Championship and represented Japan at...

Johnny Leach

Johnny Leach was a British table tennis player. From 1947 to 1955 he won several medals in single, double, and team events at the World Table Tennis Championships.. He is currently the president of the English Table Tennis Association.-References:...

Toshiaki Tanaka

Toshiaki Tanaka is a male former table tennis player from Japan. From 1955 to 1957 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. He also won a silver medal in the team event at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1965.-References:...

Roy Evans: inducted as officer. A.K. Vint: inducted as officer. Fujie Eguchi

Fujie Eguchi

Fujie Eguchi is a former female table tennis player from Japan. From 1954 to 1959 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Kimiyo Matsuzaki

Kimiyo Matsuzaki is a former female table tennis player from Japan. From 1959 to 1963 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Inducted in 2001

Guo Yuehua

Guo Yuehua is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1976 to 1983 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships....

Jiang Jialiang

Jiang Jialiang is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1982 to 1989 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships....

Zhang Xielin

Zhang Xielin is a Chinese table-tennis player who carried the Olympic flag in 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.He was active in the 1960s and uses a rare pen-grip chopping style...

Liang Geliang

Liang Geliang is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1971 to 1979 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Cao Yanhua

Cao Yanhua is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1978 to 1985 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Nobuhiko Hasegawa

was one of the best table tennis players worldwide from 1965 to 1979.In Stockholm 1967 Nobuhiko Hasegawa won three titles in men's Single, men's team and mixed-double. In 1969 in Munich he won the men's team event against the German team with the result of 5:3...

Inducted in 2003

Jan-Ove Waldner

Jan-Ove Waldner is a Swedish table tennis player. He is known as "the Mozart of table tennis" and is a legend in his native Sweden as well as in China. In China he is known as 老瓦 Lao Wa - "Old Wa" or 常青树 Chang Qing Shu - "Evergreen"...

Jörgen Persson

Jörgen Persson is a Swedish table tennis player. In two memorable World Table Tennis Championships finals he faced fellow Swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter....

Peter Karlsson

Peter Karlsson (table tennis)

Peter Karlsson , is a table tennis player. He was 1991 World Champion in men's doubles , and 2000 European Champion in men's singles.-Commitment:...

Wang Tao

Wang Tao (table tennis)

Wang Tao is a retired Chinese table tennis player, the current head coach of the Bayi Gongshang club in the China Table Tennis Super League, a major general of the People's Liberation Army, and a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee.Wang Tao is left-handed, and uses a shakehand...

Deng Yaping

Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997...

Wang Nan Ge Xinai

Ge Xinai

Ge Xinai is a former female table tennis player from China. From 1975 to 1979 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships....

Liu Wei

Liu Wei (table tennis)

Liu Wei is a former female table tennis player from China. From 1989 to 1996 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships. She also achieved a silver Olympic medal in...

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