1997 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1997 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Manchester from April 24 to May 5, 1997.^[1][2] This event was notable as the winner Jan-Ove Waldner won without losing a single set in all matches played, this was the first time that this occurred.^[3]

Results

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	China Ding Song Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Ma Wenge Wang Tao	France Nicolas Chatelain Patrick Chila Damien Eloi Jean-Philippe Gatien Christophe Legout	South Korea Chu Kyo-sung Kim Taek-soo Lee Chul-seung Oh Sang-eun Yoo Nam-kyu
Corbillon Cup Women's Team	China Deng Yaping Li Ju Wang Chen Wang Nan Yang Ying	North Korea Kim Hyon-hui Tu Jong-sil Wi Bok-Sun	Germany Christina Fischer Olga Nemeș Elke Schall Jie Schöpp Nicole Struse

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Jan-Ove Waldner	Vladimir Samsonov	Yan Sen
			Kong Linghui
Women's singles	Deng Yaping	Wang Nan	Li Ju
			Wu Na
Men's doubles	Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang	Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner	Damien Eloi Jean-Philippe Gatien
			Kōji Matsushita Hiroshi Shibutani
Women's doubles	Deng Yaping Yang Ying	Li Ju Wang Nan	Chai Po Wa Qiao Yunping
			Cheng Hongxia Wang Hui
Mixed doubles	Liu Guoliang Wu Na	Kong Linghui Deng Yaping	Wang Liqin Wang Nan
			Chiang Peng-lung Chen Jing