Table tennis at the 1972 Summer Paralympics

Table tennis at the IV Paralympic Games
Paralympic Table tennis

Table tennis at the 1972 Summer Paralympics consisted of nineteen events, ten for men and nine for women.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	4	3	1	8
2	Austria (AUT)	4	1	2	7
3	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	0	3
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	4	8	14
5	Switzerland (SUI)	2	1	3	6
6	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	3	5
7	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
8	Israel (ISR)	1	0	2	3
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
10	France (FRA)	0	1	4	5
	United States (USA)	0	1	4	5
12	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
15	Canada (CAN)	0	0	3	3
16	Norway (NOR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (16 entries)		19	17	36	72

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles 1A	Hans Rosenast  Switzerland	Nilsson  Sweden	Rolf Zumkehr  Switzerland
			Rainer Küschall  Switzerland
Singles 1B	Sin Nam Song  South Korea	Daniel Jeannin  France	Stephen Bradshaw  Great Britain
			Paul Suijkerbuijk  Netherlands
Singles 2	Tae Am Choi  South Korea	Leslie Lam  Hong Kong	Giuseppe Trieste  Italy
			Henry Dahlgren  Norway
Singles 3	Fritz Krimmel  West Germany	Heinz Simon  West Germany	Andre Hennaert  France
			G. Monoghan  Great Britain
Singles 4	Baruch Hagai  Israel	Michael Dempsey  United States	Triche  France
			P. Lyall  Great Britain
Doubles 1A	Switzerland (SUI) Rainer Küschall Hans Rosenast	West Germany (FRG) Konkel Sackerer	West Germany (FRG) Hans Lubbering Edund Weber
			United States (USA) Nichol Rod Vleiger
Doubles 1B	West Germany (FRG) B. Boerstler G. Laner	West Germany (FRG) Wolfgang Koch Steiner	Great Britain (GBR) Stephen Bradshaw T. Taylor
			Netherlands (NED) Hans Pimmelar Paul Suijkerbuijk
Teams 2	West Germany (FRG)	Great Britain (GBR)	Sweden (SWE)
			Hong Kong (HKG)
Teams 3	West Germany (FRG)	Italy (ITA) Giovanni Ferraris Oliver Venturi	Sweden (SWE)
			Austria (AUT)
Teams 4	South Korea (KOR)	Sweden (SWE)	United States (USA)
			Great Britain (GBR)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles 1A	Aria de Vries-Noordam  Netherlands	Ursula Schatz  Switzerland	Demerakas  Canada
			Mati Angel  Israel
Singles 1B	Rosa Sicari  Italy	Jane Blackburn  Great Britain	Tora Lysoe  Norway
			Tournier  France
Singles 2	Rosa Schweizer  Austria	Ilse Scharf  Austria	Maguy Ramousse  France
			G. Matthews  Great Britain
Singles 3	Ingrid Voboril  Austria	J. Swann  Great Britain	Michal Escapa  Israel
			Gwen Buck  Great Britain
Singles 4	Carol Bryant  Great Britain	L. Verbrauwe  Belgium	Irene Schmidt  Netherlands
			O'Brien  Great Britain
Doubles 1A-1B	Great Britain (GBR) Barbara Anderson Jane Blackburn	Norway (NOR) A. Klausen Tora Lysoe	Switzerland (SUI) Gilberte Brasey Ursula Schatz
			Canada (CAN) Demerakas S. Long
Teams 2	Austria (AUT)	Ireland (IRL)	United States (USA)
			Great Britain (GBR)
Teams 3	Austria (AUT)	Great Britain (GBR)	Canada (CAN)
			United States (USA)
Teams 4	Netherlands (NED) Loes Lekx Irene Schmidt	Sweden (SWE)	Austria (AUT)

References

• Table Tennis at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (Heidelberg) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)