24 April - 1 May 2006 in Bremen, Germany
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Organization/Partners
WTTC 2006 - outstanding success for table tennis
The immediate reaction is that the 2006 LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships, held in Bremen, Germany has been an outstanding success. Looking back over a hectic week, that was the reaction from Adham Sharara, President of the International Table Tennis Federation and from Thomas Weikert (photo), the President of the German Table Tennis Association. more »
Teams
Sheer Class, Men's Team Title Retained by China in Awesome Fashion
China is the old and the new champion. In the Men's Final the reigning champion defeated Korea Republic in an outstanding performance 3-0. more »
Supporting Programme
ITTF President Adham Sharara visits Table Tennis Youth Camp
ITTF President Adham Sharara visits Table Tennis Youth Camp and owns now a 3-star German table tennis sports certificate. more »
Teams
Korea beats Hong Kong 3:0 in the semi-final
Korea beat Hong Kong three-nil in the semi-final of the men's event at the 2006 LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships in Bremen on Sunday 30th April. It is the first time Korea has ever reached the final of a Men's Team event at a World Championships. more »
Teams
China Crowned World Champions in Women's Team Event in Bremen
China retained the Corbillon Cup at the 2006 LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships in Bremen late in the afternoon of Sunday 30th April 2006 when they beat Hong Kong in the final. China won by three matches to one. more »
Teams
China Reaches Final in Men's Team Event in Bremen
China, the defending champions, reached the final of the men's event at the 2006 LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships in Bremen on Sunday 30th April 2006 when they beat Germany three-one at the semi-final stage. more »
Special Feature
ITTF memberships hits 202 in 2006
Special Feature
ITTF introduces equal prize money for men and women
Special Feature
Racket Doping: Japan’s Women’s Team in semi-finals despite the deduction of points
China’s and Japan’s Women’s Teams are the first two semi-finalists of the 2006 LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships. China defeated the North Korean Team while selecting their best players and without losing a single set with 3:0. Japan stood up to Hungary with 3:1. more »
Supporting Programme
Exhibition - ITTF Museum as Guest in Bremen
When did table tennis become an Olympic discipline? Who became World Champion in 1930? How long did the longest exchange take? These all are questions that will be answered in the ITTF Museum of the International Table Tennis Federation during the exhibition in the course of the 48. LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships in the AWD Dome in Bremen. more »
Special Feature
ETTU Congress: DTTB will host Europe Top 12 2008 and European Championships 2009
The DEUTSCHER TISCHTENNIS-BUND (DTTB), organizer of the 2006 World Team Table Tennis Championships 2006, will host the European Championships 2009. more »
Supporting Programme
Nearly 2.500 pupils during school’s day in the AWD-Dome Bremen
The noise was the proof: nearly 2.500 school-children from any kind of school in the northern region of Germany came with their teachers to school’s day to the AWD-Dome in Bremen during the 2006 LIEBHERR World Team Table Tennis Championships in table tennis. Informations to improve in their professions were given to the teachers by school-sport-experts from TTVN. more »
Supporting Programme
Metal tuns became table tennis advertising barrels
Teams
Mr. "Sixty Per Cent" Waldner beats Michael Maze
Write the man off at your peril. Jan-Ove Waldner is once again displaying his class on the world stage, he is the man for the big event and at the 2006 LIEBHERR World Table Tennis Team Championships in Bremen he is showing, that at the age of forty, the appetite for the big time is as strong as ever. more »
