1926 World Table Tennis Championships

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The 1st World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from December 6 to December 11, 1926.{{cite web |url=http://old.ittf.com/museum/results/WorldChresults.html |title=World Championships Results |work=ITTF Museum |access-date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424073611/http://old.ittf.com/museum/results/WorldChresults.html |archive-date=2017-04-24 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://old.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events4.asp?Competition_ID=1 |title=ITTF Statistics |work=ittf.com |access-date=13 April 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The championships were originally held as the European Championships which was the same year that the International Table Tennis Federation was formed. It was retrospectively designated as the first World Championships.{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 310|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}