Everyone who writes the history of international table tennis will mention Mr. Ivor Montagu, one of the founders of ITTF. Because almost everything important in table tennis is related to him. He is one of the founders of table tennis rules, the organizer of the world table tennis championship and an active agitator in table tennis. It is because of him that table tennis has developed from a game entertainment activity to a competitive sport, which has created a new era of international competition.
Mr. montague 19O5 was born in a noble family in England and took an active part in table tennis during his college years. 1926 2 1 year-old, participated in the table tennis competition held in Berlin and the forum for the establishment of the International Table Tennis Federation. Because he is fluent in two languages, enthusiastic and humorous, and organized, he attracted the attention of the participants and served as the chairman of ITTF Advisory Committee. From 65438 to 0937, Mr montague became the first president of ITTF.
There is no way to test who invented table tennis. But it is generally believed that its birthplace may be Britain. At first, you may just play with very rough equipment at the dinner table. It was not until 1900 that plastic table tennis was invented, replacing chewing gum and cork balls which were widely used at that time, and the sport gradually became popular in Britain and Europe. The early production of the ball set is called Gossimar, whave-Whaff (imitating the sound of the racket rubbing against the air) or Ping-Pong (the Chinese word for table tennis must come from this), and it is said that the patent trademark has been registered (see the picture below). 1926, five countries held a meeting in Berlin, which resulted in the establishment of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). ITTF now has 140 member countries, and holds world championships every two years. Before 1960, almost all the world champions were won by players from Hungary, France and Sweden. 1In the early 1960s, Japan suddenly rose and won the leading position in table tennis in the world. However, from1mid-1960s to1mid-1980s, China often won various championships, while Japanese, Swedish and some Eastern European countries only won one or two championships intermittently. 1978 The famous "ping pong diplomacy" between China and the United States pushed this movement onto the historical stage. With table tennis becoming an Olympic sport in the late 1960s and 1980s, China's absolute superiority in table tennis was finally broken by Korean and Swedish players.