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1938 World Table Tennis Championships

1938 edition of the World Table Tennis Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ2436633 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1938 World Table Tennis Championships were held in London from January 24 to January 29, 1938. The pool stages were held at the Royal Albert Hall with the finals at the Wembley Empire Pool and Sports Arena.

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The public source identifies “1938 World Table Tennis Championships” as 1938 edition of the World Table Tennis Championships. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around World, Table and Tennis.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with World, Table and Tennis providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2436633. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938.

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This entry incorporates text from “1938 World Table Tennis Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.