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Table tennis at the 1974 Asian Games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ7673295 ↗
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Table tennis was contested at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, Iran from 8 to 15 September 1974.

Table tennis had team, doubles and singles events for men and women, as well as a mixed doubles competition. China finished first in medal table with six gold medals.

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This entry incorporates text from “Table tennis at the 1974 Asian Games” 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.