The 2023 World Table Tennis Championships was the 57th edition of World Table Tennis Championships and held in Durban, South Africa.^[2]

It was the first such event set to be held in Africa since 1939 Championship held in Egypt.^[3]

Bid

South Africa was chosen as host after defeating Düsseldorf, Germany by 90 to 39 votes.^[4]

Schedule

The tournament was played over nine days.^[5]

Medal summary

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Fan Zhendong	Wang Chuqin	Liang Jingkun
			Ma Long
Women's singles details	Sun Yingsha	Chen Meng	Hina Hayata
			Chen Xingtong
Men's doubles details	Wang Chuqin Fan Zhendong	Jang Woo-jin Lim Jong-hoon	Lee Sang-su Cho Dae-seong
			Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Franziska
Women's doubles details	Chen Meng Wang Yidi	Shin Yu-bin Jeon Ji-hee	Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu
			Miyu Nagasaki Miyuu Kihara
Mixed doubles details	Wang Chuqin Sun Yingsha	Hina Hayata Tomokazu Harimoto	Wong Chun-ting Doo Hoi Kem
			Kuai Man Lin Shidong

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	2	5	12
2	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	1	3
3	Japan (JPN)	0	1	2	3
4	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		5	5	10	20

Participating nations

A total of 306 players from 59 nations participated.^[6] China, Germany, Japan, and South Korea had a maximum of five players for each singles event, four players for each doubles event.

Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total number of players
Algeria	1	1	0	0	2	2
Argentina	3	2	2	0	4	5
Australia	4	1	4	0	2	5
Austria	3	3	4	2	4	7
Belgium	4	0	3	0	0	4
Brazil	3	2	2	2	4	5
Canada	2	2	2	2	2	6
Chile	1	2	2	2	4	4
China	5	5	4	4	4	12
Cameroon	0	1	0	0	0	1
Croatia	3	3	0	2	0	6
Czech Republic	2	2	3	3	0	7
Denmark	2	0	1	0	0	2
Ecuador	1	0	2	0	0	2
Egypt	4	4	4	4	4	10
England	4	1	4	1	2	5
Spain	1	2	1	1	2	3
Finland	1	0	0	0	0	1
France	4	5	4	4	4	10
Germany	5	5	4	4	4	10
Greece	1	1	0	0	0	2
Hong Kong	3	5	4	4	4	9
Hungary	2	4	3	2	2	7
India	4	4	4	4	4	11
Iran	4	0	4	0	0	4
Italy	2	4	2	4	4	7
Japan	5	5	4	4	4	10
Kazakhstan	1	3	4	2	4	8
South Korea	5	5	4	4	4	12
Saudi Arabia	1	0	2	0	0	2
Luxembourg	0	2	2	2	4	4
Mexico	1	3	1	2	2	4
Mauritius	0	1	0	0	0	1
New Caledonia	1	0	0	0	0	1
Nigeria	4	3	4	4	2	8
New Zealand	2	0	0	0	0	2
Paraguay	1	0	0	0	0	1
Poland	2	2	3	2	4	7
Portugal	4	2	2	2	2	6
Puerto Rico	2	2	2	2	2	4
French Polynesia	1	0	0	0	0	1
Qatar	0	0	2	0	0	2
Romania	3	4	3	4	4	7
South Africa	3	3	4	4	4	8
Senegal	1	0	0	0	0	1
Singapore	3	4	4	4	4	9
Slovenia	2	1	1	2	0	4
Serbia	0	3	0	0	2	4
Switzerland	0	1	0	0	0	1
Slovakia	2	3	2	3	4	6
Sweden	5	3	4	2	2	8
Thailand	0	3	0	2	0	3
Chinese Taipei	5	4	4	4	4	10
Turkey	0	2	0	4	4	6
Ukraine	2	3	0	0	2	6
United States	1	3	1	4	4	8
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	2	0	2
Wales	0	1	0	0	0	1
Zambia	0	0	0	2	0	2
Total	126	125	116	106	118	306
Nations	48	45	40	37	36	59