46^th World Table Tennis Championships

Osaka, Japan · April 23 - May 6, 2001

Osaka, Japan, April 26 – The ITTF Annual General Meeting today selected the host cities for the coming World Championships.

The ITTF had already decided to divide the World Championships so that the singles and doubles events will be played in 2003, and the team event in 2004.

Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) and France (Paris) were bidding for 2003 – and Paris won. 73 delegates voted for France, 45 for Brazil.

Brazil originally also was bidding for 2004, along with Qatar (Doha), but before the selection Brazil decided to concentrate on the bid for 2003 – without success, since France got the majority of the votes. This means that the team event in 2004 will be in Doha, Qatar.

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