The 2023 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships will be staged in Durban, South Africa, after National Associations voted during the 2020 ITTF AGM held on Monday 28th September.
It’s an historic first time that the ITTF’s most prestigious event is being held in South Africa and the first time on the African continent since Cairo in 1939.
Durban won 90 votes (69.77%) to beat off competition from the other candidate city, Düsseldorf, Germany, who won 39 votes (30.23%).
Düsseldorf had been bidding to stage the event again following the resounding success of the 2017 edition.
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