
The Chinese international Zhuang Zedong successfully defended his World champion’s title in Prague after winning the final of the singles event against his teammate – Li Furong. The Swedish star Hans Alser was the most successful among the European players. He finished the year at the #5 spot in the World Rankings.
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Zhuang Zedong
Li Furong
Zhang Xielin
Wang Zhiliang
Hans Alser
Hu Daoben
Ichiro Ogimura
Yu Changchun
Hiroshi Takahashi
Zoltan Berczik
Vojislav Markovic
Kei Konaka
Zhou Lansun
Koji Kimura
Zdenek Svab
Yang Ruihua
Jung Kil-hwa
Siegfried Lemke
Liao Wen-ting
Bernard Bukiet
Norbert van de Walle
Radu Negulescu
Robert Fields
Keiichi Miki
Wang Jiasheng
Ivan Andreadis
Kim Chang-ho
Chen Hsieh-chung
Laszlo Földy
Ubiraci R. da Costa
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N – Nationality WC – World Championships AC – Asian Championships
& other flags – Pro Tour events

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