Sports
Table Tennis
Also Known As Ping-Pong
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Table tennis grew out of an English parlour game of the 1880s and 1890s played on dining tables with improvised equipment, later marketed under names including Ping-Pong. The International Table Tennis Federation, its governing body, was founded in 1926; the first World Table Tennis Championships followed in London the same year.
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Origin YearMarks the founding of the International Table Tennis Federation and the first World Championships. The informal nineteenth-century English parlour-game precursor has no single securely documented codification date in the sources checked this wave. Originating RegionEngland, where the game grew out of a Victorian parlour pastime played on dining tables in the 1880s and 1890s before its international governing body was founded in 1926. 1 International Governing BodyInternational Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded 1926, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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