New date– same Fun: Call for Europe to join World Table Tennis Day

March 3, 2023
3:13 pm
International Events

World Table Tennis Day (WTTD) has been celebrated annually in April since 2015. It is the day we celebrate table tennis as well as the universality and social inclusiveness the sport represents. Starting this year and moving forward we will celebrate WTTD on 23 April honouring Ivor MONTAGU organiser of the first World Table Tennis Championships in 1926 and the founder and first president of the ITTF.

ITTF Foundation calls upon the European Table Tennis Union to join them in celebrating WTTD 2023.

“We invite you to organise a Highlight Event focusing on sustainability for people planet and prosperity through the sport ” stated ITTF Foundation Director Leandro OLVECH.

The ITTF Foundation will:

WTTD celebrates the joy of playing table tennis for fun bringing people together focusing less on competition and more on participation and enjoyment.

Here you have the link with information regarding World Table Tennis day from the foundation website https://ittffoundation.org/programmes/tt4all/world-table-tennis-day

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