The 1938 World Table Tennis Championships were held from January 24-29 in London ( UK ).
Medalists
| Discharge | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's Singles | Bohumil Vanya | Richard Bergman | Victor Barna |
| Tibor Hazy | |||
| Women's Singles | Gertrude Pritzi | Vlasta Depetrisova | Vera Votrubtsova |
| Betty Henry | |||
| Men's Doubles | Saul Schiff James mccleur | Victor Barna Laszlo Bellak | Stanislav Kolarge Vaclav Tereba |
| Eric Philby Hyman Lory | |||
| Women's Doubles | Vlasta Depetrisova Vera Votrubtsova | Dora Take Care Ida Ferenczi | Phyllis Hodgkinson Doris jordan |
| Margaret Osbourne Dora Emdin | |||
| Mixed | Laszlo Bellak Wendy Woodhead | Bohumil Vanya Vera Votrubtsova | Alfred Liebster Gertrude Pritzi |
| Vaclav Tereba Maria Kettnerova | |||
| Men's Team Tournament | Hungary Victor Barna Laszlo Bellak ErnΓΆ Feldi Ferenc Shosh Tibor Hazy | Austria Richard Bergman Helmut Goebel Erich Caspar Alfred Liebster Karl Shadivi | USA Bernard Grims George Hendry James mccleur Saul Schiff Luis Pagliaro |
| Czechoslovakia Vaclav Tereba Miroslav Gamr Stanislav Kolarge Adolf Slar Bohumil Vanya | |||
| Women's team tournament | Czechoslovakia Maria Kettnerova Vlasta Depetrisova Vera Votrubtsova Yindriska Golubkova | England Dora Edmin Phyllis Hodgkinson Doris jordan Margaret Osbourne | Austria Zita Lemo Gertrude Pritzi |