World Junior Table Tennis Medals by Country, 2003–2019

China Took 81.5% of Junior Golds, and Only 6 Countries Won Any

Of the 119 golds awarded from 2003 to 2019, China won 97, or 81.5%. The other 22 went to Japan (13), South Korea (5), Chinese Taipei (2), Germany (1), Romania (1). China won every gold in 6 of the 17 editions (2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018); its lowest year was 2016, with 1 of 7.

The share did not drift. Splitting the period at 2011, China's share of golds is 80.4% over 8 editions (45 of 56) and 82.5% over 9 editions (52 of 63). Counting all medals, the top three countries (China, Japan, South Korea) hold 351 of 470, 74.7%, while 6 countries have exactly one medal.

An average edition puts 7.6 different countries on the podium; boys' events average 5.2 medal-winning countries per edition and girls' events 4.9.

Medals by Country, 2003–2019

Gold, silver and bronze combined, one bar per country credited with a medal; a cross-national doubles pair (4 rows) counts for both countries. Hover a bar for the count.

Every World Junior Championships Medal, 2003–2019

One row per medal. 131 team rows have no roster in the source and show a dash in the athletes column.

Download the full table (CSV) · 470 rows

How the Numbers Were Made

Source and counting. Each row is one medal from the seven per-event tables of the Wikipedia list, retrieved 2026-09-13: 470 rows over 17 editions. Individual events award two bronzes. Countries are recorded as the source shows them; the 4 cross-national doubles pairs are credited to both countries in every tally, so country totals can add to slightly more than the row count.

Coverage stops at 2019. The source's per-event tables run from 2003 to 2019 and have not been extended, although the championships continued after 2019. Nothing after 2019 is on this page, and no earlier junior events under other names are included.

The finding. China's gold share is its gold rows divided by all gold rows, overall and on each side of 2011, which splits the 17 editions into 8 and 9. Countries per edition counts the distinct countries credited with any medal that year; the boys' and girls' figures count only boys' or girls' events, leaving mixed doubles out.

Licence and attribution. The rows come from the Wikipedia article “List of World Junior Table Tennis Championships medalists”, retrieved 2026-09-13, whose text is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the table on this page is a derivative of that list and is shared under the same licence. Wikipedia compiles the list from official results published by the ITTF and the organising federation, which are listed under Sources. The article carried no quality-flag banners at retrieval. Medal results are facts; the licence covers the compiled list, not the results themselves.

Sources

1. List of World Junior Table Tennis Championships medalistssecondaryWikipedia · secondary · retrieved 2026-09-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0 — Seven per-event medal tables, 2003–2019; no inline footnotes on the page
2. ITTF statistics by event (archived 2010)primaryITTF via Internet Archive · primary · Official results; ITTF copyright — Cited by the Wikipedia list as its results source; not re-fetched for this page
3. ITTF World Junior Championships competition page (as cited by the article)primaryITTF · primary · Official results; ITTF copyright — Cited by the Wikipedia list; the address predates the current ITTF site and may no longer resolve