The Italian roots of table tennis in São Paulo (1916-1933)

Table tennis is a sport that arrived in São Paulo at the beginning of the 20th century. Currently, it is common to associate its development with the Japanese colony, perhaps there are two immigrants and descendants of other nationalities who are behind important advances in the practice of rackets...

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Autor: Yokota, Gustavo Kenzo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Movimento (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/133999
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/133999
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Table tennis
History
immigrants
italians
tenis de mesa
historia
italianos
inmigrantes
Tênis de mesa
História
Imigrantes
Italianos
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Sumario:Table tennis is a sport that arrived in São Paulo at the beginning of the 20th century. Currently, it is common to associate its development with the Japanese colony, perhaps there are two immigrants and descendants of other nationalities who are behind important advances in the practice of rackets in their competitive format. This historiographical research aims to structure the Italian roots of table tennis in São Paulo, based on a qualitative and exploratory approach to the literature relevant to the topic, combined with documentary analyzes of the days of the period available on the Digital Library of Newspapers website. It is confirmed that between the decades of 1910 and 1930, unions, managers and players from the Italian colony occupied prominent positions in sports circles, in addition to being important for the process of democratization of the sport. After years of this research, it is expected that it will not only contribute to discussions about associations and the protagonism of Italian immigrants in the sporting sphere […].