The 1961 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles was the 26th edition of the men's doubles championship.^[1][2] Koji Kimura and Nobuya Hoshino won the title after defeating Zoltán Berczik and Ferenc Sidó in the final by three sets to one.^[3]

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	Round of 16									Quarterfinals									Semifinals									Final
		Zoltán Berczik Ferenc Sidó	21	19	21	21
		Hu Tao-Pen Tan Cho-Lin	17	21	13	17					Berczik Sidó	18	21	18	24	21
		Wu Hung Wang Hung-Chi	w/o								Wang Chuan-Yao Hsu Yin-Sheng	21	10	21	22	18
		Wang Chuan-Yao Hsu Yin-Sheng	scr																	Berczik Sidó	21	21	21
		Ichiro Ogimura Teruo Murakami	21	21	21															Chou Lan-Sun Wang Chia-Sheng	13	15	19
		Conny Freundorfer Martin Ness	14	12	19						Ogimura Murakami	21	14	19	18
		Hans Alsér Tony Larsson	21	21	13	18	13				Chou Lan-Sun Wang Chia-Sheng	19	21	21	21
		Chou Lan-Sun Wang Chia-Sheng	23	17	21	21	21																						Berczik Sidó	18	27	19	13
		Koji Kimura Nobuya Hoshino	21	21	21																								Kimura Hoshino	21	25	21	21
		Tsai Ming-Shu Tu Han-Kong	15	19	16						Kimura Hoshino	w/o
		Jung Kuo-Tuan Yang Jui-Hua	w/o								Jung Kuo-Tuan Yang Jui-Hua	scr
		Chu Jen-Ling Ma Chin-Pao	scr																	Kimura Hoshino	21	12	21	21
		Péter Rózsás Miklós Péterfy	20	21	22	21														Chuang Tse-Tung Li Fu-Jung	14	21	11	15
		Radu Negulescu Adalbert Rethi	22	17	20	8					Rózsás Péterfy	17	19	14
		Chuang Tse-Tung Li Fu-Jung	21	21	21						Chuang Tse-Tung Li Fu-Jung	21	21	21
		Goro Shibutani Keiichi Miki	6	18	19

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists