1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 28th edition of the women's team championship.[1][2]

1979 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating North Korea 3–0 in the final, Japan won the bronze medal.[3][4][5]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Cao Yanhua
Ge Xin'ai
Zhang Deying
Zhang Li
  North Korea
Hong Gil-Soon
Li Song Suk
Pak Yong-Ok
Pak Yung-Sun
  Japan
Kayoko Kawahigashi
Yoshiko Shimauchi
Kayo Sugaya
Shoko Takahashi

Final tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 8 8 0 8
2   Japan 8 7 1 7
3   Hungary 8 6 2 6
4   Sweden 8 5 3 5
5   Hong Kong 8 4 4 3
6   Romania 8 3 5 3
7   France 8 2 6 3
8   Netherlands 8 1 7 1
9   Poland 8 0 8 0

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   North Korea 7 6 1 6
2   Soviet Union 7 6 1 6
3   Czechoslovakia 7 5 2 5
4   Yugoslavia 7 4 3 4
5   England 7 3 4 3
6   West Germany 7 3 4 3
7   United States 7 2 5 2
8   Bulgaria 7 1 6 1

Third Place Play Off

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Team One Team Two Score
Japan Soviet Union 3–1

Final

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  China 3   North Korea 0 Score
Zhang Deying bt Pak Yong-Ok 21–13 21–19
Zhang Deying & Zhang Li bt Hong Gil-Soon & Pak Yung-Sun 21–17 21–17
Zhang Deying bt Pak Yung-Sun 21–10 16–21 21–18

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  5. ^ "1979 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-05-12.