1949 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1949 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the ninth edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

1949 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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United States won the gold medal defeating England 3–1 in the final. France and Hungary both won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  United States
Peggy McLean
Mildred Shahian
Thelma Thall
  England
Pinkie Barnes
Joan Crosby
Peggy Franks
Adele Wood
  France
Huguette Béolet
Jeanne Delay
Yolande Vannoni
  Hungary
Gizi Farkas
Rozsi Karpati
Erzsébet Mezei

Final tables edit

Group A edit

Pos Team P W L
1   United States 7 7 0
2   Hungary 7 6 1
3   Czechoslovakia 7 5 2
4   Scotland 7 4 3
5   Yugoslavia 7 3 4
6   Netherlands 7 2 5
7   Denmark 7 1 6
8   Norway 7 0 7
  •   Egypt scratched from Group A

Group B edit

Pos Team P W L
1   England 6 6 0
2   France 6 5 1
3   Austria 6 4 2
4   Wales 6 3 3
5   Sweden 6 2 4
6   Italy 6 1 5
7   Finland 6 0 6
  •   Romania and   Switzerland scratched from Group B

Final edit

  United States 3   England 1 Score
Shahian lost to Franks 0-2
McLean bt Barnes 2-0
Thall & McLean bt Franks & Barnes 2-1
McLean bt Franks 2-0

See also edit

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References edit

  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 2018-05-07.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  5. ^ "1949 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-05-07.