1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 29th edition of the women's team championship.[1][2]

1981 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating South Korea 3–0 in the final, North Korea won the bronze medal.[3][4][5]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Cao Yanhua
Qi Baoxiang
Tong Ling
Zhang Deying
  South Korea
An Hae-sook
Hwang Nam-sook
Kim Kyung-ja
Lee Soo-ja
  North Korea
Kim Gyong-sun
Li Song Suk
Pak Yung-Sun

Final tables edit

Group A edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 7 7 0 7
2   South Korea 7 5 2 5
3   Hungary 7 5 2 5
4   West Germany 7 4 3 4
5   Czechoslovakia 7 3 4 3
6   Japan 7 3 4 3
7   Finland 7 1 6 1
8   Hong Kong 7 0 7 0

Group B edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   North Korea 7 7 0 7
2   Soviet Union 7 6 1 6
3   Sweden 7 4 3 4
4   Romania 7 3 4 3
5   Yugoslavia 7 3 4 3
6   England 7 3 4 3
7   France 7 2 5 2
8   India 7 0 7 0

Semifinals edit

Team One Team Two Score
South Korea North Korea 3–1
China Soviet Union 3–0

Third Place Play Off edit

Team One Team Two Score
North Korea Soviet Union 3–0

Final edit

  China 3   South Korea 0 Score
Qi Baoxiang bt Lee Soo-ja 21–16 21–18
Cao Yanhua bt Hwang Nam-sook 21–13 21–15
Cao Yanhua & Zhang Deying bt Hwang Nam-sook & Lee Soo-ja 21–13 21–18

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 2018-05-12.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  5. ^ "1981 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-05-12.