1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 37th edition of the women's team championship.[1][2]

1997 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating North Korea 3–0 in the final, Germany won the bronze medal.[3][4]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Deng Yaping
Li Ju
Wang Chen
Wang Nan
Yang Ying
  North Korea
Kim Hyon-hui
Tu Jong-sil
Wi Bok-Sun
  Germany
Christina Fischer
Olga Nemeș
Elke Schall
Jie Schöpp
Nicole Struse

Final stage knockout phase edit

Last 16 edit

Team One Team Two Score
Germany
China
North Korea Croatia 3–0
South Korea
Hong Kong Hungary 3–1
Sweden Russia 3–2
Romania
Japan Belarus 3–0

Quarter finals edit

Team One Team Two Score
Germany Sweden 3–2
China Hong Kong 3–0
North Korea Romania 3–2
South Korea Japan 3–2

Semifinals edit

Team One Team Two Score
North Korea South Korea 3–0
China Germany 3–0

Third-place playoff edit

Team One Team Two Score
Germany South Korea 3–1

Final edit

  China 3   North Korea 0 Score
Yang Ying bt Wi Bok-Sun 22–20 21–16
Deng Yaping bt Kim Hyon-hui 21–15 21–14
Li Ju bt Tu Jong Sil 21–18 21–14

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 2018-05-13.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-13.