1979 Corbillon Cup (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]

China won the gold medal defeating North Korea 3–0 in the final, Japan won the bronze medal.[3][4][5]

Medalists

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

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1China China8808
2Japan Japan8717
3Hungary Hungary8626
4Sweden Sweden8535
5Hong Kong Hong Kong8443
6Romania Romania8353
7France France8263
8Netherlands Netherlands8171
9Poland Poland8080

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1North Korea North Korea7616
2Soviet Union Soviet Union7616
3Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia7525
4Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia7434
5England England7343
6West Germany West Germany7343
7United States United States7252
8Bulgaria Bulgaria7161

Third Place Play Off

Team One Team Two Score
JapanSoviet Union3–1

Final

China China 3 North Korea North Korea 0 Score
Zhang DeyingbtPak Yong-Ok21–13 21–19
Zhang Deying & Zhang LibtHong Gil-Soon & Pak Yung-Sun21–17 21–17
Zhang DeyingbtPak Yung-Sun21–10 16–21 21–18

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

  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.
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