1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

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

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

Medalists

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

Group A

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

Group B

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

Semifinals

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

Third Place Play Off

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

Final

China China 3 South Korea 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

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