1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1947 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the seventh edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

England won the gold medal defeating Hungary 3–0 in the final. Czechoslovakia and the United States won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.[3] The actual trophy had been lost during the war so a replica trophy was awarded.[4] [5]

Medalists

Team


Elizabeth Blackbourn
Vera Dace
Peggy Franks
Margaret Osborne-Knott

Éva Anderlik
Gizi Farkas
Rozsi Karpati
Béla Vermes

Vlasta Depetrisová
Eliška Fürstová
Marie Kettnerová
Věra Votrubcová

Mae Clouther
Davida Hawthorn
Reba Monness
Leah Thall

Final tables

Group A

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1 Hungary 3 3 0
2 Czechoslovakia 3 2 1
3 Wales 4 2 2
4 Netherlands 4 1 3
5 Austria * 2 0 2
6 Romania + 0 0 0
6 Egypt + 0 0 0
6 Luxembourg + 0 0 0
+ withdrew / * withdrew after 2 games

Group B

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1 England 6 6 0
2 United States 6 5 1
3 Belgium 6 3 3
3 Switzerland 6 3 3
5 Scotland 6 2 4
5 France 6 2 4
7 Sweden 6 0 6

Final

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England Hungary 3-0

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Winners. All About Tennis.
  2. Book: Montague, Trevor. A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
  3. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-05-06. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
  4. Web site: 1947 Corbillon Cup. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-06. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926124657/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1946-47/tt_issue37.pdf. dead.
  5. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-05-06. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.