1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1948 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
Location:	Wembley, London
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The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the eighth edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

England won the gold medal defeating Hungary 3–1 in the final. Czechoslovakia and Romania won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Team

	Dora Beregi Peggy Franks Betty Steventon Vera Dace-Thomas	Gizi Farkas Loretta Gyorgy Rozsi Karpati	Sari Szász-Kolozsvári Angelica Rozeanu G Beca Despina Mavrocordat
			Eliska Fürstova Marie Kettnerová Vlasta Pokorna Marie Zelenková

Final tables

Group A

width=20	Pos	width=200	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L
1	England	7	7	0
2	Romania	7	6	1
3	United States	7	5	2
4	Belgium	7	4	3
5	Scotland	7	3	4
6	Austria	7	2	5
7	Wales	7	1	6
8	Jersey	7	0	7

Group B

width=20	Pos	width=200	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L
1	Hungary	7	7	0
2	Czechoslovakia	7	6	1
3	France	7	5	2
4	Egypt	7	4	3
5	Ireland	7	3	4
6	Netherlands	7	2	5
7	Sweden	7	1	6
8	Luxembourg	7	0	7

Final

width=250	England 3	width=100		width=250	Hungary 1	width=150	Score
Beregi	bt	Farkas	21-19 21-15
Beregi	bt	Karpati	21-10 21-13
Dace-Thomas	lost to	Farkas	16-21 14-21
Beregi & Dace-Thomas	bt	Farkas & Karpati	18-21 21-14 21-13

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: 1948 Corbillon Cup. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-06. 2021-11-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20211127234220/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1947-48/tt_issue46.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.