1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1955 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 15th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Romania won the gold medal after finishing top of the final group. Japan won the silver medal and England won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Angelica Rozeanu Sari Szasz Ella Zeller

Fujie Eguchi Shizuki Narahara Yoshiko Tanaka Kiiko Watanabe

Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Rosalind Rowe Jean Winn

Final tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Romania	6	6	0	6
2	Hungary	6	5	1	5
3	Scotland	6	4	2	4
4	Yugoslavia	6	3	3	3
5	Bulgaria	6	2	4	2
6	Denmark	6	1	5	1
7	Belgium	6	0	6	0

Group 2

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	6	6	0	6
2	France	6	5	1	5
3	Czechoslovakia	6	4	2	4
4	Netherlands	6	3	3	3
5	Egypt	6	2	4	2
6	Saarland	6	1	5	1
7	Ireland	6	0	6	0

Group 3

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1	England	7	7	0	7
2	Austria	7	6	1	6
3	Wales	7	5	2	5
4	United States	7	4	3	4
5	Sweden	7	3	4	3
6	Germany	7	2	5	2
7	Italy	7	1	6	1
8	Switzerland	7	0	7	0

Final group

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Romania	2	2	0	2
2	Japan	2	1	1	1
3	England	2	0	2	0

Decisive final group match

width=150	Romania 3	width=100		width=150	Japan 2	width=250	Score
Rozeanu	bt	Eguchi	21–13 21–16
Rozeanu	bt	Tanaka	21–16 19–21 21–9
Zeller	lost to	Eguchi	19–21 7–21
Zeller	bt	Tanaka	14–21 21–16 22–20
Rozeanu & Zeller	lost to	Eguchi & Watanabe	19–21 13–21

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. 2018-05-09. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
4. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-05-09. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
5. Web site: 1955 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England.