1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1959 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 18th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal, South Korea won the silver medal and China won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi

Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyung-ja Hwang Yool-ja Lee Chong-Hi

Chiu Chung-Hui Sun Mei-ying Yei Pei-chun

Final tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	8	8	0	8
2	England	8	7	1	7
3	Sweden	8	5	3	5
4	East Germany	8	4	4	4
4	Netherlands	8	4	4	4
6	Denmark	8	2	6	2
6	Switzerland	8	2	6	2
6	Spain	8	2	6	2
8	United States	8	1	7	1

Group 2

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	South Korea	7	7	0	7
2	Czechoslovakia	7	6	1	6
3	Romania	7	5	2	5
4	Poland	7	4	3	4
5	Ireland	7	3	4	3
6	Wales	7	2	5	2
7	Greece	7	1	6	1
8	Norway	7	0	7	0

Group 3

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	8	8	0	8
2	Hungary	8	7	1	7
3	France	8	6	2	6
4	West Germany	8	5	3	5
5	Belgium	8	4	4	4
6	New Zealand	8	3	5	3
7	Austria	8	2	6	2
8	Italy	8	1	7	1
8	Canada	8	0	8	0

Final group

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	2
2	South Korea	2	1	1	1
3	China	2	0	2	0

Final Group Matches

width=250	Japan 3	width=80		width=250	China 0	width=250	Score
Namba	bt	Yei Pei-chun	21–9 21–18
Matsuzaki	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–13 21–13
Matsuzaki & Eguchi	bt	Sun Mei-ying & Chiu Chung-Hui	21–11 21–8

width=250	South Korea 3	width=80		width=250	China 0	width=250	Score
Choe Kyong Ja	bt	Yei Pei Chun	13–21 21–18 22–20
Cho Kyung-Cha	bt	Chiu Chung-Hui	21–13 21–14
Cho Kyung-Cha & Choe Kyong Ja	bt	Sun Mei-ying & Chiu Chung-Hui	21–23 21–10 21–16

width=250	Japan 3	width=80		width=250	South Korea 2	width=250	Score
Namba	lost to	Cho Kyung-Cha	18–21 16–21
Namba	bt	Choe Kyong Ja	19–21 21–16 21–15
Matsuzaki	bt	Choe Kyong Ja	21–9 21–11
Matsuzaki	lost to	Cho Kyung-Cha	21–18 19–21 16–21
Matsuzaki & Eguchi	bt	Cho Kyung-Cha & Choe Kyong Ja	21–10 21–17

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. 2018-05-10. 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. 2018-05-10. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
5. Web site: 1959 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-10. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926114147/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1958-59/tt_issue142.pdf. dead.