1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1961 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 19th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

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

Medalists

Han Yuzhen Hu Ke-ming Sun Mei-ying Chui Chung-hui

Maria Alexandru Maria Catrinel Folea Georgita Pitica

Final tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Romania	5	5	0	5
2	Hungary	5	4	1	4
3	East Germany	5	3	2	3
4	West Germany	5	2	3	2
5	Poland	5	1	4	1
6	Mongolia	5	0	5	0

Group 2

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	5	5	0	5
2	Czechoslovakia	5	4	1	4
3	Australia	5	2	3	2
3	France	5	2	3	2
3	Bulgaria	5	2	3	2
6	Nepal	5	0	5	0

Group 3

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	Soviet Union	6	5	1	5
3	England	6	4	2	4
4	Sweden	6	3	3	3
5	New Zealand	6	2	4	2
6	North Vietnam	6	1	5	1
7	Ghana	6	0	6	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	China	2	1	1	1
3	Romania	2	0	2	0

Final group matches

width=250	Japan 5	width=80		width=250	Romania 0	width=250	Score
Itoh	bt	Alexandru	17–21 21–15 21–13
Matsuzaki	bt	Pitica	21–13 21–9
Matsuzaki	bt	Alexandru	21–12 21–10
Itoh	bt	Pitica	21–13 21–13
Matsuzaki & Itoh	bt	Pitica & Alexandru	19–21 23–21 21–10

width=250	China 3	width=80		width=250	Romania 2	width=250	Score
Sun Mei-ying	lost to	Alexandru	14–21 17–21
Sun Mei-ying	bt	Pitica	21–17 21–12
Chiu Chung-Hui	bt	Pitica	21–16 18–21 21–18
Chiu Chung-Hui	bt	Alexandru	21–23 21–14 21–16
Hu Ke-ming & Chiu Chung-Hui	lost to	Alexandru & Pitica	13–21 14–21

width=250	Japan 3	width=80		width=250	China 2	width=250	Score
Matsuzaki	bt	Sun Mei-ying	20–22 21–12 21–12
Matsuzaki	bt	Chui Chung-hui	21–18 21–8
Itoh	lost to	Chui Chung-hui	16–21 21–17 19–21
Itoh	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–9 21–18
Matsuzaki & Itoh	lost to	Sun Mei-ying & Chui Chung-hui	21–12 14–21 17–21

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. 2018-05-10. 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: 1961 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-10. 2021-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20210512135339/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1960-61/tt_issue159.pdf. dead.