1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1979 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 28th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating North Korea 3–0 in the final, Japan won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Cao Yanhua Ge Xin'ai Zhang Deying Zhang Li

Hong Gil-Soon Li Song Suk Pak Yong-Ok Pak Yung-Sun

Kayoko Kawahigashi Yoshiko Shimauchi Kayo Sugaya Shoko Takahashi

Final tables

Group A

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	Japan	8	7	1	7
3	Hungary	8	6	2	6
4	Sweden	8	5	3	5
5	Hong Kong	8	4	4	3
6	Romania	8	3	5	3
7	France	8	2	6	3
8	Netherlands	8	1	7	1
9	Poland	8	0	8	0

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	North Korea	7	6	1	6
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	5
4	Yugoslavia	7	4	3	4
5	England	7	3	4	3
6	West Germany	7	3	4	3
7	United States	7	2	5	2
8	Bulgaria	7	1	6	1

Third Place Play Off

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Japan	Soviet Union	3–1

Final

width=250	China 3	width=80		width=250	North Korea 0	width=250	Score
Zhang Deying	bt	Pak Yong-Ok	21–13 21–19
Zhang Deying & Zhang Li	bt	Hong Gil-Soon & Pak Yung-Sun	21–17 21–17
Zhang Deying	bt	Pak Yung-Sun	21–10 16–21 21–18

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. 2018-05-12. 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. 2018-05-12. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
5. Web site: 1979 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-12. 2020-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925132401/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1978-79/tt_issue303.pdf. dead.