1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1981 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 29th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

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

Medalists

Cao Yanhua Qi Baoxiang Tong Ling Zhang Deying

An Hae-sook Hwang Nam-sook Kim Kyung-ja Lee Soo-ja

Kim Gyong-sun Li Song Suk Pak Yung-Sun

Final tables

Group A

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	South Korea	7	5	2	5
3	Hungary	7	5	2	5
4	West Germany	7	4	3	4
5	Czechoslovakia	7	3	4	3
6	Japan	7	3	4	3
7	Finland	7	1	6	1
8	Hong Kong	7	0	7	0

Group B

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1	North Korea	7	7	0	7
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	Sweden	7	4	3	4
4	Romania	7	3	4	3
5	Yugoslavia	7	3	4	3
6	England	7	3	4	3
7	France	7	2	5	2
8	India	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

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South Korea	North Korea	3–1
China	Soviet Union	3–0

Third Place Play Off

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North Korea	Soviet Union	3–0

Final

width=250	China 3	width=80		width=250	South Korea 0	width=250	Score
Qi Baoxiang	bt	Lee Soo-ja	21–16 21–18
Cao Yanhua	bt	Hwang Nam-sook	21–13 21–15
Cao Yanhua & Zhang Deying	bt	Hwang Nam-sook & Lee Soo-ja	21–13 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: 1981 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-12. 2017-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170618115138/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1980-81/tt_issue319.pdf. dead.