1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1983 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 30th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

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

Medalists

Cao Yanhua Geng Lijuan Ni Xialian Tong Ling

Mika Hoshino Emiko Kanda Fumiko Shinpo Tomoko Tamura

Chang Yong-ok Kim Gyong-sun Li Bun-Hui Li Song Suk

Final tables

Group A

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1	China	7	7	0	7
2	North Korea	7	6	1	6
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	5
4	Netherlands	7	4	3	4
5	West Germany	7	2	5	2
6	Hungary	7	2	5	2
7	Yugoslavia	7	1	6	1
8	France	7	1	6	1

Group B

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1	Japan	7	6	1	6
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	South Korea	7	6	1	6
4	England	7	4	3	4
5	Romania	7	3	4	3
6	Sweden	7	2	5	2
7	Finland	7	1	6	1
8	Austria	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

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

Third-place playoff

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North Korea	Soviet Union	3–1

Final

width=250	China 3	width=80		width=250	Japan 0	width=250	Score
Cao Yanhua	bt	Hoshino	21–13 21–17
Geng Lijuan	bt	Kanda	21–8 21–12
Cao Yanhua & Ni Xialian	bt	Shinpo & Tamura	21–16 21–8

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. 2019-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20190221013813/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
5. Web site: 1983 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-12. 2020-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920171652/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1982-83/tt_issue335.pdf. dead.