1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team explained

1987 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 32nd edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating South Korea in the final 3–0. Hungary won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Team

Chen Jing Dai Lili Jiao Zhimin Li Huifen He Zhili

Baek Soon-Ae Hong Soon-hwa Hyun Jung-Hwa Yang Young-Ja

Csilla Bátorfi Szilvia Káhn Krisztina Nagy Edit Urban

Second stage

Group A

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1	China	3	3	0	3
2	Japan	3	2	1	2
3	Poland	3	1	2	1
4	France	3	0	3	0

Group B

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1	North Korea	3	2	1	2
2	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	2
3	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	2
4	England	3	0	3	0

Group C

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1	South Korea	3	3	0	3
2	Hungary	3	2	1	2
3	Sweden	3	1	2	1
4	Taiwan	3	0	3	0

Group D

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1	Soviet Union	3	3	0	3
2	Netherlands	3	2	1	2
3	Hong Kong	3	1	2	1
4	West Germany	3	0	3	0

Quarter finals

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Hungary	Soviet Union	3–0
China	Yugoslavia	3–1
Netherlands	North Korea	3–1
South Korea	Japan	3–0

Semifinals

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South Korea	Netherlands	3–0
China	Hungary	3–0

Third-place playoff

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Hungary	Netherlands	3-?

Final

width=150	China 3	width=50		width=250	South Korea 0	width=200	Score
Dai Lili	bt	Yang Young-Ja	23–21 21–17
Jiao Zhimin	bt	Hyun Jung-Hwa	18–21 21–9 21–13
Dai Lili & Li Huifen	bt	Yang Young-Ja & Hyun Jung-Hwa	21–16 21–15

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. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-04-28. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
5. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-04-28. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1987 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-28. 2020-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201115202055/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1986-87/tt_issue362.pdf. dead.