1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1948 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
Location	Wembley, London

Main article: 1948 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the eighth edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

England won the gold medal defeating Hungary 3–1 in the final. Czechoslovakia and Romania won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	England Dora Beregi Peggy Franks Betty Steventon Vera Dace-Thomas	Hungary Gizi Farkas Loretta Gyorgy Rozsi Karpati	Romania Sari Szász-Kolozsvári Angelica Rozeanu G Beca Despina Mavrocordat
			Czechoslovakia Eliska Fürstova Marie Kettnerová Vlasta Pokorna Marie Zelenková

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L
1	England	7	7	0
2	Romania	7	6	1
3	United States	7	5	2
4	Belgium	7	4	3
5	Scotland	7	3	4
6	Austria	7	2	5
7	Wales	7	1	6
8	Jersey	7	0	7

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L
1	Hungary	7	7	0
2	Czechoslovakia	7	6	1
3	France	7	5	2
4	Egypt	7	4	3
5	Ireland	7	3	4
6	Netherlands	7	2	5
7	Sweden	7	1	6
8	Luxembourg	7	0	7

Final

England 3		Hungary 1	Score
Beregi	bt	Farkas	21-19 21-15
Beregi	bt	Karpati	21-10 21-13
Dace-Thomas	lost to	Farkas	16-21 14-21
Beregi & Dace-Thomas	bt	Farkas & Karpati	18-21 21-14 21-13

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
2. Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
3. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
4. "1948 Corbillon Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
5. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-06.