1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1959 Corbillon Cup (women's team)

Main article: 1959 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 18th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal, South Korea won the silver medal and China won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Fujie Eguchi Kimiyo Matsuzaki Taeko Namba Kazuko Yamaizumi	South Korea Cho Kyung-Cha Choi Kyung-ja Hwang Yool-ja Lee Chong-Hi	China Chiu Chung-Hui Sun Mei-ying Yei Pei-chun

Final tables

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	8	8	0	8
2	England	8	7	1	7
3	Sweden	8	5	3	5
4	East Germany	8	4	4	4
4	Netherlands	8	4	4	4
6	Denmark	8	2	6	2
6	Switzerland	8	2	6	2
6	Spain	8	2	6	2
8	United States	8	1	7	1

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	South Korea	7	7	0	7
2	Czechoslovakia	7	6	1	6
3	Romania	7	5	2	5
4	Poland	7	4	3	4
5	Ireland	7	3	4	3
6	Wales	7	2	5	2
7	Greece	7	1	6	1
8	Norway	7	0	7	0

Group 3

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	8	8	0	8
2	Hungary	8	7	1	7
3	France	8	6	2	6
4	West Germany	8	5	3	5
5	Belgium	8	4	4	4
6	New Zealand	8	3	5	3
7	Austria	8	2	6	2
8	Italy	8	1	7	1
8	Canada	8	0	8	0

Final group

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	2
2	South Korea	2	1	1	1
3	China	2	0	2	0

Final Group Matches

Japan 3		China 0	Score
Namba	bt	Yei Pei-chun	21–9 21–18
Matsuzaki	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–13 21–13
Matsuzaki & Eguchi	bt	Sun Mei-ying & Chiu Chung-Hui	21–11 21–8

South Korea 3		China 0	Score
Choe Kyong Ja	bt	Yei Pei Chun	13–21 21–18 22–20
Cho Kyung-Cha	bt	Chiu Chung-Hui	21–13 21–14
Cho Kyung-Cha & Choe Kyong Ja	bt	Sun Mei-ying & Chiu Chung-Hui	21–23 21–10 21–16

Japan 3		South Korea 2	Score
Namba	lost to	Cho Kyung-Cha	18–21 16–21
Namba	bt	Choe Kyong Ja	19–21 21–16 21–15
Matsuzaki	bt	Choe Kyong Ja	21–9 21–11
Matsuzaki	lost to	Cho Kyung-Cha	21–18 19–21 16–21
Matsuzaki & Eguchi	bt	Cho Kyung-Cha & Choe Kyong Ja	21–10 21–17

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 2018-05-10.
4. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
5. "1959 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-05-10.