1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1961 Corbillon Cup (women's team)

Main article: 1961 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 19th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

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

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Kazuko Ito Kimiyo Matsuzaki Tomi Okawa Masako Seki	China Han Yuzhen Hu Ke-ming Sun Mei-ying Chui Chung-hui	Romania Maria Alexandru Maria Catrinel Folea Georgita Pitica

Final tables

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Romania	5	5	0	5
2	Hungary	5	4	1	4
3	East Germany	5	3	2	3
4	West Germany	5	2	3	2
5	Poland	5	1	4	1
6	Mongolia	5	0	5	0

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	5	5	0	5
2	Czechoslovakia	5	4	1	4
3	Australia	5	2	3	2
3	France	5	2	3	2
3	Bulgaria	5	2	3	2
6	Nepal	5	0	5	0

Group 3

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	6	6	0	6
2	Soviet Union	6	5	1	5
3	England	6	4	2	4
4	Sweden	6	3	3	3
5	New Zealand	6	2	4	2
6	North Vietnam	6	1	5	1
7	Ghana	6	0	6	0

Final group

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

Final group matches

Japan 5		Romania 0	Score
Itoh	bt	Alexandru	17–21 21–15 21–13
Matsuzaki	bt	Pitica	21–13 21–9
Matsuzaki	bt	Alexandru	21–12 21–10
Itoh	bt	Pitica	21–13 21–13
Matsuzaki & Itoh	bt	Pitica & Alexandru	19–21 23–21 21–10

China 3		Romania 2	Score
Sun Mei-ying	lost to	Alexandru	14–21 17–21
Sun Mei-ying	bt	Pitica	21–17 21–12
Chiu Chung-Hui	bt	Pitica	21–16 18–21 21–18
Chiu Chung-Hui	bt	Alexandru	21–23 21–14 21–16
Hu Ke-ming & Chiu Chung-Hui	lost to	Alexandru & Pitica	13–21 14–21

Japan 3		China 2	Score
Matsuzaki	bt	Sun Mei-ying	20–22 21–12 21–12
Matsuzaki	bt	Chui Chung-hui	21–18 21–8
Itoh	lost to	Chui Chung-hui	16–21 21–17 19–21
Itoh	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–9 21–18
Matsuzaki & Itoh	lost to	Sun Mei-ying & Chui Chung-hui	21–12 14–21 17–21

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. "1961 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2018-05-10.