1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1963 Corbillon Cup (women's team)

Main article: 1963 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 20th edition of the women's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal and Romania won the silver medal. China and Hungary won bronze medals after reaching the semi-finals.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Kazuko Ito Kimiyo Matsuzaki Masako Seki Noriko Yamanaka	Romania Maria Alexandru Ella Constantinescu Maria Catrinel Folea Georgita Pitica	China Liang Lizhen Qiu Zhonghui Sun Meiying Wang Jian
			Hungary Éva Kóczián-Foldi Erzsebet Heirits Sarolta Lukacs Eva Poor

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Romania	6	6	0	6
2	Poland	6	5	1	5
3	Czechoslovakia	6	4	2	4
4	Austria	6	3	3	3
5	United States	6	2	4	2
6	Denmark	6	1	5	1
7	Scotland	6	0	6	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	East Germany	7	6	1	6
3	Soviet Union	7	5	2	5
4	New Zealand	7	4	3	4
5	Switzerland	7	3	4	3
6	Wales	7	2	5	2
7	Canada	7	1	6	1
8	Luxembourg	7	0	7	0

Group C

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	8	8	0	8
2	Yugoslavia	8	5	3	5
3	Sweden	8	5	3	5
4	Australia	8	5	3	5
5	Bulgaria	8	5	3	5
6	Portugal	8	4	4	4
7	Netherlands	8	3	5	3
8	Brazil	8	1	7	1
9	Norway	8	0	8	0

Group D

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Hungary	8	7	1	7
2	England	8	7	1	7
3	West Germany	8	7	1	7
4	North Korea	8	4	4	4
5	France	8	4	4	4
6	Indonesia	8	3	5	3
7	Belgium	8	3	5	3
8	North Vietnam	8	1	7	1
9	Italy	8	0	8	0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Romania	China	3–2
Japan	Hungary	3–0

Final

Japan 3		Romania 0	Score
Matsuzaki	bt	Constantinescu	21–17 21–19
Seki	bt	Alexandru	21–16 21–17
Matsuzaki & Seki	bt	Pitica & Alexandru	21–17 21–12

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. "1963 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-05-10.