1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1981 Corbillon Cup (women's team)

Main article: 1981 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 29th edition of the women's team championship.^[1][2]

China won the gold medal defeating South Korea 3–0 in the final, North Korea won the bronze medal.^[3][4][5]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Cao Yanhua Qi Baoxiang Tong Ling Zhang Deying	South Korea An Hae-sook Hwang Nam-sook Kim Kyung-ja Lee Soo-ja	North Korea Kim Gyong-sun Li Song Suk Pak Yung-Sun

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	South Korea	7	5	2	5
3	Hungary	7	5	2	5
4	West Germany	7	4	3	4
5	Czechoslovakia	7	3	4	3
6	Japan	7	3	4	3
7	Finland	7	1	6	1
8	Hong Kong	7	0	7	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	North Korea	7	7	0	7
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	Sweden	7	4	3	4
4	Romania	7	3	4	3
5	Yugoslavia	7	3	4	3
6	England	7	3	4	3
7	France	7	2	5	2
8	India	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
South Korea	North Korea	3–1
China	Soviet Union	3–0

Third Place Play Off

Team One	Team Two	Score
North Korea	Soviet Union	3–0

Final

China 3		South Korea 0	Score
Qi Baoxiang	bt	Lee Soo-ja	21–16 21–18
Cao Yanhua	bt	Hwang Nam-sook	21–13 21–15
Cao Yanhua & Zhang Deying	bt	Hwang Nam-sook & Lee Soo-ja	21–13 21–18

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 2018-05-12.
4. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
5. "1981 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-05-12.