1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team

The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (Women's Team) was the 30th edition of the women's team championship.[1][2]

1983 Corbillon Cup (Women's Team)

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 3-0 in the final, North Korea won the bronze medal.[3][4][5]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Cao Yanhua Geng Lijuan Ni Xialian Tong Ling	Japan Mika Hoshino Emiko Kanda Fumiko Shinpo Tomoko Tamura	North Korea Chang Yong-ok Kim Gyong-sun Li Bun-Hui Li Song Suk

Final Tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	North Korea	7	6	1	6
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	5
4	Netherlands	7	4	3	4
5	West Germany	7	2	5	2
6	Hungary	7	2	5	2
7	Yugoslavia	7	1	6	1
8	France	7	1	6	1

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	6	1	6
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	South Korea	7	6	1	6
4	England	7	4	3	4
5	Romania	7	3	4	3
6	Sweden	7	2	5	2
7	Finland	7	1	6	1
8	Austria	7	0	7	0

Semi Finals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Japan	North Korea	3-1
China	Soviet Union	3-0

Third Place Play Off

Team One	Team Two	Score
North Korea	Soviet Union	3-1

Final

China 3		Japan 0	Score
Cao Yanhua	bt	Hoshino	21-13 21-17
Geng Lijuan	bt	Kanda	21-8 21-12
Cao Yanhua & Ni Xialian	bt	Shinpo & Tamura	21-16 21-8

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, pages 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.
5. "1983 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.