1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 28th edition of the women's team championship.^[1][2]

1979 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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Main article: 1979 World Table Tennis Championships

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

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Cao Yanhua Ge Xin'ai Zhang Deying Zhang Li	North Korea Hong Gil-Soon Li Song Suk Pak Yong-Ok Pak Yung-Sun	Japan Kayoko Kawahigashi Yoshiko Shimauchi Kayo Sugaya Shoko Takahashi

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	8	8	0	8
2	Japan	8	7	1	7
3	Hungary	8	6	2	6
4	Sweden	8	5	3	5
5	Hong Kong	8	4	4	3
6	Romania	8	3	5	3
7	France	8	2	6	3
8	Netherlands	8	1	7	1
9	Poland	8	0	8	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	North Korea	7	6	1	6
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	5
4	Yugoslavia	7	4	3	4
5	England	7	3	4	3
6	West Germany	7	3	4	3
7	United States	7	2	5	2
8	Bulgaria	7	1	6	1

Third Place Play Off

Team One	Team Two	Score
Japan	Soviet Union	3–1

Final

China 3		North Korea 0	Score
Zhang Deying	bt	Pak Yong-Ok	21–13 21–19
Zhang Deying & Zhang Li	bt	Hong Gil-Soon & Pak Yung-Sun	21–17 21–17
Zhang Deying	bt	Pak Yung-Sun	21–10 16–21 21–18

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists