1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 15th edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

1955 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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Romania won the gold medal after finishing top of the final group. Japan won the silver medal and England won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
  Romania
Angelica Rozeanu
Sari Szasz
Ella Zeller
  Japan
Fujie Eguchi
Shizuki Narahara
Yoshiko Tanaka
Kiiko Watanabe
  England
Ann Haydon
Diane Rowe
Rosalind Rowe
Jean Winn

Final tables

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Group 1

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Romania 6 6 0 6
2   Hungary 6 5 1 5
3   Scotland 6 4 2 4
4   Yugoslavia 6 3 3 3
5   Bulgaria 6 2 4 2
6   Denmark 6 1 5 1
7   Belgium 6 0 6 0

Group 2

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 6 6 0 6
2   France 6 5 1 5
3   Czechoslovakia 6 4 2 4
4   Netherlands 6 3 3 3
5   Egypt 6 2 4 2
6   Saarland 6 1 5 1
7   Ireland 6 0 6 0

Group 3

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   England 7 7 0 7
2   Austria 7 6 1 6
3   Wales 7 5 2 5
4   United States 7 4 3 4
5   Sweden 7 3 4 3
6   Germany 7 2 5 2
7   Italy 7 1 6 1
8   Switzerland 7 0 7 0

Final group

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

Decisive final group match

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  Romania 3   Japan 2 Score
Rozeanu bt Eguchi 21–13 21–16
Rozeanu bt Tanaka 21–16 19–21 21–9
Zeller lost to Eguchi 19–21 7–21
Zeller bt Tanaka 14–21 21–16 22–20
Rozeanu & Zeller lost to Eguchi & Watanabe 19–21 13–21

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  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 2018-05-09.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  5. ^ "1955 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.