1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

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

1963 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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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

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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

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Group A

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Final

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  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

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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 2018-05-10.
  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.