1954 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1954 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 14th edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

1954 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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Japan won the gold medal, Hungary won the silver medal and England won the bronze medal following a three way tie in the final group play off, positions of which were eventually decided by matches won.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
  Japan
Fujie Eguchi
Hideko Goto
Yoshiko Tanaka
Kiiko Watanabe
  Hungary
Gizi Gervai-Farkas
Ilona Kerekes
Éva Kóczián
Agnes Simon
  England
Kathleen Best
Ann Haydon
Diane Rowe
Rosalind Rowe

Final tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 8 8 0 16
2   Austria 8 6 2 12
3   Belgium 8 5 3 10
3   Egypt 8 5 3 10
5   Yugoslavia 8 4 4 8
5   United States 8 4 4 8
7   Saarland 8 2 6 4
8   Denmark 8 1 7 2
9   Switzerland 8 0 8 0

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   England 6 6 0 12
2   Czechoslovakia 6 4 2 8
2   Wales 6 4 2 8
2   France 6 4 2 8
5   Netherlands 6 2 4 4
6   Sweden 6 1 5 2
7   Portugal 6 0 6 0
8   Italy+ 0 0 0 0

+withdrew

Group C

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Hungary 6 6 0 12
2   Romania 6 5 1 10
3   India 6 3 3 6
3   Scotland 6 3 3 6
3   Germany 6 3 3 6
6   Ireland 6 1 5 2
7   Finland 6 0 6 0
8   Brazil+ 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Final group

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Pos Team P W L MW ML Pts
1   Japan 2 1 1 5 4 2
2   Hungary 2 1 1 4 4 2
3   England 2 1 1 4 5 2

Final group matches

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  Hungary 3   England 1 Score
Farkas-Gervai bt Haydon 21-18 21-12
Farkas-Gervai bt Rowe R 21-198 15-21 21-18
Kóczián lost to Rowe R 14-21 19-21
Kóczián & Simon bt Rowe R & Rowe D 21-18 23-21
  England 3   Japan 2 Score
Rowe D bt Tanaka 20-22 21-17 22-20
Rowe D lost to Watanabe 13-21 13-21
Rowe R lost to Tanaka 17-21 20-22
Rowe R bt Watanabe 24-22 18-21 21-16
Rowe R & Rowe D bt Tanaka & Watanabe 9-21 21-16 21-17
  Japan 3   Hungary 1 Score
Tanaka lost to Farkas-Gervai 18-21 21-13 17-21
Watanabe bt Farkas-Gervai 21-7 16-21 21-8
Watanabe bt Kóczián 16-21 21-19 21-12
Eguchi & Watanabe bt Kóczián & Simon 18-21 21-15 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 2018-05-09.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  5. ^ "1954 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.