The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 16th edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]
1956 Corbillon Cup (women's team) | |
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Romania won the gold medal with a perfect 7–0 match record, England won the silver medal and Japan won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5]
Medalists
editEvent | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Romania Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller |
England Ann Haydon Diane Rowe Jill Rook |
Japan Fujie Eguchi Tomi Okawa Yoshiko Tanaka Kiiko Watanabe |
Final table
editPos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
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1 | Romania | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2 | England | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Japan | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
4 | United States | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
5 | South Korea | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
6 | China | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
7 | Hong Kong | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
8 | India | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Decisive Group Match
editRomania 3 | England 1 | Score | |
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Zeller | lost to | Haydon | 9–21 21–23 |
Rozeanu | bt | Haydon | 19–21 21–18 21–18 |
Rozeanu | bt | Rowe D | 21–11 21–18 |
Rozeanu & Zeller | bt | Haydon & Rowe D | 21–19 21–14 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ^ "1956 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.