1979 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Pyongyang from April 25 to May 6, 1979.^[1][2]

Results

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Hungary Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz János Takács	China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Lu Qiwei	Japan Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima
Corbillon Cup Women's team	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

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Seiji Ono	Guo Yuehua	Liang Geliang
			Li Zhenshi
Women's singles	Ge Xin'ai	Li Song Suk	Tong Ling
			Zhang Deying
Men's doubles	Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Li Zhenshi Wang Huiyuan
			Guo Yuehua Liang Geliang
Women's doubles	Zhang Deying Zhang Li	Ge Xin'ai Yan Guili	Li Song-suk Ro Jong-suk
			Erzsebet Palatinus Gordana Perkučin
Mixed doubles	Liang Geliang Ge Xin'ai	Li Zhenshi Yan Guili	Wang Huiyuan Zhang Deying
			Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret

References

1. "World Championships Results". ITTF Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
2. "ITTF Statistics". ittf.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

• ITTF Museum