1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 30th edition of the women's team championship.^[1][2]

1983 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating Japan 3–0 in the final, North Korea won the bronze medal.^[3][4][5]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Cao Yanhua Geng Lijuan Ni Xialian Tong Ling	Japan Mika Hoshino Emiko Kanda Fumiko Shinpo Tomoko Tamura	North Korea Chang Yong-ok Kim Gyong-sun Li Bun-Hui Li Song Suk

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	North Korea	7	6	1	6
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	5
4	Netherlands	7	4	3	4
5	West Germany	7	2	5	2
6	Hungary	7	2	5	2
7	Yugoslavia	7	1	6	1
8	France	7	1	6	1

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	6	1	6
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	South Korea	7	6	1	6
4	England	7	4	3	4
5	Romania	7	3	4	3
6	Sweden	7	2	5	2
7	Finland	7	1	6	1
8	Austria	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Japan	North Korea	3–1
China	Soviet Union	3–0

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
North Korea	Soviet Union	3–1

Final

China 3		Japan 0	Score
Cao Yanhua	bt	Hoshino	21–13 21–17
Geng Lijuan	bt	Kanda	21–8 21–12
Cao Yanhua & Ni Xialian	bt	Shinpo & Tamura	21–16 21–8

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists