1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 32nd edition of the women's team championship.^[1][2]

1987 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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Main article: 1987 World Table Tennis Championships

China won the gold medal defeating South Korea in the final 3–0. Hungary won the bronze medal.^[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Chen Jing Dai Lili Jiao Zhimin Li Huifen He Zhili	South Korea Baek Soon-Ae Hong Soon-hwa Hyun Jung-Hwa Yang Young-Ja	Hungary Csilla Bátorfi Szilvia Káhn Krisztina Nagy Edit Urban

Second stage

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	3	3	0	3
2	Japan	3	2	1	2
3	Poland	3	1	2	1
4	France	3	0	3	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	North Korea	3	2	1	2
2	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	2
3	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	2
4	England	3	0	3	0

Group C

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	South Korea	3	3	0	3
2	Hungary	3	2	1	2
3	Sweden	3	1	2	1
4	Taiwan	3	0	3	0

Group D

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Soviet Union	3	3	0	3
2	Netherlands	3	2	1	2
3	Hong Kong	3	1	2	1
4	West Germany	3	0	3	0

Quarter finals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Hungary	Soviet Union	3–0
China	Yugoslavia	3–1
Netherlands	North Korea	3–1
South Korea	Japan	3–0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
South Korea	Netherlands	3–0
China	Hungary	3–0

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
Hungary	Netherlands	3-?

Final

China 3		South Korea 0	Score
Dai Lili	bt	Yang Young-Ja	23–21 21–17
Jiao Zhimin	bt	Hyun Jung-Hwa	18–21 21–9 21–13
Dai Lili & Li Huifen	bt	Yang Young-Ja & Hyun Jung-Hwa	21–16 21–15

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
5. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
6. "1987 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2018.