1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1947 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
Location	Paris

Main article: 1947 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the seventh edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

England won the gold medal defeating Hungary 3–0 in the final. Czechoslovakia and the United States won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.[3] The actual trophy had been lost during the war so a replica trophy was awarded.[4] [5]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	England Elizabeth Blackbourn Vera Dace Peggy Franks Margaret Osborne-Knott	Hungary Éva Anderlik Gizi Farkas Rozsi Karpati Béla Vermes	Czechoslovakia Vlasta Depetrisová Eliška Fürstová Marie Kettnerová Věra Votrubcová
			United States Mae Clouther Davida Hawthorn Reba Monness Leah Thall

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L
1	Hungary	3	3	0
2	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1
3	Wales	4	2	2
4	Netherlands	4	1	3
5	Austria *	2	0	2
6	Romania +	0	0	0
6	Egypt +	0	0	0
6	Luxembourg +	0	0	0

+ withdrew / * withdrew after 2 games

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L
1	England	6	6	0
2	United States	6	5	1
3	Belgium	6	3	3
3	Switzerland	6	3	3
5	Scotland	6	2	4
5	France	6	2	4
7	Sweden	6	0	6

Final

Team One	Team Two	Score
England	Hungary	3-0

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. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
4. "1947 Corbillon Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
5. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-06.