1957 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1957 Corbillon Cup (women's team)

Main article: 1957 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1957 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 17th edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

Japan won the gold medal, Romania won the silver medal and China won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Fujie Eguchi Taeko Namba Tomie Okawa Kiiko Watanabe	Romania Maria Golopenta Angelica Rozeanu Ella Zeller	China Chiu Chung-Hui Sun Mei-ying Yei Pei-chun

Final tables

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Romania	8	8	0	8
2	South Korea	8	7	1	7
3	Yugoslavia	8	5	3	5
3	Sweden	8	5	3	5
3	France	8	5	3	5
6	Poland	8	3	5	3
7	Ireland	8	2	6	2
8	Austria	8	1	7	1
8	Finland	8	0	8	0

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	5	5	0	5
2	Hungary	5	4	1	4
3	Scotland	5	3	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	2
5	Germany	5	1	4	1
6	Italy	5	0	5	0

Group 3

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	8	8	0	8
2	England	8	7	1	7
3	Wales	8	6	2	6
4	United States	8	5	3	5
5	Belgium	8	4	4	4
6	Denmark	8	3	5	3
7	Switzerland	8	2	6	2
8	Netherlands	8	1	7	1
8	Norway	8	0	8	0

Final Group

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	2
2	Romania	2	1	1	1
3	China	2	0	2	0

Final Group Matches

Romania 3		China 2	Score
Rozeanu	bt	Yei Pei-chun	21–10 17–21 21–9
Rozeanu	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–10 21–18
Zeller	lost to	Sun Mei-ying	7–21 21–17 17–21
Zeller	lost to	Yei Pei-chun	21–13 16–21 15–21
Rozeanu & Zeller	bt	Sun Mei-ying & Chiu Chung-Hui	21–16 21–13

Japan 5		China 0	Score
Eguchi	bt	Chiu Chung-Hui	21–11 21–14
Okawa	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–14 21–18
Okawa	bt	Chiu Chung-Hui	13–21 21–19 22–20
Eguchi	bt	Sun Mei-ying	21–9 15–21 21–17
Eguchi & Watanabe	bt	Sun Mei-ying & Chiu Chung-Hui	21–12 21–13

Japan 3		Romania 0	Score
Watanabe	bt	Zeller	21–12 21–18
Eguchi	bt	Rozeanu	21–14 21–16
Eguchi & Watanabe	bt	Rozeanu & Zeller	19–21 21–19 21–19

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 2018-05-10.
4. "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
5. "1957 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.