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1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

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1948 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
LocationWembley, London
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The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the eighth edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

England won the gold medal defeating Hungary 3–1 in the final. Czechoslovakia and Romania won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

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Team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
 England
Dora Beregi
Peggy Franks
Betty Steventon
Vera Dace-Thomas
 Hungary
Gizi Farkas
Loretta Gyorgy
Rozsi Karpati
 Romania
Sari Szász-Kolozsvári
Angelica Rozeanu
G Beca
Despina Mavrocordat
 Czechoslovakia
Eliska Fürstova
Marie Kettnerová
Vlasta Pokorna
Marie Zelenková

Final tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L
1 England England 7 7 0
2 Romania Romania 7 6 1
3 United States United States 7 5 2
4 Belgium Belgium 7 4 3
5 Scotland Scotland 7 3 4
6 Austria Austria 7 2 5
7 Wales Wales 7 1 6
8 Jersey Jersey 7 0 7

Group B

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Pos Team P W L
1 Hungary Hungary 7 7 0
2 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 7 6 1
3 France France 7 5 2
4 Egypt Egypt 7 4 3
5 Republic of Ireland Ireland 7 3 4
6 Netherlands Netherlands 7 2 5
7 Sweden Sweden 7 1 6
8 Luxembourg Luxembourg 7 0 7

Final

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England England 3 Hungary Hungary 1 Score
Beregi bt Farkas 21-19 21-15
Beregi bt Karpati 21-10 21-13
Dace-Thomas lost to Farkas 16-21 14-21
Beregi & Dace-Thomas bt Farkas & Karpati 18-21 21-14 21-13

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  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. ^ "1948 Corbillon Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  5. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-06.