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1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

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1956 Corbillon Cup (women's team)
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The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 16th edition of the women's team championship.[1] [2]

Romania won the gold medal with a perfect 7–0 match record, England won the silver medal and Japan won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Romania
Angelica Rozeanu
Ella Zeller
 England
Ann Haydon
Diane Rowe
Jill Rook
 Japan
Fujie Eguchi
Tomi Okawa
Yoshiko Tanaka
Kiiko Watanabe

Final table

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Romania Romania 7 7 0 7
2 England England 7 6 1 6
3 Japan Japan 7 5 2 5
4 United States United States 7 4 3 4
5 South Korea South Korea 7 3 4 3
6 China China 7 2 5 2
7 Hong Kong Hong Kong 7 1 6 1
8 India India 7 0 7 0

Decisive Group Match

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Romania Romania 3 England England 1 Score
Zeller lost to Haydon 9–21 21–23
Rozeanu bt Haydon 19–21 21–18 21–18
Rozeanu bt Rowe D 21–11 21–18
Rozeanu & Zeller bt Haydon & Rowe D 21–19 21–14

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 2018-05-09.
  4. ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  5. ^ "1956 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.