1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

1983 Corbillon Cup (women's team)

Main article: 1983 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 30th edition of the women's team championship.

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 3–0 in the final, North Korea won the bronze medal.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Cao Yanhua Geng Lijuan Ni Xialian Tong Ling	Japan Mika Hoshino Emiko Kanda Fumiko Shinpo Tomoko Tamura	North Korea Chang Yong-ok Kim Gyong-sun Li Bun-Hui Li Song Suk

Final tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	North Korea	7	6	1	6
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	5
4	Netherlands	7	4	3	4
5	West Germany	7	2	5	2
6	Hungary	7	2	5	2
7	Yugoslavia	7	1	6	1
8	France	7	1	6	1

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	6	1	6
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	6
3	South Korea	7	6	1	6
4	England	7	4	3	4
5	Romania	7	3	4	3
6	Sweden	7	2	5	2
7	Finland	7	1	6	1
8	Austria	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Japan	North Korea	3–1
China	Soviet Union	3–0

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
North Korea	Soviet Union	3–1

Final

China 3		Japan 0	Score
Cao Yanhua	bt	Hoshino	21–13 21–17
Geng Lijuan	bt	Kanda	21–8 21–12
Cao Yanhua & Ni Xialian	bt	Shinpo & Tamura	21–16 21–8

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists