1979 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Pyongyang from April 25 to May 6, 1979.^[1]

1979 World Table Tennis Championships

Events
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
Team	men	women
1977 1981
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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	Hungary Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz János Takács	China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Lu Qiwei	Japan Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima
Corbillon Cup Women's team	China Cao Yanhua Ge Xin'ai Zhang Deying Zhang Li	North Korea Hong Gil-Soon Li Song Suk Pak Yong-Ok Pak Yung-Sun	Japan Kayoko Kawahigashi Yoshiko Shimauchi Kayo Sugaya Shoko Takahashi

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Seiji Ono	Guo Yuehua	Liang Geliang
Men's singles	Seiji Ono	Guo Yuehua	Li Zhenshi
Women's singles	Ge Xin'ai	Li Song Suk	Tong Ling
Women's singles	Ge Xin'ai	Li Song Suk	Zhang Deying
Men's doubles	Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Li Zhenshi Wang Huiyuan
Men's doubles	Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek	István Jónyer Tibor Klampár	Guo Yuehua Liang Geliang
Women's doubles	Zhang Deying Zhang Li	Ge Xin'ai Yan Guili	Li Song-suk Ro Jong-suk
Women's doubles	Zhang Deying Zhang Li	Ge Xin'ai Yan Guili	Erzsebet Palatinus Gordana Perkučin
Mixed doubles	Liang Geliang Ge Xin'ai	Li Zhenshi Yan Guili	Wang Huiyuan Zhang Deying
Mixed doubles	Liang Geliang Ge Xin'ai	Li Zhenshi Yan Guili	Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret

v t e World Table Tennis Championships
Individual and team	London 1926 Stockholm 1928 Budapest 1929 Berlin 1930 Budapest 1931 Prague 1932 Baden 1933 Paris 1934 Wembley 1935 Prague 1936 Baden 1937 Wembley 1938 Cairo 1939 Paris 1947 Wembley 1948 Stockholm 1949 Budapest 1950 Vienna 1951 Bombay 1952 Bucharest 1953 Wembley 1954 Utrecht 1955 Tokyo 1956 Stockholm 1957 Dortmund 1959 Beijing 1961 Prague 1963 Ljubljana 1965 Stockholm 1967 Munich 1969 Nagoya 1971 Sarajevo 1973 Calcutta 1975 Birmingham 1977 Pyongyang 1979 Novi Sad 1981 Tokyo 1983 Gothenburg 1985 New Delhi 1987 Dortmund 1989 Chiba 1991 Gothenburg 1993 Tianjin 1995 Manchester 1997 Osaka 2001
Individual only	Eindhoven 1999 Paris 2003 Shanghai 2005 Zagreb 2007 Yokohama 2009 Rotterdam 2011 Paris 2013 Suzhou 2015 Düsseldorf 2017 Budapest 2019 Houston 2021 Durban 2023 Doha 2025
Team only	Kuala Lumpur 2000 Doha 2004 Bremen 2006 Guangzhou 2008 Moscow 2010 Dortmund 2012 Tokyo 2014 Kuala Lumpur 2016 Halmstad 2018 ~~Busan 2020~~ Chengdu 2022 Busan 2024 London 2026
List of medalists

Team