1981 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) from April 14 to April 26, 1981.^[1]

1981 World Table Tennis Championships

Events
Singles	men	women
Doubles	men	women	mixed
Team	men	women
1979 1983
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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swaythling Cup Men's Team	China Cai Zhenhua Guo Yuehua Shi Zhihao Wang Huiyuan Xie Saike	Hungary Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz Zsolt Kriston	Japan Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima
Corbillon Cup Women's team	China Cao Yanhua Qi Baoxiang Tong Ling Zhang Deying	South Korea An Hae-sook Hwang Nam-sook Kim Kyung-ja Lee Soo-ja	North Korea Kim Gyong-sun Li Song Suk Pak Yung-Sun

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Guo Yuehua	Cai Zhenhua	Dragutin Šurbek
Men's singles	Guo Yuehua	Cai Zhenhua	Stellan Bengtsson
Women's singles	Tong Ling	Cao Yanhua	Zhang Deying
Women's singles	Tong Ling	Cao Yanhua	Lee Soo-ja
Men's doubles	Cai Zhenhua Li Zhenshi	Guo Yuehua Xie Saike	Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek
Men's doubles	Cai Zhenhua Li Zhenshi	Guo Yuehua Xie Saike	Patrick Birocheau Jacques Secrétin
Women's doubles	Cao Yanhua Zhang Deying	Pu Qijuan Tong Ling	An Hae-sook Hwang Nam-sook
Women's doubles	Cao Yanhua Zhang Deying	Pu Qijuan Tong Ling	Huang Junqun Yan Guili
Mixed doubles	Xie Saike Huang Junqun	Chen Xinhua Tong Ling	Huang Liang Pu Qijuan
Mixed doubles	Xie Saike Huang Junqun	Chen Xinhua Tong Ling	Dragutin Šurbek Branka Batinić

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