2004 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Women's team
| 2004 women's team (Corbillon Cup) | |
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The 2004 World Table Tennis Championships – women's team (Corbillon Cup) was the 40th edition of the women's team championship.[1][2]
China won the gold medal defeating Hong Kong in the final 3–0. Japan won the bronze medal.[3][4] The International Table Tennis Association introduced a new format for the second stage of the tournament.
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
 ChinaZhang Yining Guo Yue Wang Nan Niu Jianfeng Li Ju |
 Hong KongLau Sui-fei Song Ah Sim Zhang Rui Tie Ya Na Yu Kwok See |
 JapanAi Fujinuma Ai Fukuhara Sayaka Hirano Naoko Taniguchi Aya Umemura |
First stage
Group A
| Pos | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | China
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| 2 |  South Korea
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| 3 |  Germany
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| 4 |  Russia
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| 5 |  Singapore
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| 6 |  Chinese Taipei
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Group B
| Pos | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong
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| 2 | Japan
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| 3 |  Romania
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| 4 |  Hungary
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| 5 |  Italy
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| 6 |  Belarus
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Final stage
Final
| 6 March 2004 16:00 |
Report | China
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3–0 | Hong Kong
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Qatar International Exhibition Center, Doha |
| Score by game: | |||||
| Wang Nan | 3–2 | Lau Sui-fei | |||
| Zhang Yining | 3–1 | Tie Ya Na | |||
| Guo Yue | 3–1 | Zhang Rui | |||
Final 4 bracket
| First round | Final eliminator | Final | |||||||||||
| A1 | China | 3 | A1 | China | 3 | ||||||||
| B1 | Japan | 2 | B2 | Hong Kong | 0 | ||||||||
| B1 | Japan | 0 | |||||||||||
| B2 | Hong Kong | 3 | |||||||||||
| A2 | South Korea | 2 | |||||||||||
| B2 | Hong Kong | 3 | |||||||||||
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
- ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-30.