1991 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1991 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Chiba from April 24 to May 6, 1991.[1][2]

Results

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Peter Karlsson
Erik Lindh
Jörgen Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner
 Yugoslavia
Zoran Kalinić
Ilija Lupulesku
Zoran Primorac
Robert Smrekar
 Czechoslovakia
Milan Grman
Tomas Janci
Petr Javurek
Petr Korbel
Roland Vimi
Women's team Korea
Hong Cha-Ok
Hyun Jung-Hwa
Li Bun-Hui
Yu Sun-Bok
 China
Chen Zihe
Deng Yaping
Gao Jun
Qiao Hong
 France
Emmanuelle Coubat
Sandrine Derrien
Xiaoming Drechou
Agnes Le Lannic

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Sweden Jörgen Persson Sweden Jan-Ove Waldner Kim Taek-Soo
China Ma Wenge
Women's singles China Deng Yaping Li Bun-Hui Hong Kong Chan Tan Lui
China Qiao Hong
Men's doubles Sweden Peter Karlsson
Sweden Thomas von Scheele
China Lü Lin
China Wang Tao
Sweden Erik Lindh
Sweden Jörgen Persson
Soviet Union Andrei Mazunov
Soviet Union Dmitry Mazunov
Women's doubles China Chen Zihe
China Gao Jun
China Deng Yaping
China Qiao Hong
China Ding Yaping
China Li Jun
China Hu Xiaoxin
China Liu Wei
Mixed doubles China Wang Tao
China Liu Wei
China Xie Chaojie
China Chen Zihe
Kim Song-Hui
Li Bun-Hui
Greece Kalinikos Kreanga
Romania Otilia Badescu

Unified team of Korea

Prior to the competition, North and South Korea discussed the possibility of the first unified football and table tennis teams since Korea's division. On February 1991, they agreed to the creation of the unified table tennis team to compete at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships.[3]

The team used "Korea" (Korean hangul: 코리아, McCune–Reischauer: K'oria, Revised Romanization: Koria from its English name. See Names of Korea) as the country name avoiding Hanguk (한국) or Chosŏn (조선). It also used the Korean Unification Flag as the national flag and Arirang as the national anthem.[4] Upon defeating the supposedly "unbeatable" Chinese team, the women's team caused a big sensation in Korea.

A South Korean movie Korea (코리아) ("As one") was released on May 3, 2012 and describes the story of women's team. Hyun Jung-Hwa was portrayed by Ha Ji-won and Li Bun-Hui by Bae Doona.[3][5]

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