North Korea and South Korea fielded a unified team under the name Korea (コリア[3][4]Koria), the first of all Unified Korean sporting teams. The women's Korean team captured the gold medal by topping China, winners of eight consecutive titles since 1975, 3–2 in the final.
Prior to the competition, North and South Korea discussed the possibility of the first unified football and table tennis teams since Korea's division. In February 1991, they agreed to the creation of the unified table tennis team to compete at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships.[5] According to Chang Ung, International Olympic Committee member from North Korea, the decision took 22 rounds of talks between the Koreas and five months.[6]
1991, world, table, tennis, championships, were, held, chiba, from, april, 1991, north, korea, south, korea, fielded, unified, team, under, name, korea, コリア, koria, first, unified, korean, sporting, teams, women, korean, team, captured, gold, medal, topping, c. The 1991 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Chiba from April 24 to May 6 1991 1 2 North Korea and South Korea fielded a unified team under the name Korea コリア 3 4 Koria the first of all Unified Korean sporting teams The women s Korean team captured the gold medal by topping China winners of eight consecutive titles since 1975 3 2 in the final Contents 1 Results 1 1 Team 1 2 Individual 2 Unified team of Korea 3 References 4 External linksResults EditTeam Edit Event Gold Silver BronzeSwaythling CupMen s Team Sweden Mikael AppelgrenPeter KarlssonErik LindhJorgen PerssonJan Ove Waldner Yugoslavia Zoran KalinicIlija LupuleskuZoran PrimoracRobert Smrekar Czechoslovakia Milan GrmanTomas JanciPetr JavurekPetr KorbelRoland VimiCorbillon CupWomen s Team KoreaHong Cha okHyun Jung hwaLi Bun huiYu Sun bok China Chen ZiheDeng YapingGao JunQiao Hong France Emmanuelle CoubatSandrine DerrienXiaoming Wang DrechouAgnes Le LannicIndividual Edit Event Gold Silver BronzeMen s singles Jorgen Persson Jan Ove Waldner Kim Taek Soo Ma WengeWomen s singles Deng Yaping Li Bun Hui Chan Tan Lui Qiao HongMen s doubles Peter Karlsson Thomas von Scheele Lu Lin Wang Tao Erik Lindh Jorgen Persson Andrei Mazunov Dmitry MazunovWomen s doubles Chen Zihe Gao Jun Deng Yaping Qiao Hong Ding Yaping Li Jun Hu Xiaoxin Liu WeiMixed doubles Wang Tao Liu Wei Xie Chaojie Chen Zihe Kim Song hui Li Bun Hui Kalinikos Kreanga Otilia BădescuUnified team of Korea EditPrior to the competition North and South Korea discussed the possibility of the first unified football and table tennis teams since Korea s division In February 1991 they agreed to the creation of the unified table tennis team to compete at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships 5 According to Chang Ung International Olympic Committee member from North Korea the decision took 22 rounds of talks between the Koreas and five months 6 The team used Korea Korean hangul 코리아 McCune Reischauer K oria Revised Romanization Koria Japanese コリア Koria 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 7 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 the women s team Hyun Jung Hwa was portrayed by Ha Ji won and Li Bun Hui by Bae Doona 5 8 References Edit World Championships Results ITTF Museum Archived from the original on 2017 04 24 Retrieved 13 April 2017 ITTF Statistics ittf com Retrieved 13 April 2017 permanent dead link Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine 1991年千葉世界卓球選手権大会 南北統一チーム コリア 女子団体優勝 YouTube Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine Table Tennis World Cup 1991 ダイジェスト YouTube a b 사상 최초 남북 단일팀의 통일의 기적 lt 코리아 gt the official blog of the Ministry of Unification South Korea N Korea refuses South s Olympic offer BBC News 26 June 2017 Retrieved 7 October 2017 탁구 남북 단일팀 우승 20주년 감동 다시 한번 2011 12 11 Yonhap News TV 코리아 Daum 영화 Archived 2016 03 05 at the Wayback Machine from Daum s movie portal External links EditITTF Museum Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1991 World Table Tennis Championships amp oldid 1102496822, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
