title: 1981 World Table Tennis Championships
text: # 1981 World Table Tennis Championships
  
  The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) from April 14 to April 26, 1981.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Team
  
  | 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 |
  
  ### Individual
  
  | 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 |
  