title: 1979 World Table Tennis Championships
text: # 1979 World Table Tennis Championships
  
  The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Pyongyang from April 25 to May 6, 1979.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Team
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Swaythling Cup Men's Team | Hungary Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz János Takács | China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Lu Qiwei | Japan Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima |
  | Corbillon Cup Women's team | China Cao Yanhua Ge Xin'ai Zhang Deying Zhang Li | North Korea Hong Gil-Soon Li Song Suk Pak Yong-Ok Pak Yung-Sun | Japan Kayoko Kawahigashi Yoshiko Shimauchi Kayo Sugaya Shoko Takahashi |
  
  ### Individual
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Men's singles | Seiji Ono | Guo Yuehua | Liang Geliang |
  | Men's singles | Seiji Ono | Guo Yuehua | Li Zhenshi |
  | Women's singles | Ge Xin'ai | Li Song Suk | Tong Ling |
  | Women's singles | Ge Xin'ai | Li Song Suk | Zhang Deying |
  | Men's doubles | Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek | István Jónyer Tibor Klampár | Li Zhenshi Wang Huiyuan |
  | Men's doubles | Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek | István Jónyer Tibor Klampár | Guo Yuehua Liang Geliang |
  | Women's doubles | Zhang Deying Zhang Li | Ge Xin'ai Yan Guili | Li Song-suk Ro Jong-suk |
  | Women's doubles | Zhang Deying Zhang Li | Ge Xin'ai Yan Guili | Erzsebet Palatinus Gordana Perkučin |
  | Mixed doubles | Liang Geliang Ge Xin'ai | Li Zhenshi Yan Guili | Wang Huiyuan Zhang Deying |
  | Mixed doubles | Liang Geliang Ge Xin'ai | Li Zhenshi Yan Guili | Jacques Secrétin Claude Bergeret |
  