1979 World Table Tennis Championships
# 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 |
