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1991 World Table Tennis Championships

1991 edition of the World Table Tennis Championships

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

North Korea and South Korea fielded a unified team under the name Korea (コリア 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.

Results

Team

[Corbillon Cup
Women's Team](1991-world-table-tennis-championships-women-s-team)	[[File:Unification flag of Korea (pre 2006).svg	23px	border	link=Korean Unification Flag]] Korea
Hong Cha-ok
Hyun Jung-hwa
Li Bun-hui
Yu Sun-bok	CHN
Chen Zihe
Deng Yaping
Gao Jun
Qiao Hong	FRA
Emmanuelle Coubat
Sandrine Derrien
Xiaoming Wang-Dréchou
Agnès Le Lannic

Individual

GRE Kalinikos Kreanga
ROU Otilia Bădescu

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. In February 1991, they agreed to the creation of the unified table tennis team to compete at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships. According to Chang Ung, International Olympic Committee member from North Korea, the decision took 22 rounds of talks between the Koreas and five months.

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. 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.

References

ITTF Museum. "Past World Championships Results".
"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".
"Table Tennis World Cup 1991 ダイジェスト".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045557/http://blog.unikorea.go.kr/2256 사상 최초 남북 단일팀의 통일의 기적 <코리아>], the official blog of the [[Ministry of Unification]], South Korea
(26 June 2017). "N Korea refuses South's Olympic offer". BBC News.
[http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=107&oid=001&aid=0005414095 탁구 남북 단일팀 우승 20주년..감동 다시 한번!] 2011-12-11, [[Yonhap News]] TV
link. (2016-03-05 (from [[Daum Communications). Daum]]'s movie portal)

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