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

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	China Guo Yuehua	China Cai Zhenhua	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Šurbek
Sweden Stellan Bengtsson
Women's singles	China Tong Ling	China Cao Yanhua	China Zhang Deying
South Korea Lee Soo-ja
Men's doubles	China Cai Zhenhua China Li Zhenshi	China Guo Yuehua China Xie Saike	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Antun Stipančić Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Šurbek
France Patrick Birocheau France Jacques Secrétin
Women's doubles	China Cao Yanhua China Zhang Deying	China Pu Qijuan China Tong Ling	South Korea An Hae-sook South Korea Hwang Nam-sook
China Huang Junqun China Yan Guili
Mixed doubles	China Xie Saike China Huang Junqun	China Chen Xinhua China Tong Ling	China Huang Liang China Pu Qijuan
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Šurbek Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Branka Batinić