Badminton World Championship 1979 / men's team

At the 1979 World Badminton Championships, the smaller World Badminton Federation, WBF , held a team competition for men and women for the first time in June 1979 in Hangzhou . China won over Thailand in both team competitions.

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Men's team	People's Republic of China Yao Ximing Sun Zhi'an Yu Yaodong Luan Jin Lin Yixiong Luan Jin	Thailand Bandid Jaiyen Preecha Sopajaree Sawei Chanseorasmee Sarit Pisudchaikul	Pakistan Tariq Wadood Nadeem Ur Rahman Zahid Maqbool Javed Iqbal Hassan Shaheed

Group stage

Group 1

•  People's Republic of China - Sri Lanka 5-0 
•  Philippines - Sri Lanka 0: 5 

Group 2

•  Pakistan - Nepal 5: 0 
•  Pakistan - Ghana 5: 0 
•  Niger - Nepal 2: 3 

Group 3

•  Singapore - Bangladesh 5: 0 
•  Hong Kong - Kenya 5-0 
•  Singapore - Hong Kong 2: 3 
•  Bangladesh - Kenya 3: 2 

Group 4

•  Thailand - Mauritius 5: 0 
•  Burma - Tanzania 5: 0 
•  Tanzania - Mauritius 2: 3 
•  Thailand - Burma 5: 0 

Play for 5th place

•  Singapore - Nepal 5-0 

Semifinals

•  Pakistan - China 0: 5 
•  Thailand - Hong Kong 4-1 

Bronze game

•  Pakistan - Hong Kong 5: 0 

final

•  People's Republic of China - Thailand 4-1 

Web links

• http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19790617.2.80.1.aspx
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• http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19790614.1.29.aspx
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