1981 World Games

Host City Santa Clara
Country USA
Held 24 July – 2 August 1981
Competitors 26
Countries 10

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men — Medal 4 4
Doubles Men — Medal 8 4
Singles Women — Medal 4 4
Doubles Women — Medal 8 4
Doubles Mixed — Medal 8 5

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 China CHN 4 0 0 4
2 Mixed team MIX 1 0 0 1
3 England ENG 0 2 0 2
4 Denmark DEN 0 1 2 3
5 South Korea KOR 0 1 1 2
6 Sweden SWE 0 1 0 1
7 Indonesia INA 0 0 3 3
8 Japan JPN 0 0 2 2
9 India IND 0 0 1 1
= Scotland SCO 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Chen Changjie CHN Morten Frost DEN Prakash Padukone
Liem Swie King 		IND
INA
Doubles, Men Sun Zhian / Yao Ximing CHN Thomas Kihlström / Stefan Karlsson SWE William Gilliland / Daniel Travers
Hariamanto Kartono / Rudy Heryanto 		SCO
INA
Doubles, Mixed Gillian Gilks / Thomas Kihlström MIX Nora Perry / Michael Tredgett ENG Imelda Wiguna / Christian Hadinata
Lene Køppen / Steen Skovgaard 		INA
DEN
Singles, Women Zhang Ailing CHN Hwang Seon-Ae KOR Lene Køppen
Fumiko Tokairin 		DEN
JPN
Doubles, Women Zhang Ailing / Liu Xia CHN Nora Perry / Jane Webster ENG Hwang Seon-Ae / Kim Yeon-Ja
Fumiko Tokairin / Sonoe Otsuka 		KOR
JPN