1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1973 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
Main article: 1973 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 32nd edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

Sweden won the gold medal by virtue of winning the final group. Despite losing one of the matches against the Soviet Union they topped the group with a superior match record. China took silver and Japan bronze.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Sweden
Stellan Bengtsson
Anders Johansson
Kjell Johansson
Bo Persson
Ingemar Wikström 		 China
Tiao Wen-yuan
Li Ching-kuang
Liang Ko-liang
Hsi En-ting
Hsu Shao-Fa 		 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Yujiro Imano
Mitsuru Kohno
Norio Takashima
Tokio Tasaka

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Sweden Sweden 6 6 0 12
2 China China 6 5 1 10
3 Hungary Hungary 6 4 2 8
4 South Korea South Korea 6 3 3 6
5 Indonesia Indonesia 6 2 4 4
6 Austria Austria 6 1 5 2
7 India India 6 0 6 0

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 6 6 0 12
2 Soviet Union Soviet Union 6 5 1 10
3 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 6 4 2 8
4 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 6 3 3 6
5 West Germany West Germany 6 2 4 4
6 England England 6 1 5 2
7 France France 6 0 6 0

Final group

Team One Team Two Score
Japan Sweden 3–5
China Sweden 4–5
Soviet Union Sweden 5–4
Soviet Union Japan 2–5
Soviet Union China 4–5
Japan China 4–5

Final group

Pos Team P W L F A Pts
1 Sweden Sweden 3 2 1 14 12 4
2 China China 3 2 1 14 13 4
3 Japan Japan 3 1 2 12 12 2
4 Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 1 2 11 14 2

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  4. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. ^ "1973 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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