1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team
1973 Swaythling Cup (men's team) | |
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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 |
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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 |
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1 | Sweden | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
2 | China | 6 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
3 | Hungary | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
4 | South Korea | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
5 | Indonesia | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
6 | Austria | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
7 | India | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Group B
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Japan | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
2 | Soviet Union | 6 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
3 | Czechoslovakia | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
4 | Yugoslavia | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
5 | West Germany | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
6 | England | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
7 | France | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Final group
Team One | Team Two | Score |
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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 |
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1 | Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 4 |
2 | China | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 4 |
3 | Japan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 2 |
4 | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 2 |
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
- ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "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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