1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 14th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1947 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Czechoslovakia won the gold medal defeating the United States 5–2 in the final. Austria and France won bronze medals by virtue of finishing second in their groups.[3] [4] [5]

Swaythling Cup table edit

Pool A edit

Pos Team P W L Squad
1   Czechoslovakia 8 8 0 Ivan Andreadis, Adolf Šlár, Václav Tereba, František Tokár, Bohumil Váňa
2   Austria 8 7 1 Heinrich Bednar, Otto Eckl, Johann Hartwich, Heribert Just, Ferdinand Schuech
3   Sweden 8 6 2 Tage Flisberg, Olsson, Arne Andersson, Per-Olof Croneryd, Ollen
4   Egypt 8 5 3 Moustapha, Hassan, Yehya, Hussein, Mansour
5   Ireland 8 4 4 Victor Mercer, Ivan Martin, Harry Thuillier, Harry O'Prey
6   Jewish Palestine 8 3 5 Samuel Schieff, Izio Rojzen, M. Goloub
7   Denmark 8 2 6 Christian Juhl, Leif Skovgård, Emil Moeller, Helmuth Jespersen, Willy Scott Nissen
8   Luxembourg 8 1 7 Metty Steimetz, Paul Oster, Fred Wirtz, Marcel Willmes, Nic Wiltzius
9   Scotland + 0 0 0 John Brown, Sidney Gillies, Peter Coia

+ withdrew

Pool B edit

Pos Team P W L Squad
1   United States 8 8 0 William Holzrichter, Richard Miles, Lou Pagliaro, Sol Schiff
2   France 8 7 1 Alex Agopoff, Guy Amouretti, Maurice Bordrez, Michel Haguenauer, Michel Lanskoy
3   Hungary 8 6 2 Ferenc Soos, Ferenc Sidó, Geza Eros, József Kóczián, László Várkonyi
4   England 8 5 3 Ernest Bubley, Benny Casofsky, Eric Filby, George 'Eli' Goodman, Johnny Leach
5   India 8 3 5 Sinaraman, Uttam Chandrana, Arun Kumar Ghosh, Vithal, Godrej
5   Belgium 8 3 5 Roger Lejeune, Jean Buyens, Raymond Evalenko, André Staf, Pierre De Kemper
7   Switzerland 8 2 6 Hugo Urchetti, Lucien Portal, Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen, Frei
7   Wales 8 2 6 Walter Sweetland, S. Jones, Gerald Chugg, Peter Burrows, Roy Evans
9   Netherlands 8 0 8 Cor Du Buy, André Thunnissen, Bep Van Ham, Wim Stoop, Will van Zoelen

Final edit

  Czechoslovakia 5   United States 2
Andreadis lost to Pagliaro
Váňa bt Pagliaro
Tereba lost to Schiff
Andreadis bt Schiff
Andreadis bt Miles
Tereba bt Miles
Váňa bt Miles

See also edit

References edit

  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 2018-04-12.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-12.