1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 38th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

1985 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–0 in the final. Poland won the bronze medal.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Chen Longcan
Chen Xinhua
Jiang Jialiang
Wang Huiyuan
Xie Saike
  Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Ulf Bengtsson
Ulf Carlsson
Erik Lindh
Jan-Ove Waldner
  Poland
Stefan Dryszel
Andrzej Grubba
Andrzej Jakubowicz
Leszek Kucharski
Norbert Mnich

Swaythling Cup tables edit

Group A edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 7 7 0 7
2   Poland 7 5 2 5
3   Czechoslovakia 7 4 3 4
4   North Korea 7 4 3 4
5   South Korea 7 3 4 3
6   Hong Kong 7 2 5 2
7   Hungary 7 2 5 2
8   United States 7 1 6 1

Group B edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Sweden 7 7 0 7
2   Japan 7 6 1 6
3   France 7 5 2 5
4   Yugoslavia 7 4 3 4
5   England 7 3 4 3
6   India 7 2 5 2
7   Italy 7 1 6 1
8   Denmark 7 0 7 0

Semifinals edit

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Poland 5–3
China Japan 5–0

Third-place playoff edit

Team One Team Two Score
Poland Japan 5–3

Final edit

  China 5   Sweden 0 Score
Chen Xinhua bt Lindh 21–16 21–16
Jiang Jialiang bt Appelgren 21–18 20–22 21–15
Chen Longcan bt Waldner 21–11 11–21 21–19
Jiang Jialiang bt Lindh 21–18 21–19
Chen Xinhua bt Waldner 21–17 14–21 21–14

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 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  6. ^ "1985 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-28.