1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 15th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1948 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
LocationWembley, London
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Czechoslovakia won the gold medal defeating France 5–2 in the final.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists edit

Team edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup   Czechoslovakia
Ivan Andreadis
Max Marinko
Ladislav Štípek
František Tokár
Bohumil Váňa
  France
Guy Amouretti
Maurice Bordrez
Charles Dubouillé
Michel Haguenauer
Eugène Manchiska
  Austria
Heinrich Bednar
Rudolf Diwald
Otto Eckl
Heribert Just
Herbert Wunsch
  United States
Richard Miles
Garrett Nash
William Price
Marty Reisman

Swaythling Cup tables edit

Pool A edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   United States 4 4 0 4
2   England 4 3 1 3
3   Hungary 4 2 2 2
4   Sweden 4 1 3 1
5   Jersey 4 0 4 0
6   India + 0 0 0 0

+withdrew

Pool B edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Czechoslovakia 5 5 0 5
2   Egypt 5 4 1 4
3   Wales 5 3 2 3
4   Scotland 5 2 3 2
5   Greece 5 1 4 1
6   Norway 5 0 5 0

Pool C edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Austria 5 5 0 5
2   Yugoslavia 5 4 1 4
3   Belgium 5 3 2 3
4   Netherlands 5 2 3 2
5   Luxembourg 5 1 4 1
6   Italy 5 0 5 0
7   Jewish Palestine + 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Pool D edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   France 3 3 0 3
2   Ireland 3 2 1 2
3   Denmark 3 1 2 1
4   Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 3 0
5   Portugal + 0 0 0 0
6   Argentina + 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Semifinals edit

Team One Team Two Score
  Czechoslovakia   United States 5-2
  France   Austria 5-1

Final edit

  Czechoslovakia 5   France 2 Score
Andreadis bt Amouretti 17-21 21-9 21-13
Andreadis bt Haguenauer 21-18 21-15
Štípek lost to Bordrez 18-21 16-21
Štípek lost to Haguenauer 19-21 17-21
Váňa bt Amouretti 21-6 21-16
Váňa bt Bordrez 21-9 21-5
Váňa bt Haguenauer 21-13 21-12

See also edit

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

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 2018-04-13.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-13.