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1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 19th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

1952 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Hungary won the gold medal defeating England 5–4 in the final. Japan and Hong Kong won a bronze medal after finishing second in their respective groups.[3][4][5]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  Hungary
Elemer Gyetvai
József Kóczián
Ferenc Sidó
Kálmán Szepesi
László Várkonyi 		  England
Richard Bergmann
Adrian Haydon
Johnny Leach
Aubrey Simons
Harry Venner 		  Japan
Daisuke Daimon
Norikazu Fujii
Tadaaki Hayashi
Hiroji Satoh
  Hong Kong
Cheng Kwok Wing
Chung Chin Sing
Fu Chi Fong
Keung Wing Ning
Suh Sui Cho

Swaythling Cup tables edit

Group A edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   England 7 7 0 14
2   Japan 7 6 1 12
3   France 7 5 2 10
4   India 7 4 3 8
5   Germany 7 3 4 6
6   Portugal 7 2 5 4
7   Cambodia 7 1 6 2
8   Pakistan 7 0 7 0

Group B edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Hungary 6 6 0 12
2   Hong Kong 6 5 1 10
3   Vietnam 6 4 2 8
4   Brazil 6 3 3 6
5   Singapore 6 2 4 4
6   Chile 6 1 5 2
7   Afghanistan 6 0 6 0
8   Burma + 0 0 0 0
8   Korea + 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Final edit

  Hungary 5   England 4 Score Match score
Szepesi lost to Leach 21–8 14–21 15–21 0–1
Kóczián bt Simons+ 21–7 21–16 1–1
Sidó lost to Bergmann 16–21 17–21 1–2
Kóczián bt Leach 21–18 21–15 2–2
Szepesi lost to Bergmann 13–21 6–21 2–3
Sidó bt Simons+ w/o tie conceded 3–3
Kóczián lost to Bergmann 12–21 19–21 3–4
Sidó bt Leach 21–19 21–17 4–4
Szepesi bt Simons+ 23–21 9–21 21–16 5–4

+ Simons picked up an injury during the game against Kóczián and had to concede the match against Sidó. With the match at 4–4, he had no choice but to play his third match with the injury.[6]

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 2018-04-19.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  6. ^ "1952 Swaythling Cup Final report" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
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