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1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 26th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1961 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–3 in the decisive final group match. Hungary won the bronze medal after finishing third in the final group.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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Team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team   China
Li Fu-jung
Jung Kuo-tuan
Wang Chuanyao
Hsu Yin-sheng
Chuang Tse-tung 		  Japan
Nobuya Hoshino
Koji Kimura
Teruo Murakami
Ichiro Ogimura
Goro Shibutani 		  Hungary
Zoltán Berczik
László Földy
Miklós Péterfy
Péter Rózsás
Ferenc Sidó

Swaythling Cup tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 8 8 0 16
2   East Germany 8 7 1 14
3   West Germany 8 6 2 12
4   Czechoslovakia 8 5 3 10
5   Burma 8 4 4 8
6   Ecuador 8 3 5 6
7   Ghana 8 2 6 4
8   Nepal 8 1 7 2
9   Mongolia 8 0 8 0

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Hungary 7 7 0 14
2   Sweden 7 6 1 12
3   Romania 7 5 2 10
4   Poland 7 4 3 8
5   Denmark 7 3 4 6
6   Australia 7 1 6 2
6   North Vietnam 7 1 6 2
6   Nigeria 7 1 6 2

Group C

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 8 9 0 18
2   Yugoslavia 8 6 2 12
2   England 8 6 2 12
4   Russia 8 6 3 12
5   North Korea 8 5 4 10
6   Brazil 8 5 4 10
7   Singapore 8 3 6 6
8   New Zealand 8 1 8 2
9   Cuba 8 1 8 2

Final group results

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Team One Team Two Score
Japan Hungary 5–2
China Hungary 7–2
China Japan 5–3

Final standings

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 2 2 0 4
2   Japan 2 1 1 2
3   Hungary 3 0 2 0

Decisive final group match

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  China 5   Japan 3 Score
Chuang Tse-tung bt Hoshino 21–14 24–22
Chuang Tse-tung bt Ogimura 21–13 21–13
Hsu Yin-sheng lost to Kimura 21–17 17–21 17–21
Hsu Yin-sheng bt Ogimura 21–7 210-8
Hsu Yin-sheng bt Hoshino 21–23 21–18 21–17
Jung Kuo-tuan lost to Ogimura 19–21 19–21
Jung Kuo-tuan lost to Kimura 11–21 21–15 17–21
Jung Kuo-tuan bt Hoshino 21–15 20–22 21–18

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  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 2018-04-24.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  6. ^ "1961 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
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