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1967 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 29th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1967 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1967 World Table Tennis Championships

Japan won the gold medal defeating North Korea 5–3 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal after winning third place play off.[3] [4] [5] [6]

The Chinese team were unable to defend their title because of the Cultural Revolution.[7] [8]

Medalists

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Team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
  Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Hajime Kagimoto
Satoru Kawahara
Koji Kimura
Mitsuru Kono 		  North Korea
Jung Ryang-Woong
Kang Neung-Hwa
Kim Chang-Ho
Kim Jung-Sam
Pak Sin Il 		  Sweden
Hans Alsér
Carl-Johan Bernhardt
Christer Johansson
Kjell Johansson
Bo Persson

Swaythling Cup tables

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Semifinal round

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Group 1

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   North Korea 3 3 0 6
2   Sweden 3 2 1 4
3   Czechoslovakia 3 1 2 2
4   England 3 0 3 0

Group 2

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 3 3 0 6
2   West Germany 3 2 1 4
3   Soviet Union 3 1 2 2
4   Yugoslavia 3 0 3 0

Third-place playoff

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Team One Team Two Score
Sweden West Germany 5–2

Final

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  Japan 5   North Korea 3 Score
Kono lost to Kim Chang-Ho 20–22 10–21
Hasegawa bt Jung Ryang-Woong 21–16 20–22 21–16
Kagimoto bt Pak Sin Il 21–19 21–15
Hasegawa lost to Kim Chang-Ho 21–18 18–21 14–21
Kono bt Pak Sin Il 21–17 21–7
Kagimoto lost to Jung Ryang-Woong 18–21 16–21
Hasegawa bt Pak Sin Il 21–16 21–16
Kagimoto bt Kim Chang-Ho 21–18 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 2018-04-26.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  6. ^ "1967 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  7. ^ "In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan". China Daily.
  8. ^ Itoh, Mayumi (2011). The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230118133.
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