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1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 32nd edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1973 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1973 World Table Tennis Championships

Sweden won the gold medal by virtue of winning the final group. Despite losing one of the matches against the Soviet Union they topped the group with a superior match record. China took silver and Japan bronze.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team   Sweden
Stellan Bengtsson
Anders Johansson
Kjell Johansson
Bo Persson
Ingemar Wikström 		  China
Tiao Wen-yuan
Li Ching-kuang
Liang Ko-liang
Hsi En-ting
Hsu Shao-Fa 		  Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Yujiro Imano
Mitsuru Kohno
Norio Takashima
Tokio Tasaka

Swaythling Cup tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Sweden 6 6 0 12
2   China 6 5 1 10
3   Hungary 6 4 2 8
4   South Korea 6 3 3 6
5   Indonesia 6 2 4 4
6   Austria 6 1 5 2
7   India 6 0 6 0

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 6 6 0 12
2   Soviet Union 6 5 1 10
3   Czechoslovakia 6 4 2 8
4   Yugoslavia 6 3 3 6
5   West Germany 6 2 4 4
6   England 6 1 5 2
7   France 6 0 6 0

Final group

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Team One Team Two Score
Japan Sweden 3–5
China Sweden 4–5
Soviet Union Sweden 5–4
Soviet Union Japan 2–5
Soviet Union China 4–5
Japan China 4–5

Final group

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Pos Team P W L F A Pts
1   Sweden 3 2 1 14 12 4
2   China 3 2 1 14 13 4
3   Japan 3 1 2 12 12 2
4   Soviet Union 3 1 2 11 14 2

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 2018-04-27.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. ^ "1973 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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