1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 34th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1977 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Kuo Yao-hua
Huang Liang
Li Chen-shih
Liang Ke-liang
Wang Jun
  Japan
Tetsuo Inoue
Mitsuru Kohno
Masahiro Maehara
Norio Takashima
Tokio Tasaka
  Sweden
Stellan Bengtsson
Ake Gronlund
Kjell Johansson
Roger Lagerfeldt
Ulf Thorsell

Swaythling Cup tables edit

Group A edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 7 7 0 7
2   Hungary 7 6 1 6
3   West Germany 7 5 2 5
4   Czechoslovakia 7 4 3 4
5   France 7 3 4 3
6   England 7 2 5 2
7   Indonesia 7 1 6 1
8   Australia 7 0 7 0

Group B edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 7 7 0 7
2   Sweden 7 6 1 6
3   Yugoslavia 7 5 2 5
4   Soviet Union 7 4 3 4
5   Poland 7 2 5 2
6   South Korea 7 2 5 2
7   Denmark 7 2 5 2
8   Romania 7 0 7 0

Semifinals edit

Team One Team Two Score
Japan Hungary 5–3
China Sweden 5–0

Third-place playoff edit

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Hungary 5–1

Final edit

  China 5   Japan 0 Score
Huang Liang bt Maehara 21–16 21–14
Huang Liang bt Kono 21–13 21–15
Liang Ke-liang bt Kono 21–3 12–21 21–11
Kuo Yao-hua bt Takashima 21–8 21–7
Kuo Yao-hua bt Maehara 21–11 23–21

See also edit

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 2018-04-27.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. ^ "1977 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-04-27.