1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 35th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1979 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Hungary won the gold medal defeating China 5–1 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  Hungary
Gábor Gergely
István Jónyer
Tibor Klampár
Tibor Kreisz
János Takács
  China
Guo Yuehua
Huang Liang
Li Zhenshi
Liang Geliang
Lu Qiwei
  Japan
Hiroyuki Abe
Hideo Gotoh
Masahiro Maehara
Seiji Ono
Norio Takashima

Swaythling Cup tables edit

Group A edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Hungary 8 8 0 8
2   China 8 7 1 7
3   France 8 5 3 5
4   South Korea 8 5 3 5
5   Yugoslavia 8 4 4 4
6   West Germany 8 4 4 4
7   Poland 8 2 6 1
8   United States 8 1 7 0
9   Romania 8 0 8 0

Group B edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Czechoslovakia 7 7 0 7
2   Japan 7 6 1 6
3   Soviet Union 7 4 3 4
4   Sweden 7 4 3 4
5   England 7 3 4 3
6   Australia 7 2 5 2
7   Denmark 7 2 5 2
8   Hong Kong 7 0 7 0

Semifinals edit

Team One Team Two Score
Japan Hungary 1–5
China Czechoslovakia 5–2

Third-place play off edit

Team One Team Two Score
Japan Czechoslovakia 5–3

Final edit

  Hungary 5   China 1 Score
Gergely bt Guo Yuehua 21–10 21–18
Jónyer bt Lu Qiwei 21–12 21–19
Klampár bt Li Zhenshi 21–17 21–11
Jónyer lost to Guo Yuehua 21–17 19–21 19–21
Gergely bt Li Zhenshi 13–21 21–9 21–17
Klampár bt Lu Qiwei 17–21 21–10 21–11

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 2018-04-27.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. ^ "1979 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-27.