1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 37th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1983 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–1 in the final. Hungary won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Cai Zhenhua
Fan Changmao
Guo Yuehua
Jiang Jialiang
Xie Saike
  Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Stellan Bengtsson
Ulf Bengtsson
Erik Lindh
Jan-Ove Waldner
  Hungary
Gábor Gergely
István Jónyer
Zoltán Káposztás
Zsolt Kriston
János Molnár

Swaythling Cup tables

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Group A

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

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1   England 7 6 1 6
2   Hungary 7 6 1 6
3   Japan 7 6 1 6
4   North Korea 7 4 3 4
5   Poland 7 3 4 3
6   Italy 7 2 5 2
7   Soviet Union 7 1 6 1
8   Denmark 7 0 7 0

Semifinals

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Team One Team Two Score
Sweden England 5–0
China Hungary 5–0

Third-place playoff

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Team One Team Two Score
Hungary England 5–2

Final

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  China 5   Sweden 1 Score
Jiang Jialiang bt Waldner 18–21 21–17 21–14
Jiang Jialiang bt Appelgren 21–10 21–13
Cai Zhenhua bt Lindh 21–14 21–14
Cai Zhenhua bt Waldner 30–28 21–16
Xie Saike lost to Appelgren 18–21 21–19 14–21
Xie Saike bt Lindh 17–21 21–13 21–9

See also

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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 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  6. ^ "1983 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-28.