1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's doubles

The 1997 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles was the 44th edition of the men's doubles championship. [1] [2] Kong Linghui and Liu Guoliang won the title after defeating Jörgen Persson and Jan-Ove Waldner in the final by three sets to two.[3]

1997 Men's doubles
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Results edit

[2]

Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
  Kong Linghui
  Liu Guoliang
22 21
  Wenguan Johnny Huang
  Ilija Lupulesku
20 19   Kong Linghui
  Liu Guoliang
17 21 21 21
  Peter Karlsson
  Thomas von Scheele
13 21 10   Samsonov
  Roßkopf
21 12 13 10
  Jörg Roßkopf
  Vladimir Samsonov
21 17 21   Kong Linghui
  Liu Guoliang
22 21 21
  Jean-Philippe Gatien
  Damien Éloi
21 21   Gatien
  Éloi
20 7 9
  Trinko Keen
  Danny Heister
14 19   Gatien
  Éloi
21 21 12 22
  Dmitry Mazunov
  Andrei Mazunov
21 19 13   Yan Sen
  Wang Liqin
10 10 21 20
  Yan Sen
  Wang Liqin
15 21 21   Kong Linghui
  Liu Guoliang
19 21 18 21 21
  Wang Tao
  Ma Lin
21 21   Waldner
  Persson
21 15 21 13 17
  Slobodan Grujić
  Aleksandar Karakašević
17 18   Wang Tao
  Ma Lin
15 19 15
  Patrick Chila
  Christophe Legoût
21 15 15   Matsushita
  Shibutani
21 21 21
  Kōji Matsushita
  Hiroshi Shibutani
19 21 21   Matsushita
  Shibutani
19 21 18 21 18
  Werner Schlager
  Karl Jindrak
14 21 21   Waldner
  Persson
21 13 21 18 21
  Lin Zhigang
  Wang Fei
21 11 19   Schlager
  Jindrak
21 19 25 16
  Kalinikos Kreanga
  Zoran Primorac
15 14   Waldner
  Persson
19 21 27 21
  Jan-Ove Waldner
  Jörgen Persson
21 21

See also edit

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References edit

  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Table Tennis.
  2. ^ a b "1997 results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  3. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.