Jump to content

1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Pikamander2 (talk | contribs) at 09:02, 28 November 2022 (→See also). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

1977 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
← 1975
1979 →
Main article: 1977 World Table Tennis Championships

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

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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

Group A

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

Group B

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

Semifinals

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

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Hungary 5–1

Final

China China 5 Japan 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

References

  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.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1977_World_Table_Tennis_Championships_–_Men%27s_team&oldid=1124314995"