1969 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1969 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
1969 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 30th edition of the men's team championship.^[1] ^[2]

Japan won the gold medal defeating West Germany 5–3 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off. The Chinese team were again absent.^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Tetsuo Inoue Shigeo Itoh Kenji Kasai Mitsuru Kono	West Germany Bernt Jansen Wilfried Lieck Martin Ness Eberhard Schöler	Yugoslavia Zlatko Cordas Istvan Korpa Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek Edvard Vecko

Swaythling Cup tables

Second stage round

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	5	5	0	10
2	Yugoslavia	5	4	1	8
3	England	5	3	2	6
4	Soviet Union	5	2	3	4
5	Hungary	5	1	4	2
6	Denmark	5	0	5	0

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	West Germany	5	5	0	10
2	South Korea	5	3	3	6
3	Sweden	5	3	2	6
4	Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	6
5	France	5	1	4	2
6	Ireland	5	0	5	0

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
Yugoslavia	South Korea	5–0

Final

Japan 5		West Germany 3	Score
Kono	bt	Jansen	15–21 21–16 12–21
Hasegawa	bt	Lieck	22–20 21–13
Itoh	lost to	Schöler	17–21 21–8 12–21
Kono	bt	Schöler	23–21 14–21 21–17
Hasegawa	lost to	Jansen	18–21 17–21
Itoh	bt	Lieck	21–16 21–17
Hasegawa	lost to	Schöler	21–15 13–21 17–21
Kono	bt	Lieck	21–13 21–16

References

^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
^ "1969 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-26.

[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 2018-04-26.

[5] "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.

[6] "1969 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-26.

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