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1979 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team)
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Main article: 1979 World Table Tennis Championships

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

Hungary won the gold medal defeating China 5-1 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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

Group A

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

Group B

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

Semi Finals

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

Third Place play off

Team One Team Two Score
Japan Czechoslovakia 5-3

Final

Hungary Hungary 5 China 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

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  4. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
  6. ^ "1979 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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