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1971 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team)
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The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 31st edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–2 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Li Fu-jung
Li Ching-kuang
Liang Ko-liang
Hsi En-ting
Chuang Tse-tung
 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Tokio Tasaka
 Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Milivoj Karakašević
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek

Swaythling Cup Tables

Second Stage Round

Group 1

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 5 5 0 10
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 5 4 1 8
3 West Germany West Germany 5 3 2 6
4 South Korea South Korea 5 2 3 4
5 England England 5 1 4 2
6 Indonesia Indonesia 5 0 5 0

Group 2

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 5 5 0 10
2 Sweden Sweden 5 4 1 8
3 Hungary Hungary 5 3 2 6
4 France France 5 2 3 4
5 North Korea North Korea 5 1 4 2
6 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 0 5 0

Third Place play off

Team One Team Two Score
Yugoslavia Sweden 5-3

Final

China China 5 Japan Japan 2 Score
Liang Ko-liang lost to Hasegawa 21-15 8-21 19-21
Liang Ko-liang bt Itoh 21-11 21-15
Chuang Tse-tung bt Itoh 21-19 17-21 21-15
Chuang Tse-tung lost to Kono 12-21 16-21
Li Ching-kuang bt Kono 21-13 21-18
Li Ching-kuang bt Hasegawa 15-21 21-19 21-18
Li Ching-kuang bt Itoh 21-3 21-6

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. ^ "1971 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.