1969 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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

1969 Swaythling Cup (men's team)

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

Second stage round

Group 1

Pos Team P W L Pts
1Japan Japan55010
2Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia5418
3England England5326
4Soviet Union Soviet Union5234
5Hungary Hungary5142
6Denmark Denmark5050

Group 2

Pos Team P W L Pts
1West Germany West Germany55010
2South Korea South Korea5336
3Sweden Sweden5326
4Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia5326
5France France5142
6Republic of Ireland Ireland5050

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
YugoslaviaSouth Korea5–0

Final

Japan Japan 5 West Germany West Germany 3 Score
KonobtJansen15–21 21–16 12–21
HasegawabtLieck22–20 21–13
Itohlost toSchöler17–21 21–8 12–21
KonobtSchöler23–21 14–21 21–17
Hasegawalost toJansen18–21 17–21
ItohbtLieck21–16 21–17
Hasegawalost toSchöler21–15 13–21 17–21
KonobtLieck21–13 21–16

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, 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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