1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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

1971 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
Main article: 1971 World Table Tennis Championships

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
1Japan Japan55010
2Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia5418
3West Germany West Germany5326
4South Korea South Korea5234
5England England5142
6Indonesia Indonesia5050

Group 2
Pos Team P W L Pts
1China China55010
2Sweden Sweden5418
3Hungary Hungary5326
4France France5234
5North Korea North Korea5142
6Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia5050

Third-place playoff
Team One Team Two Score
YugoslaviaSweden5–3

Final
China China 5 Japan Japan 2 Score
Liang Ko-lianglost toHasegawa21–15 8–21 19–21
Liang Ko-liangbtItoh21–11 21–15
Chuang Tse-tungbtItoh21–19 17–21 21–15
Chuang Tse-tunglost toKono12–21 16–21
Li Ching-kuangbtKono21–13 21–18
Li Ching-kuangbtHasegawa15–21 21–19 21–18
Li Ching-kuangbtItoh21–3 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, 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. "1971 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
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