1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 34th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1977 Swaythling Cup (men's team)

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Kuo Yao-hua
Huang Liang
Li Chen-shih
Liang Ke-liang
Wang Jun
 Japan
Tetsuo Inoue
Mitsuru Kohno
Masahiro Maehara
Norio Takashima
Tokio Tasaka
 Sweden
Stellan Bengtsson
Ake Gronlund
Kjell Johansson
Roger Lagerfeldt
Ulf Thorsell

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1China China7707
2Hungary Hungary7616
3West Germany West Germany7525
4Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia7434
5France France7343
6England England7252
7Indonesia Indonesia7161
8Australia Australia7070

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1Japan Japan7707
2Sweden Sweden7616
3Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia7525
4Soviet Union Soviet Union7434
5Poland Poland7252
6South Korea South Korea7252
7Denmark Denmark7252
8Romania Romania7070

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
JapanHungary5–3
ChinaSweden5–0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
SwedenHungary5–1

Final

China China 5 Japan Japan 0 Score
Huang LiangbtMaehara21–16 21–14
Huang LiangbtKono21–13 21–15
Liang Ke-liangbtKono21–3 12–21 21–11
Kuo Yao-huabtTakashima21–8 21–7
Kuo Yao-huabtMaehara21–11 23–21

See also

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 2018-04-27.
  5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. "1977 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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