1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 38th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

1985 Swaythling Cup (men's team)

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

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Chen Longcan
Chen Xinhua
Jiang Jialiang
Wang Huiyuan
Xie Saike
 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Ulf Bengtsson
Ulf Carlsson
Erik Lindh
Jan-Ove Waldner
 Poland
Stefan Dryszel
Andrzej Grubba
Andrzej Jakubowicz
Leszek Kucharski
Norbert Mnich

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1China China7707
2Poland Poland7525
3Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia7434
4North Korea North Korea7434
5South Korea South Korea7343
6Hong Kong Hong Kong7252
7Hungary Hungary7252
8United States United States7161

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1Sweden Sweden7707
2Japan Japan7616
3France France7525
4Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia7434
5England England7343
6India India7252
7Italy Italy7161
8Denmark Denmark7070

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
SwedenPoland5–3
ChinaJapan5–0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
PolandJapan5–3

Final

China China 5 Sweden Sweden 0 Score
Chen XinhuabtLindh21–16 21–16
Jiang JialiangbtAppelgren21–18 20–22 21–15
Chen LongcanbtWaldner21–11 11–21 21–19
Jiang JialiangbtLindh21–18 21–19
Chen XinhuabtWaldner21–17 14–21 21–14

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 2018-04-28.
  5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  6. "1985 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
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