1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 39th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

1987 Swaythling Cup (men's team)

China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–0 in the final. Jan-Ove Waldner and Mikael Appelgren were both missing from the final due to stomach complaints. North Korea won the bronze medal.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Chen Longcan
Chen Xinhua
Jiang Jialiang
Teng Yi
Wang Hao
 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Ulf Carlsson
Erik Lindh
Jörgen Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner
 North Korea
Chu Jong-Chol
Hong Chol
Hong Sun
Kim Song-hui
Li Gun-Sang

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1China China3303
2West Germany West Germany3212
3England England3121
4France France3030

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1Sweden Sweden3303
2Taiwan Chinese Taipei3212
3South Korea South Korea3121
4Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia3030

Group C

Pos Team P W L Pts
1Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia3303
2Poland Poland3212
3Soviet Union Soviet Union3121
4Austria Austria3030

Group D

Pos Team P W L Pts
1North Korea North Korea3303
2Japan Japan3212
3Hungary Hungary3121
4India India3030

Quarter finals

Team One Team Two Score
PolandNorth Korea4–5
ChinaJapan5–0
SwedenWest Germany5–4
Chinese TaipeiYugoslavia2–5

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
SwedenNorth Korea5-?
ChinaYugoslavia5–0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
North KoreaYugoslavia5-?

Final

China China 5 Sweden Sweden 0 Score
Jiang JialiangbtCarlsson21–12 19–21 21–12
Teng YibtLindh21–15 21–15
Chen LongcanbtPersson21–19 21–14
Jiang JialiangbtLindh19–21 21–7 21–13
Chen LongcanbtCarlsson22–20 21–10

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 22 September 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  6. "1987 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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