1926 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1926 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
Location:	London
Next:	1928

See main article: 1926 World Table Tennis Championships.

The 1926 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the first edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

The cup was named the Swaythling Cup because it was named after the Dowager Lady Swaythling (the mother of Ivor Montagu) who presented the trophy to the English Table Tennis Association in 1926.^[3]

Hungary defeated Austria 5-4 in a play off for the gold medal following the fact that they tied with five wins each in the main competition. The winning team consisted of Roland Jacobi, Zoltán Mechlovits, Béla von Kehrling and Daniel Pecsi.

Swaythling Cup results

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width=200	Team one	width=200	Team two	width=100	Score
Austria	Czechoslovakia	7-2
Austria	England	4-5
Austria	Germany	9-0
Austria	Hungary	5-4
Austria	India	7-2
Austria	Wales	7-2
Czechoslovakia	England	0-9
Czechoslovakia	Germany	5-4
Czechoslovakia	Hungary	1-8
Czechoslovakia	India	2-7
Czechoslovakia	Wales	2-7
England	Germany	8-1
England	Hungary	2-7
England	India	4-5
England	Wales	5-4
Germany	Hungary	0-9
Germany	India	4-5
Germany	Wales	2-7
Hungary	India	8-1
Hungary	Wales	7-2
Wales	India	4-5

Final Table

width=20	Pos	width=200	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=600	Squad
1	Hungary	6	5	1	Roland Jacobi, Béla von Kehrling, Zoltán Mechlovits, Daniel Pecsi
2	Austria	6	5	1	Paul Flussmann, Eduard Freudenheim, Munio Pillinger
3	England	6	4	2	Charles Allwright, Bernard Bernstein, Percival Bromfield, Frank Burls, James Thompson
3	India	6	4	2	Athar-Ali Fyzee, Hassan Ali Fyzee, A.M. Peermahomed, B.C. Singh, S.R.G. Suppiah
5	Wales	6	2	4	Herbert Geen, Cyril Mossford, Hedley Penny, Solly Stone, C.F. Williams
6	Czechoslovakia	6	1	5	Bohumil Hájek, Jaroslav Kautsky, Zdeněk Heydušek, Antonín Maleček
7	Germany	6	0	6	Curt Gerstmann, Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt, Daniel Prenn

Final Play Off

width=150	Austria 4	width=150	Hungary 5	width=200	Scores
Flussmann	Mechlovits	16-21 23-21 18-21
Flussmann	Pecsi	21-14 18-21 16-21
Flussmann	von Kehrling	21-16 21-19
Freudenheim	Mechlovits	15-21 11-21
Freudenheim	Pecsi	15-21 13-21
Freudenheim	von Kehrling	21-18 12-21 21-18
Pillinger	Mechlovits	21-12 24-22
Pillinger	Pecsi	21-17 21-13
Pillinger	von Kehrling	18-21 21-11 16-21

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of Winners. All About Tennis.
2. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
3. Web site: Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis Collector. 2018-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20180223171424/https://d3mjm6zw6cr45s.cloudfront.net/2017/11/Table-Tennis-Collector-33.pdf. 2018-02-23. dead.