1928 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1928 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1928 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the second edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Hungary defeated Austria and England 5–2 in a three way final playoff for the gold medal. The three teams had tied in the main pool, finishing with a 7-1 match record.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Final table

width=15	Pos	width=150	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=600	Squad
1	Austria	8	7	1	Paul Flussmann, Alfred Liebster, Munio Pillinger, Robert Thum
2	Hungary	8	7	1	Laszlo Bellak, Sándor Glancz, Roland Jacobi, Zoltán Mechlovits, Daniel Pecsi
3	England	8	7	1	Charles Allwright, Charles Bull, Adrian Haydon, Charles Mase, Fred Perry,
4	Latvia	8	5	3	Mordecai Finberg, Arnold Oschin, Rosenthal I, Rosenthal II
5	Sweden	8	4	4	Valter Kolmodin, Hille Nilsson, Ragnar Söderholz
6	Czechoslovakia	8	3	5	Erwin Fleischmann, Kurt Heller, Antonín Maleček, Bedřich Nikodém
7	Germany	8	2	6	D Baumgarten, Herbert Caro, Heribert Haensch, Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt, Paul Mendel
8	Wales	8	1	7	Trevor Coles, Herbert Geen, Cyril Mossford, Hedley Penny, Solly Stone
9	India	8	0	8	H.N Bhorucha, S.A Ismael, S.R.G. Suppiah,

Final Playoffs

The final consisted of a three-way playoff between Hungary, Austria and England who all finished with a 7–2 record in the main table.

width=150	Austria 5	width=150	England 2	width=200	Scores
Thum	Bull	21-08 24-22
Thum	Haydon	21-14 09-21 18-21
Thum	Perry	17-21 21-16 21-13
Flussmann	Bull	18-21 21-17 21-14
Flussmann	Haydon	23-25 21-18 17-21
Liebster	Bull	21-19 07-21 21-19
Liebster	Haydon	21-14 18-21 21-12

width=150	Austria 2	width=150	Hungary 5	width=200	Scores
Thum	Mechlovits	19-21 18-21
Thum	Glancz	10-21 17-21
Thum	Bellak	21-11 21-15
Liebster	Mechlovits	18-21 15-21
Liebster	Glancz	21-19 23-21
Pillinger	Mechlovits	13-21 21-17 17-21
Pillinger	Bellak	12-21 20-22

width=150	England 2	width=150	Hungary 5	width=200	Scores
Bull	Mechlovits	21-19 11-21 21-11
Bull	Glancz	17-21 21-17 21-17
Bull	Ballak	14-21 21-12 18-21
Allwright	Mechlovits	21-18 13-21 11-21
Allwright	Bellak	17-21 16-21
Haydon	Glancz	09-21 13-21
Haydon	Bellak	10-21 10-21

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. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-04-02. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
5. Web site: Swaythling Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-04-02. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.