1949 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1949 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1949 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 16th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Hungary won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–4 in the final.^[3] England and the United States both won bronze medals by virtue of finishing second in their groups.^{[4] [5]}

Medalists

Team

Men's team	József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó Ferenc Soos László Várkonyi		Viktor Barna Richard Bergmann Johnny Leach Ronald Sharman Aubrey Simons
			Douglas Cartland James McClure Richard Miles Marty Reisman

Swaythling Cup tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Hungary	7	7	0	7
2	United States	7	6	1	6
3	France	7	5	2	5
4	Yugoslavia	7	4	3	4
5	Wales	7	3	4	3
6	Luxembourg	7	2	5	2
7	Norway	7	1	6	1
8	Finland	7	0	7	0

+ Poland and Egypt both withdrew from Group 1

Group 2

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	9	9	0	9
2	England	9	8	1	8
3	Sweden	9	7	2	7
4	Austria	9	6	3	6
5	Netherlands	9	5	4	5
6	Italy	9	4	5	4
7	Switzerland	9	3	6	3
8	Brazil	9	2	7	2
9	Denmark	9	1	8	1
10	Scotland	9	0	9	0

Final

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width=150	Hungary 5	width=100		width=150	Czechoslovakia 4	width=250	Score
Kóczián	bt	Štípek	21 -13 15-21 21-16
Kóczián	bt	Andreadis	21-18 21-16
Kóczián	lost to	Váňa	21-19 9-21 19-21
Soos	lost to	Andreadis	15-21 7-21
Soos	lost to	Váňa	12-21 11-21
Soos	bt	Štípek	16-21 21-12 21-17
Sidó	lost to	Váňa	19-21 21-16 20-22
Sidó	bt	Štípek	20-22 21-18 21-18
Sidó	bt	Andreadis	21-16 18-21 21-11

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, pp. 699–700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
3. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-04-15. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
5. Web site: 1949 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-15. 2020-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925140430/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1948-49/tt_issue56.pdf. dead.
6. Web site: 1949 Swaythling Cup Final results. Table Tennis England.