1950 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1950 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1950 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 17th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Czechoslovakia won the gold medal defeating Hungary 5–3 in the final. England and France both won a bronze medal after finishing second in their respective groups.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Team

	Ivan Andreadis Max Marinko Václav Tereba František Tokár Bohumil Váňa	József Farkas József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó Ferenc Soos László Várkonyi	Richard Bergmann Bernard Crouch Johnny Leach Aubrey Simons Harry Venner
			Alex Agopoff Michel Haguenauer Michel Lanskoy René Roothooft

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Hungary	6	6	0	12
2	France	6	5	1	10
3	Switzerland	6	4	2	8
4	India	6	3	3	6
5	Israel	6	2	4	4
6	Italy	6	1	5	2
7	Denmark	6	0	6	0

+ United States and Netherlands both withdrew from Group A

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	8	8	0	16
2	England	8	7	1	14
3	Sweden	8	6	2	12
4	Austria	8	5	3	10
5	Poland	8	4	4	8
6	Wales	8	3	5	6
7	Brazil	8	2	6	4
8	Ireland	8	1	7	2
9	New Zealand	8	0	8	0

Final

width=150	Czechoslovakia 5	width=100		width=150	Hungary 3	width=250	Score
Andreadis	lost to	?	?
Andreadis	bt	Kóczián	21-19 19-21 21-15
Váňa	lost to	Sidó	16-21 13-21
Váňa	bt	Kóczián	21-10 21-9
Váňa	bt	Soos	21-14 21-16
Tereba	lost to	Soos	18-21 19-21
Tereba	bt	Sidó	27-25 22-20
Tereba	bt	Kóczián	w/o+

+ Kóczián withdrew injured after suffering from badly blistered feet

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. 2018-04-16. 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. 2018-04-16. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1950 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-16. 2020-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920175848/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1949-50/tt_issue65.pdf. dead.