1954 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1954 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1954 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 21st edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–4 in the decisive final group match. England won the bronze medal after finishing third in the final group.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Kazuo Kawai Ichiro Ogimura Kichiji Tamasu Yoshio Tomita

Ivan Andreadis Josef Posejpal Adolf Šlár Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba

Richard Bergmann Kenneth Craigie Johnny Leach Aubrey Simons Harry Venner

Swaythling Cup tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	England	8	8	0	16
2	United States	8	6	2	12
3	France	8	6	2	12
4	Brazil	8	5	3	10
5	Austria	8	4	4	8
6	Wales	8	2	6	4
7	Israel	8	2	6	4
8	Pakistan	8	1	7	2
9	Italy	8	0	8	0

Group 2

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	8	8	0	16
2	Hungary	8	7	1	14
3	Romania	8	6	2	12
4	India	8	5	3	10
5	Egypt	8	4	4	8
6	Netherlands	8	3	5	6
7	Spain	8	2	6	4
8	Portugal	8	1	7	2
9	Scotland	8	0	8	0

Group 3

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	Yugoslavia	8	7	1	14
3	Sweden	8	6	2	12
4	Germany	8	5	3	10
5	Ireland	8	4	4	8
6	Belgium	8	3	5	6
7	New Zealand	8	2	6	4
8	Australia	8	1	7	2
9	Switzerland	8	0	8	0

Final group

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	2	2	0	4
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	1	2
3	England	2	0	2	0

Decisive group match

width=150	Japan 5	width=100		width=150	Czechoslovakia 4	width=250	Score
Ogimura	lost to	Andreadis	13-21 19-21
Ogimura	bt	Štípek	21-18 17-21 21-14
Ogimura	bt	Tereba	21-14 21-15
Tamasu	lost to	Andreadis	13-21 19-21
Tamasu	bt	Štípek	21-18 17-21 21-14
Tamasu	bt	Tereba	21-14 21-15
Tomita	lost to	Andreadis	12-21 14-21
Tomita	lost to	Štípek	15-21 22-20 21-23
Tomita	bt	Tereba	21-15 21-10

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. 2018-04-22. 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. 2018-04-22. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1954 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England.