1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1955 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 22nd edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–3 in the final. England and Hungary won bronze medals after being defeated in the semi-finals.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

	Ichiro Ogimura Kichii Tamasu Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita	Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Bohumil Váňa Ludvik Vyhnanovsky	László Földy József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó Josef Somogyi Kálmán Szepesi
			Richard Bergmann Brian Kennedy Johnny Leach Bryan Merrett Alan Rhodes

Swaythling Cup tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	14
2	France	7	6	1	12
3	Brazil	7	4	3	8
4	Netherlands	7	4	3	8
5	Egypt	7	3	4	6
6	Italy	7	3	4	6
7	Guernsey	7	1	6	0
8	Jersey	7	0	7	0

Group 2

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Hungary	7	7	0	14
2	United States	7	6	1	12
3	Sweden	7	5	2	10
4	Bulgaria	7	4	3	8
5	Portugal	7	3	4	6
6	Ireland	7	2	5	4
7	Denmark	7	1	6	2
8	Finland	7	0	6	0

Group 3

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	7	7	0	14
2	Yugoslavia	7	6	1	12
3	Vietnam	7	5	2	10
4	Austria	7	4	3	8
5	Australia	7	3	4	6
6	Belgium	7	2	5	4
7	Scotland	7	1	6	2
8	Norway	7	0	6	0

Group 4

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	England	7	7	0	14
2	Romania	7	6	1	12
3	Germany	7	5	2	10
4	Switzerland	7	4	3	8
5	Spain	7	3	4	6
6	Wales	7	2	5	4
7	Saarland	7	1	6	2
8	Lebanon	7	0	6	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team two	width=50	Score
Czechoslovakia	England	5-1
Japan	Hungary	5-4

Final

width=150	Japan 5	width=100		width=150	Czechoslovakia 3	width=250	Score
Ogimura	lost to	Andreadis	19-21 19-21
Ogimura	bt	Štípek	22-20 21-19
Ogimura	bt	Váňa	21-18 21-18
Tanaka	lost to	Andreadis	15-21 20-22
Tanaka	bt	Štípek	21-12 21-17
Tanaka	bt	Váňa	21-9 21-18
Tamasu	lost to	Andreadis	12-21 19-21
Tamasu	bt	Štípek	21-17 22-20
Tamasu	v	Váňa	not played

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: 1955 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England.