1957 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1957 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1957 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 24th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal defeating Hungary 5–2 in the final. China and Czechoslovakia won bronze medals after elimination from the semi-final round.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

	Toshihiko Miyata Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Keisuke Tsunoda	Zoltán Berczik László Földy Elemér Gyetvai Miklós Péterfy Ferenc Sidó	Fu Chi Fong Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Wang Chuanyao Chuang Chia-Fu
			Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba František Tokár Ludvík Vyhnanovský

Swaythling Cup tables

Group 1

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	14
2	Romania	7	6	1	12
3	India	7	5	2	10
4	Belgium	7	4	3	8
5	Scotland	7	2	5	4
5	Switzerland	7	2	5	4
5	Portugal	7	2	5	4
8	Luxembourg	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	Japan	8	8	0	16
2	South Vietnam	8	7	1	14
3	Sweden	8	6	2	12
4	Poland	8	5	3	10
5	Iran	8	4	4	8
6	France	8	3	5	6
7	Finland	8	2	6	4
8	Canada	8	1	7	2
9	South Africa	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	7	7	0	14
2	United States	7	5	2	10
2	Brazil	7	5	2	10
2	Germany	7	5	2	10
5	Australia	7	3	4	6
6	Italy	7	2	5	4
7	Norway	7	1	6	2
8	Denmark	7	0	7	0

Group 4

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	Yugoslavia	7	6	1	12
3	England	7	4	3	8
3	Austria	7	4	3	8
5	Netherlands	7	3	4	6
6	Wales	7	2	5	4
6	Spain	7	2	5	4
8	Lebanon	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	China	5–1
Hungary	Czechoslovakia	5–0

Final

width=150	Japan 5	width=100		width=150	Hungary 2	width=250	Score
Ogimura	bt	Sidó	21–17 22–20
Ogimura	bt	Berczik	21–14 21–11
Tanaka	bt	Földy	21–19 22–20
Tanaka	lost to	Sidó	17–21 12–21
Tanaka	bt	Berczik	20–22 21–19 21–19
Tsunoda	lost to	Berczik	14–21 16–21
Tsunoda	bt	Földy	21–13 11–21 26–24

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. 2018-04-23. 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. 2018-04-23. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1957 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England.