1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1959 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 25th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal defeating Hungary 5–1 in the final. China and South Vietnam won bronze medals after elimination from the semi-final round.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Men's team	Nobuya Hoshino Teruo Murakami Seiji Narita Ichiro Ogimura	Zoltán Berczik Zoltán Bubonyi László Földy László Pigniczki Ferenc Sidó	Chiang Yung-Ning Rong Guotuan Wang Chuanyao Xu Yinsheng Yang Jai-Hua
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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	7	7	0	14
2	Brazil	7	6	1	12
3	Romania	7	5	2	10
4	Poland	7	4	3	8
5	United States	7	3	4	6
6	Switzerland	7	2	5	4
7	Norway	7	1	6	2
8	Venezuela	7	0	7	0

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	8	8	0	16
2	Sweden	8	7	1	14
3	West Germany	8	6	2	12
4	UAR	8	5	3	10
5	Portugal	8	3	5	6
5	Belgium	8	3	5	6
7	Australia	8	2	6	4
8	Ireland	8	1	7	2
8	Jamaica	8	1	7	0

Group C

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	9	9	0	18
2	Yugoslavia	9	8	1	16
3	India	9	6	3	12
3	Austria	9	6	3	12
5	Netherlands	9	5	4	10
5	East Germany	9	5	4	10
7	Denmark	9	3	6	6
8	Italy	9	1	8	2
8	Luxembourg	9	1	8	2
8	Canada	9	1	8	2

Group D

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	South Vietnam	9	9	0	18
2	Czechoslovakia	9	8	1	16
3	England	9	7	2	14
4	France	9	6	3	12
5	Iran	9	5	4	10
6	Spain	9	4	5	8
7	Lebanon	9	3	6	6
8	Wales	9	2	7	4
9	Greece	9	1	8	2
10	Malta	9	0	9	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
		5–3
		5–3

Final

width=150	Japan 5	width=100		width=150	Hungary 1	width=250	Score
Murakami	bt	Sidó	14–21 21–10 21–17
Ogimura	bt	Bubonyi	21–18 17–21 21–13
Hoshino	bt	Berczik	21–17 21–12
Ogimura	lost to	Sidó	17–21 21–10 14–21
Murakami	bt	Berczik	21–23 21–18 21–17
Hoshino	bt	Burbonyi	21–13 21–13

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. 2018-04-24. 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. 2018-04-24. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1959 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-24. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926114147/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1958-59/tt_issue142.pdf. dead.