1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1963 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 27th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–1 in the final. West Germany and Sweden both won a bronze medal after being eliminated at the semi-final stage.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Team

	Li Fu-jung Wang Chia-Sheng Hsu Yin-sheng Chang Shih-lin Chuang Tse-tung	Koji Kimura Ken Konaka Keiichi Miki Ichiro Ogimura	Erich Arndt Ernst Gomolla Dieter Michalek Eberhard Schöler Elmar Stegmann
			Hans Alsér Stellan Bengtsson Carl-Johan Bernhardt Kjell Johansson

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	6	6	0	12
2	Yugoslavia	6	5	1	10
3	Iran	6	4	2	8
4	Soviet Union	6	3	3	6
5	Denmark	6	2	4	4
6	Israel	6	1	5	2
7	Greece	6	0	6	0

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	West Germany	7	7	0	14
2	Korea	7	6	1	12
3	Hungary	7	5	2	10
4	Romania	7	4	3	8
5	France	7	2	5	4
5	Brazil	7	2	5	4
5	Australia	7	2	5	4
8	Indonesia	7	0	7	0

Group C

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Sweden	7	7	0	14
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	12
3	East Germany	7	5	2	10
4	Portugal	7	4	3	8
5	Austria	7	3	4	6
6	UAR	7	2	5	4
7	Switzerland	7	1	6	2
8	Wales	7	0	7	0

Group D

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	6	6	0	12
2	United States	6	5	1	10
3	England	6	4	2	8
4	India	6	3	3	6
5	Poland	6	2	4	4
6	Netherlands	6	1	5	2
7	North Vietnam	6	0	6	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
China	West Germany	5–1
Japan	Sweden	5–0

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Japan 1	width=250	Score
Chuang Tse-tung	lost to	Kimura	20–22 21–13 13–21
Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Ogimura	21–19 21–19
Chang Shih-lin	bt	Kimura	21–5 21–11
Chang Shih-lin	bt	Miki	21–9 21–8
Hsu Yin-sheng	bt	Ogiumra	21–11 21–17
Hsu Yin-sheng	bt	Miki	21–12 23–21

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. 2018-04-25. 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. 2018-04-25. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1963 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-25. 2017-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170618230012/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1962-63/tt_issue175.pdf. dead.