1965 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1965 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1965 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 28th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–2 in the final. North Korea won the bronze medal after defeating Yugoslavia in the third place play off.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Team

Semifinal round

Group 1

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
China	Soviet Union	5–0
West Germany	Romania	5–4
Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	5–2
China	West Germany	5–1
Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	5–3
Yugoslavia	Romania	5-1
China	Yugoslavia	5–0
Soviet Union	West Germany	5–4
Romania	Czechoslovakia	5–3
Yugoslavia	West Germany	5–3
China	Czechoslovakia	5–0
Soviet Union	Romania	5–3
Czechoslovakia	West Germany	5–1
Yugoslavia	Soviet Union	5-3
China	Romania	5–0

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	China	5	5	0	10
2	Yugoslavia	5	4	1	8
3	Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	4
4	Soviet Union	5	2	3	4
5	West Germany	5	1	4	2
6	Romania	5	1	4	2

Group 2

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	England	5–0
Sweden	Iran	5–1
North Korea	Hungary	5–1
England	Hungary	5–4
North Korea	Iran	5–3
Japan	Sweden	5-0
Sweden	England	5–2
Hungary	Iran	5–1
Japan	North Korea	5–2
England	Iran	5–1
Japan	Hungary	5–1
North Korea	Sweden	5–1
Sweden	Hungary	5-1
North Korea	England	5–1
Japan	Iran	5–0

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Japan	5	5	0	10
2	North Korea	5	4	1	8
3	Sweden	5	3	2	6
4	England	5	2	3	4
5	Hungary	5	1	4	2
6	Iran	5	0	5	0

Third-place playoff

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North Korea	Yugoslavia	5–2

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Japan 2	width=250	Score
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Li Fu-jung	bt	Kimura
Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Kimura
Chang Shih-lin	lost to	Takahashi
Chuang Tse-tung	lost to	Takahashi	18–21 20–22
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Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Konaka	19–21 21–12 21–16

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: 1965 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-25. 2020-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920175615/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1964-65/tt_issue191.pdf. dead.