1967 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1967 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 29th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

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

The Chinese team were unable to defend their title because of the Cultural Revolution.^{[7] [8]}

Medalists

Team

Semifinal round

Group 1

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1	North Korea	3	3	0	6
2	Sweden	3	2	1	4
3	Czechoslovakia	3	1	2	2
4	England	3	0	3	0

Group 2

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1	Japan	3	3	0	6
2	West Germany	3	2	1	4
3	Soviet Union	3	1	2	2
4	Yugoslavia	3	0	3	0

Third-place playoff

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Sweden	West Germany	5–2

Final

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Kono	lost to	Kim Chang-Ho	20–22 10–21
Hasegawa	bt	Jung Ryang-Woong	21–16 20–22 21–16
Kagimoto	bt	Pak Sin Il	21–19 21–15
Hasegawa	lost to	Kim Chang-Ho	21–18 18–21 14–21
Kono	bt	Pak Sin Il	21–17 21–7
Kagimoto	lost to	Jung Ryang-Woong	18–21 16–21
Hasegawa	bt	Pak Sin Il	21–16 21–16
Kagimoto	bt	Kim Chang-Ho	21–18 21–18

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. 2018-04-26. 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. 2018-04-26. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1967 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-26. 2021-01-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20210108102427/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1966-67/tt_issue207.pdf. dead.
7. Web site: In memory of China's 1st world champion Rong Guotuan. China Daily.
8. Book: Itoh, Mayumi. The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230118133.