1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1973 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 32nd edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Sweden won the gold medal by virtue of winning the final group. Despite losing one of the matches against the Soviet Union they topped the group with a superior match record. China took silver and Japan bronze.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Men's team

Stellan Bengtsson Anders Johansson Kjell Johansson Bo Persson Ingemar Wikström

Nobuhiko Hasegawa Yujiro Imano Mitsuru Kohno Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Sweden	6	6	0	12
2	China	6	5	1	10
3	Hungary	6	4	2	8
4	South Korea	6	3	3	6
5	Indonesia	6	2	4	4
6	Austria	6	1	5	2
7	India	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	Japan	6	6	0	12
2	Soviet Union	6	5	1	10
3	Czechoslovakia	6	4	2	8
4	Yugoslavia	6	3	3	6
5	West Germany	6	2	4	4
6	England	6	1	5	2
7	France	6	0	6	0

Final group

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	Sweden	3–5
China	Sweden	4–5
Soviet Union	Sweden	5–4
Soviet Union	Japan	2–5
Soviet Union	China	4–5
Japan	China	4–5

Final group

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	F	width=20	A	width=20	Pts
1	Sweden	3	2	1	14	12	4
2	China	3	2	1	14	13	4
3	Japan	3	1	2	12	12	2
4	Soviet Union	3	1	2	11	14	2

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. 2018-04-27. 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. 2018-04-27. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1973 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-27. 2020-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200926125556/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1972-73/tt_issue255.pdf. dead.