1975 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1975 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1975 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 33rd edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Yugoslavia 5–3 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Li Peng Li Chen-shih Liang Geliang Lu Yuan-sheng Hsu Shao-fa

Milivoj Karakašević Zoran Kosanović Miran Savnić Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek

Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson Bo Persson Ulf Thorsell Ingemar Wikström

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	14
2	Sweden	7	6	1	12
3	Soviet Union	7	5	2	10
4	West Germany	7	4	3	8
5	South Korea	7	3	4	6
6	France	7	2	5	4
7	Denmark	7	1	6	2
8	Austria	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	7	7	0	14
2	Yugoslavia	7	6	1	12
3	Hungary	7	5	2	10
4	Japan	7	4	3	8
5	England	7	3	4	6
6	Romania	7	2	5	4
7	Indonesia	7	1	6	2
8	India	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	5–3
China	Sweden	5–2

Third-place playoff

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Sweden	Czechoslovakia	5–4

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Yugoslavia 3	width=250	Score
Lu Yuan-sheng	lost to	Stipančić	26–28 17–21
Li Chen-shih	bt	Karakašević	21–16 21–19
Hsu Shao-fa	lost to	Šurbek	23–21 16–21 14–21
Li Chen-shih	bt	Stipančić	21–12 21–8
Lu Yuan-sheng	bt	Šurbek	21–10 22–20
Hsu Shao-fa	bt	Karakašević	21–14 21–17
Li Chen-shih	lost to	Šurbek	20–22 17–21
Hsu Shao-fa	bt	Stipančić	21–16 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. 2018-04-27. 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: 1975 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-27. 2017-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170618115059/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1974-75/tt_issue268.pdf. dead.