1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1977 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 34th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Kuo Yao-hua Huang Liang Li Chen-shih Liang Ke-liang Wang Jun

Tetsuo Inoue Mitsuru Kohno Masahiro Maehara Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka

Stellan Bengtsson Ake Gronlund Kjell Johansson Roger Lagerfeldt Ulf Thorsell

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	7	7	0	7
2	Hungary	7	6	1	6
3	West Germany	7	5	2	5
4	Czechoslovakia	7	4	3	4
5	France	7	3	4	3
6	England	7	2	5	2
7	Indonesia	7	1	6	1
8	Australia	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	Japan	7	7	0	7
2	Sweden	7	6	1	6
3	Yugoslavia	7	5	2	5
4	Soviet Union	7	4	3	4
5	Poland	7	2	5	2
6	South Korea	7	2	5	2
7	Denmark	7	2	5	2
8	Romania	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	Hungary	5–3
China	Sweden	5–0

Third-place playoff

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Sweden	Hungary	5–1

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Japan 0	width=250	Score
Huang Liang	bt	Maehara	21–16 21–14
Huang Liang	bt	Kono	21–13 21–15
Liang Ke-liang	bt	Kono	21–3 12–21 21–11
Kuo Yao-hua	bt	Takashima	21–8 21–7
Kuo Yao-hua	bt	Maehara	21–11 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. 2018-04-27. 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: 1977 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-27. 2017-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170618112305/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1976-77/tt_issue287.pdf. dead.