1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1979 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 35th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Hungary won the gold medal defeating China 5–1 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz János Takács

Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Lu Qiwei

Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Hungary	8	8	0	8
2	China	8	7	1	7
3	France	8	5	3	5
4	South Korea	8	5	3	5
5	Yugoslavia	8	4	4	4
6	West Germany	8	4	4	4
7	Poland	8	2	6	1
8	United States	8	1	7	0
9	Romania	8	0	8	0

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	7
2	Japan	7	6	1	6
3	Soviet Union	7	4	3	4
4	Sweden	7	4	3	4
5	England	7	3	4	3
6	Australia	7	2	5	2
7	Denmark	7	2	5	2
8	Hong Kong	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	Hungary	1–5
China	Czechoslovakia	5–2

Third-place play off

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	Czechoslovakia	5–3

Final

width=150	Hungary 5	width=100		width=150	China 1	width=250	Score
Gergely	bt	Guo Yuehua	21–10 21–18
Jónyer	bt	Lu Qiwei	21–12 21–19
Klampár	bt	Li Zhenshi	21–17 21–11
Jónyer	lost to	Guo Yuehua	21–17 19–21 19–21
Gergely	bt	Li Zhenshi	13–21 21–9 21–17
Klampár	bt	Lu Qiwei	17–21 21–10 21–11

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: 1979 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-27. 2020-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925132401/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1978-79/tt_issue303.pdf. dead.