1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1981 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 36th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Hungary 5–2 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Cai Zhenhua Guo Yuehua Shi Zhihao Wang Huiyuan Xie Saike

Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz Zsolt Kriston

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

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Japan	Hungary	1–5
China	Czechoslovakia	5–0

Third-place playoff

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

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Hungary 2	width=250	Score
Shi Zhihao	lost to	Jónyer	17–21 21–23
Xie Saike	bt	Jónyer	21–15 21–19
Cai Zhenhua	bt	Klampár	21–17 22–24 22–20
Shi Zhihao	lost to	Klampár	21–13 17–21 19–21
Xie Saike	bt	Klampár	15–21 21–16 21–15
Xie Saike	bt	Gergely	21–17 22–24 22–20
Cai Zhenhua	bt	Gergely	21–16 14–21 21–15

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. 2018-04-28. 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. 2018-04-28. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
6. Web site: 1981 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-05-12. 2017-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170618115138/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1980-81/tt_issue319.pdf. dead.