1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1985 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 38th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

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

Medalists

Chen Longcan Chen Xinhua Jiang Jialiang Wang Huiyuan Xie Saike

Mikael Appelgren Ulf Bengtsson Ulf Carlsson Erik Lindh Jan-Ove Waldner

Stefan Dryszel Andrzej Grubba Andrzej Jakubowicz Leszek Kucharski Norbert Mnich

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	Poland	7	5	2	5
3	Czechoslovakia	7	4	3	4
4	North Korea	7	4	3	4
5	South Korea	7	3	4	3
6	Hong Kong	7	2	5	2
7	Hungary	7	2	5	2
8	United States	7	1	6	1

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Sweden	7	7	0	7
2	Japan	7	6	1	6
3	France	7	5	2	5
4	Yugoslavia	7	4	3	4
5	England	7	3	4	3
6	India	7	2	5	2
7	Italy	7	1	6	1
8	Denmark	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

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

Third-place playoff

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Poland	Japan	5–3

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Sweden 0	width=250	Score
Chen Xinhua	bt	Lindh	21–16 21–16
Jiang Jialiang	bt	Appelgren	21–18 20–22 21–15
Chen Longcan	bt	Waldner	21–11 11–21 21–19
Jiang Jialiang	bt	Lindh	21–18 21–19
Chen Xinhua	bt	Waldner	21–17 14–21 21–14

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: 1985 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-28. 2020-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920174519/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1984-85/tt_issue351.pdf. dead.