1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1987 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 39th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–0 in the final. Jan-Ove Waldner and Mikael Appelgren were both missing from the final due to stomach complaints. North Korea won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Chen Longcan Chen Xinhua Jiang Jialiang Teng Yi Wang Hao

Mikael Appelgren Ulf Carlsson Erik Lindh Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner

Chu Jong-Chol Hong Chol Hong Sun Kim Song-hui Li Gun-Sang

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	3	3	0	3
2	West Germany	3	2	1	2
3	England	3	1	2	1
4	France	3	0	3	0

Group B

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Sweden	3	3	0	3
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	1	2
3	South Korea	3	1	2	1
4	Czechoslovakia	3	0	3	0

Group C

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	Yugoslavia	3	3	0	3
2	Poland	3	2	1	2
3	Soviet Union	3	1	2	1
4	Austria	3	0	3	0

Group D

width=15	Pos	width=250	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts
1	North Korea	3	3	0	3
2	Japan	3	2	1	2
3	Hungary	3	1	2	1
4	India	3	0	3	0

Quarter finals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Poland	North Korea	4–5
China	Japan	5–0
Sweden	West Germany	5–4
Chinese Taipei	Yugoslavia	2–5

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Sweden	North Korea	5-?
China	Yugoslavia	5–0

Third-place playoff

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North Korea	Yugoslavia	5-?

Final

width=150	China 5	width=100		width=150	Sweden 0	width=250	Score
Jiang Jialiang	bt	Carlsson	21–12 19–21 21–12
Teng Yi	bt	Lindh	21–15 21–15
Chen Longcan	bt	Persson	21–19 21–14
Jiang Jialiang	bt	Lindh	19–21 21–7 21–13
Chen Longcan	bt	Carlsson	22–20 21–10

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: 1987 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-28. 2020-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201115202055/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1986-87/tt_issue362.pdf. dead.