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

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1 China 3 303
2 West Germany 321 2
3 England 3 1 2 1
4 France 3 03 0

Group B

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1 Sweden 3 303
2 Chinese Taipei 321 2
3 South Korea3 1 2 1
4 Czechoslovakia 3 03 0

Group C

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1 Yugoslavia 3 303
2 Poland 321 2
3 Soviet Union 3 1 2 1
4 Austria 3 03 0

Group D

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1 North Korea 3 303
2 Japan 321 2
3 Hungary 3 1 2 1
4 India 3 03 0

Quarter finals

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Poland North Korea 4–5
China Japan 5–0
Sweden West Germany 5–4
Chinese Taipei Yugoslavia 2–5

Semifinals

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Sweden North Korea 5-?
China Yugoslavia 5–0

Third-place playoff

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North Korea Yugoslavia 5-?

Final

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Jiang Jialiang bt Carlsson 21–12 19–21 21–12
Teng Yi btLindh 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.