1989 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1989 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1989 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 40th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Sweden won the gold medal defeating China 5–0 in the final. The final was interrupted during the fourth game when Jiang Jialiang refused to play on against Jan-Ove Waldner after being called for a service foul. After a delay the match continued but Jiang was booed for the remainder of the match. North Korea won the bronze medal defeating the Soviet Union 5–3 in the bronze medal play off.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

Mikael Appelgren Peter Karlsson Erik Lindh Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner

Chen Longcan Jiang Jialiang Ma Wenge Teng Yi Yu Shentong

Chu Jong-Chol Kim Song-hui Li Gun-Sang Yun Mun-Song

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	1	2	1
3	Belgium	3	1	2	1
4	Hungary	3	1	2	1

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	South Korea	3	2	1	2
3	Nigeria	3	1	2	1
4	Taiwan	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	North Korea	3	3	0	3
2	Poland	3	2	1	2
3	England	3	1	2	1
4	Netherlands	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	Soviet Union	3	2	1	2
2	Japan	3	2	1	2
3	Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	2
4	Yugoslavia	3	0	3	0

Quarter finals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Sweden	West Germany	5–2
China	Poland	5–0
Soviet Union	South Korea	5–3
North Korea	Japan	5–1

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Sweden	North Korea	5–0
China	Soviet Union	5–1

Third-place playoff

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North Korea	Soviet Union	5–3

Final

width=150	Sweden 5	width=100		width=150	China 0	width=250	Score
Appelgren	bt	Jiang Jialiang	21–10 18–21 21–15
Waldner	bt	Teng Yi	22–24 21–19 21–17
Persson	bt	Chen Longcan	22–24 21–16 21–13
Waldner	bt	Jiang Jialiang	21–16 17–21 21–16
Appelgren	bt	Chen Longcan	21–17 21–16

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. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-04-29. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
4. Web site: Swaythling Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-04-29. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
5. Web site: 1989 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-29. 2020-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925134755/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1988-89/tt_issue382.pdf. dead.