1991 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1991 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1991 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 41st edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

Sweden won the gold medal defeating Yugoslavia 3–2 in the final. Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal defeating the Belgium 3–1 in the bronze medal play off.[3] [4] [5]

The Swaythling Cup used the a new format during 1991. The new format had been voted in by 56 votes to 32 in 1989 and included a knockout phase for the final 16 teams.[6]

Medalists


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

Zoran Kalinić
Ilija Lupulesku
Zoran Primorac
Robert Smrekar

Milan Grman
Tomáš Janči
Petr Javurek
Petr Korbel
Roland Vimi

Final stage knockout phase

Last 16

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Unified Korean Team United States 3–0
Czechoslovakia England 3–1
Belgium Soviet Union 3–1
China Japan 3–0
Sweden France 3–1
Yugoslavia Austria 3–0
Germany Italy 3–1
Canada Poland 3–2

Quarter finals

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Sweden Unified Korean Team 3–1
Czechoslovakia China 3–2
Yugoslavia Germany 3–2
Belgium Canada 3–2

Semifinals

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Sweden Czechoslovakia 3–0
Yugoslavia Belgium 3–0

Third-place playoff

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Czechoslovakia Belgium 3–1

Final

width=150 Sweden 3width=100width=150 Yugoslavia 2width=250Score
Appelgren bt Kalinić 21–13 18–21 21–10
Waldner lost toPrimorac 14–21 11–21
Appelgren & Persson lost to Lupulesku & Primorac 16–21 19–21
Waldnerbt Kalinić 21–9 21–8
Persson bt Lupulesku 21–18 23–21

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: 1991 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-29. 2020-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20200920171754/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1990-91/tt_issue398.pdf. dead.
  6. Web site: New format for Swaythling Cup. 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.