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

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
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

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Sweden	Unified Korean Team	3–1
Czechoslovakia	China	3–2
Yugoslavia	Germany	3–2
Belgium	Canada	3–2

Semifinals

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Sweden	Czechoslovakia	3–0
Yugoslavia	Belgium	3–0

Third-place playoff

width=150	Team One	width=150	Team Two	width=50	Score
Czechoslovakia	Belgium	3–1

Final

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