1993 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1993 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1993 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 42nd edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Sweden won the gold medal defeating China 3–1 in the final. Germany won the bronze medal defeating the North Korea 3–0 in the bronze medal play off.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Medalists

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

Liu Guoliang Lü Lin Ma Wenge Wang Hao Wang Tao Zhang Lei

Oliver Alke Steffen Fetzner Peter Franz Richard Prause Jörg Roßkopf

Final Stage knockout phase

Quarter finals

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Sweden	Belgium	3–0
China	Japan	3–0
Germany	South Korea	3–2
North Korea	France	3–2

Semifinals

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Sweden	North Korea	3–1
China	Germany	3–1

Third-place playoff

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Germany	North Korea	3–0

Final

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Karlsson	bt	Wang Hao	13–21 21–19 21–16
Waldner	lost to	Ma Wenge	21–14 14–21 20–22
Persson	bt	Wang Tao	26–24 16–21 21–16
Waldner	bt	Wang Hao	21–16 17–21 21–13

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: 1993 Swaythling Cup results. Table Tennis England. 2018-04-29. 2020-09-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925141118/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1993-94/tt_issue415.pdf. dead.