1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

1997 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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See main article: 1997 World Table Tennis Championships.

The 1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 44th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating France 3–1 in the final. South Korea won the bronze medal defeating Germany in the bronze medal play off.^{[3] [4]}

Medalists

Ding Song Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Ma Wenge Wang Tao

Nicolas Chatelain Patrick Chila Damien Eloi Jean-Philippe Gatien Christophe Legout

Chu Kyo-sung Kim Taek-soo Lee Chul-seung Oh Sang-eun Yoo Nam-kyu

Final stage knockout phase

Quarter finals

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Germany	Greece	3–1
China	Sweden	3–1
France	Belgium	3–2
South Korea	Japan	3–2

Semifinals

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France	Germany	3-?
China	South Korea	3–1

Third-place playoff

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South Korea	Germany	3–0

Final

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Kong Linghui	bt	Gatien	18–21 21–16 21–17
Liu Guoliang	lost to	Chila	17–21 21–15 10–21
Wang Tao	bt	Eloi	21–10 31–29
Liu Guoliang	bt	Gatien	21–19 21–14

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.