1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1973 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 32nd edition of the men's team championship.

Sweden won the gold medal by virtue of winning the final group. Despite losing one of the matches against the Soviet Union they topped the group with a superior match record. China took silver and Japan bronze.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Sweden
Stellan Bengtsson
Anders Johansson
Kjell Johansson
Bo Persson
Ingemar Wikström 		 China
Tiao Wen-yuan
Li Ching-kuang
Liang Ko-liang
Hsi En-ting
Hsu Shao-Fa 		 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Yujiro Imano
Mitsuru Kohno
Norio Takashima
Tokio Tasaka

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Sweden 6 6 0 12
2 China 6 5 1 10
3 Hungary 6 4 2 8
4 South Korea 6 3 3 6
5 Indonesia 6 2 4 4
6 Austria 6 1 5 2
7 India 6 0 6 0

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan 6 6 0 12
2 Soviet Union 6 5 1 10
3 Czechoslovakia 6 4 2 8
4 Yugoslavia 6 3 3 6
5 West Germany 6 2 4 4
6 England 6 1 5 2
7 France 6 0 6 0

Final group

Team One Team Two Score
Japan Sweden 3–5
China Sweden 4–5
Soviet Union Sweden 5–4
Soviet Union Japan 2–5
Soviet Union China 4–5
Japan China 4–5

Final group

Pos Team P W L F A Pts
1 Sweden 3 2 1 14 12 4
2 China 3 2 1 14 13 4
3 Japan 3 1 2 12 12 2
4 Soviet Union 3 1 2 11 14 2

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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