1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1985 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1985 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1985 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 38th edition of the men's team championship.

China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–0 in the final. Poland won the bronze medal.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Chen Longcan
Chen Xinhua
Jiang Jialiang
Wang Huiyuan
Xie Saike 		 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Ulf Bengtsson
Ulf Carlsson
Erik Lindh
Jan-Ove Waldner 		 Poland
Stefan Dryszel
Andrzej Grubba
Andrzej Jakubowicz
Leszek Kucharski
Norbert Mnich

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China 7 7 0 7
2 Poland 7 5 2 5
3 Czechoslovakia 7 4 3 4
4 North Korea 7 4 3 4
5 South Korea 7 3 4 3
6 Hong Kong 7 2 5 2
7 Hungary 7 2 5 2
8 United States 7 1 6 1

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Sweden 7 7 0 7
2 Japan 7 6 1 6
3 France 7 5 2 5
4 Yugoslavia 7 4 3 4
5 England 7 3 4 3
6 India 7 2 5 2
7 Italy 7 1 6 1
8 Denmark 7 0 7 0

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Poland 5–3
China Japan 5–0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
Poland Japan 5–3

Final

China 5 Sweden 0 Score
Chen Xinhua bt Lindh 21–16 21–16
Jiang Jialiang bt Appelgren 21–18 20–22 21–15
Chen Longcan bt Waldner 21–11 11–21 21–19
Jiang Jialiang bt Lindh 21–18 21–19
Chen Xinhua bt Waldner 21–17 14–21 21–14

See also

References

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