1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team

The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 22nd edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1955 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team)

Main article: 1955 World Table Tennis Championships

Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5-3 in the final. England and Hungary won bronze medals after being defeated in the semi finals.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Ichiro Ogimura Kichii Tamasu Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita	Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Bohumil Váňa Ludvik Vyhnanovsky	Hungary László Földy József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó Josef Somogyi Kálmán Szepesi
			England Richard Bergmann Brian Kennedy Johnny Leach Bryan Merrett Alan Rhodes

Swaythling Cup Tables

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	14
2	France	7	6	1	12
3	Brazil	7	4	3	8
4	Netherlands	7	4	3	8
5	Egypt	7	3	4	6
6	Italy	7	3	4	6
7	Guernsey	7	1	6	0
8	Jersey	7	0	7	0

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Hungary	7	7	0	14
2	United States	7	6	1	12
3	Sweden	7	5	2	10
4	Bulgaria	7	4	3	8
5	Portugal	7	3	4	6
6	Ireland	7	2	5	4
7	Denmark	7	1	6	2
8	Finland	7	0	6	0

Group 3

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	7	0	14
2	Yugoslavia	7	6	1	12
3	Vietnam	7	5	2	10
4	Austria	7	4	3	8
5	Australia	7	3	4	6
6	Belgium	7	2	5	4
7	Scotland	7	1	6	2
8	Norway	7	0	6	0

Group 4

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	England	7	7	0	14
2	Romania	7	6	1	12
3	Germany	7	5	2	10
4	Switzerland	7	4	3	8
5	Spain	7	3	4	6
6	Wales	7	2	5	4
7	Saarland	7	1	6	2
8	Lebanon	7	0	6	0

Semi Finals

Team One	Team two	Score
Czechoslovakia	England	5-1
Japan	Hungary	5-4

Final

Japan 5		Czechoslovakia 3	Score
Ogimura	lost to	Andreadis	19-21 19-21
Ogimura	bt	Štípek	22-20 21-19
Ogimura	bt	Váňa	21-18 21-18
Tanaka	lost to	Andreadis	15-21 20-22
Tanaka	bt	Štípek	21-12 21-17
Tanaka	bt	Váňa	21-9 21-18
Tamasu	lost to	Andreadis	12-21 19-21
Tamasu	bt	Štípek	21-17 22-20
Tamasu	v	Váňa	not played

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
2. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
3. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
6. "1955 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.