1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team

The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 31st edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

1971 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team)

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–2 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Li Fu-jung
Li Ching-kuang
Liang Ko-liang
Hsi En-ting
Chuang Tse-tung
 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Tokio Tasaka
 Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Milivoj Karakašević
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek

Swaythling Cup Tables

Second Stage Round

Group 1

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan55010
2 Yugoslavia5418
3 West Germany5326
4 South Korea5234
5 England5142
6 Indonesia5050

Group 2

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China55010
2 Sweden5418
3 Hungary5326
4 France5234
5 North Korea5142
6 Czechoslovakia5050

Third Place play off

Team One Team Two Score
YugoslaviaSweden5-3

Final

China 5 Japan 2 Score
Liang Ko-lianglost toHasegawa21-15 8-21 19-21
Liang Ko-liangbtItoh21-11 21-15
Chuang Tse-tungbtItoh21-19 17-21 21-15
Chuang Tse-tunglost toKono12-21 16-21
Li Ching-kuangbtKono21-13 21-18
Li Ching-kuangbtHasegawa15-21 21-19 21-18
Li Ching-kuangbtItoh21-3 21-6

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. "1971 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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