1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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

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 Japan Japan 5 5 0 10
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 5 4 1 8
3 West Germany West Germany 5 3 2 6
4 South Korea South Korea 5 2 3 4
5 England England 5 1 4 2
6 Indonesia Indonesia 5 0 5 0

Group 2

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 5 5 0 10
2 Sweden Sweden 5 4 1 8
3 Hungary Hungary 5 3 2 6
4 France France 5 2 3 4
5 North Korea North Korea 5 1 4 2
6 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 0 5 0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
Yugoslavia Sweden 5–3

Final

China China 5 Japan Japan 2 Score
Liang Ko-liang lost to Hasegawa 21–15 8–21 19–21
Liang Ko-liang bt Itoh 21–11 21–15
Chuang Tse-tung bt Itoh 21–19 17–21 21–15
Chuang Tse-tung lost to Kono 12–21 16–21
Li Ching-kuang bt Kono 21–13 21–18
Li Ching-kuang bt Hasegawa 15–21 21–19 21–18
Li Ching-kuang bt Itoh 21–3 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, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  4. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  6. ^ "1971 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-26.