1989 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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1989 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1989 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 40th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

Sweden won the gold medal defeating China 5–0 in the final. The final was interrupted during the fourth game when Jiang Jialiang refused to play on against Jan-Ove Waldner after being called for a service foul. After a delay the match continued but Jiang was booed for the remainder of the match. North Korea won the bronze medal defeating the Soviet Union 5–3 in the bronze medal play off.[3][4][5]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Peter Karlsson
Erik Lindh
Jörgen Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner 		 China
Chen Longcan
Jiang Jialiang
Ma Wenge
Teng Yi
Yu Shentong 		 North Korea
Chu Jong-Chol
Kim Song-hui
Li Gun-Sang
Yun Mun-Song

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 3 3 0 3
2 West Germany West Germany 3 1 2 1
3 Belgium Belgium 3 1 2 1
4 Hungary Hungary 3 1 2 1

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Sweden Sweden 3 3 0 3
2 South Korea South Korea 3 2 1 2
3 Nigeria Nigeria 3 1 2 1
4 Taiwan Taiwan 3 0 3 0

Group C

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 North Korea North Korea 3 3 0 3
2 Poland Poland 3 2 1 2
3 England England 3 1 2 1
4 Netherlands Netherlands 3 0 3 0

Group D

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 2 1 2
2 Japan Japan 3 2 1 2
3 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3 2 1 2
4 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 3 0 3 0

Quarter finals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden West Germany 5–2
China Poland 5–0
Soviet Union South Korea 5–3
North Korea Japan 5–1

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden North Korea 5–0
China Soviet Union 5–1

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
North Korea Soviet Union 5–3

Final

Sweden Sweden 5 China China 0 Score
Appelgren bt Jiang Jialiang 21–10 18–21 21–15
Waldner bt Teng Yi 22–24 21–19 21–17
Persson bt Chen Longcan 22–24 21–16 21–13
Waldner bt Jiang Jialiang 21–16 17–21 21–16
Appelgren bt Chen Longcan 21–17 21–16

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. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  5. ^ "1989 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-29.