1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team

The 1973 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 32nd edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1973 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team)

Sweden won the gold medal by virtue of winning the final group. Despite losing one of the matches against the Soviet Union they topped the group with a superior match record. China took silver and Japan bronze.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Anders Johansson Kjell Johansson Bo Persson Ingemar Wikström	China Tiao Wen-yuan Li Ching-kuang Liang Ko-liang Hsi En-ting Hsu Shao-Fa	Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Yujiro Imano Mitsuru Kohno Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka

Swaythling Cup Tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Sweden	6	6	0	12
2	China	6	5	1	10
3	Hungary	6	4	2	8
4	South Korea	6	3	3	6
5	Indonesia	6	2	4	4
6	Austria	6	1	5	2
7	India	6	0	6	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	6	6	0	12
2	Soviet Union	6	5	1	10
3	Czechoslovakia	6	4	2	8
4	Yugoslavia	6	3	3	6
5	West Germany	6	2	4	4
6	England	6	1	5	2
7	France	6	0	6	0

Final Group

Team One	Team Two	Score
Japan	Sweden	3-5
China	Sweden	4-5
Soviet Union	Sweden	5-4
Soviet Union	Japan	2-5
Soviet Union	China	4-5
Japan	China	4-5

Final Group

Pos	Team	P	W	L	F	A	Pts
1	Sweden	3	2	1	14	12	4
2	China	3	2	1	14	13	4
3	Japan	3	1	2	12	12	2
4	Soviet Union	3	1	2	11	14	2

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. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
6. "1973 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.