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

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

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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

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Group A

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

Group B

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

Final group

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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

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

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  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 2018-04-27.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. ^ "1973 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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