1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1983 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 37th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–1 in the final. Hungary won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Cai Zhenhua
Fan Changmao
Guo Yuehua
Jiang Jialiang
Xie Saike
 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Stellan Bengtsson
Ulf Bengtsson
Erik Lindh
Jan-Ove Waldner
 Hungary
Gábor Gergely
István Jónyer
Zoltán Káposztás
Zsolt Kriston
János Molnár

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 7 7 0 7
2 Sweden Sweden 7 6 1 6
3 France France 7 4 3 4
4 South Korea South Korea 7 4 3 4
5 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 7 3 4 3
6 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 7 2 5 2
7 West Germany West Germany 7 2 5 2
8 United States United States 7 0 7 0

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 England England 7 6 1 6
2 Hungary Hungary 7 6 1 6
3 Japan Japan 7 6 1 6
4 North Korea North Korea 7 4 3 4
5 Poland Poland 7 3 4 3
6 Italy Italy 7 2 5 2
7 Soviet Union Soviet Union 7 1 6 1
8 Denmark Denmark 7 0 7 0

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden England 5–0
China Hungary 5–0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
Hungary England 5–2

Final

China China 5 Sweden Sweden 1 Score
Jiang Jialiang bt Waldner 18–21 21–17 21–14
Jiang Jialiang bt Appelgren 21–10 21–13
Cai Zhenhua bt Lindh 21–14 21–14
Cai Zhenhua bt Waldner 30–28 21–16
Xie Saike lost to Appelgren 18–21 21–19 14–21
Xie Saike bt Lindh 17–21 21–13 21–9

See also

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 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  6. ^ "1983 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-28.