1928 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1928 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1928 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1928 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the second edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

Hungary defeated Austria and England 5–2 in a three way final playoff for the gold medal. The three teams had tied in the main pool, finishing with a 7-1 match record.[3][4][5]

Final table

Pos Team P W L Squad
1 Austria Austria 8 7 1 Paul Flussmann, Alfred Liebster, Munio Pillinger, Robert Thum
2 Hungary Hungary 8 7 1 Laszlo Bellak, Sándor Glancz, Roland Jacobi, Zoltán Mechlovits, Daniel Pecsi
3 England England 8 7 1 Charles Allwright, Charles Bull, Adrian Haydon, Charles Mase, Fred Perry,
4 Latvia Latvia 8 5 3 Mordecai Finberg, Arnold Oschin, Rosenthal I, Rosenthal II
5 Sweden Sweden 8 4 4 Valter Kolmodin, Hille Nilsson, Ragnar Söderholz
6 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 8 3 5 Erwin Fleischmann, Kurt Heller, Antonín Maleček, Bedřich Nikodém
7 Germany Germany 8 2 6 D Baumgarten, Herbert Caro, Heribert Haensch, Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt, Paul Mendel
8 Wales Wales 8 1 7 Trevor Coles, Herbert Geen, Cyril Mossford, Hedley Penny, Solly Stone
9 India India 8 0 8 H.N Bhorucha, S.A Ismael, S.R.G. Suppiah,

Final Playoffs

The final consisted of a three-way playoff between Hungary, Austria and England who all finished with a 7–2 record in the main table.

Austria Austria 5 England England 2 Scores
Thum Bull 21-08 24-22
Thum Haydon 21-14 09-21 18-21
Thum Perry 17-21 21-16 21-13
Flussmann Bull 18-21 21-17 21-14
Flussmann Haydon 23-25 21-18 17-21
Liebster Bull 21-19 07-21 21-19
Liebster Haydon 21-14 18-21 21-12
Austria Austria 2 Hungary Hungary 5 Scores
Thum Mechlovits 19-21 18-21
Thum Glancz 10-21 17-21
Thum Bellak 21-11 21-15
Liebster Mechlovits 18-21 15-21
Liebster Glancz 21-19 23-21
Pillinger Mechlovits 13-21 21-17 17-21
Pillinger Bellak 12-21 20-22
England England 2 Hungary Hungary 5 Scores
Bull Mechlovits 21-19 11-21 21-11
Bull Glancz 17-21 21-17 21-17
Bull Ballak 14-21 21-12 18-21
Allwright Mechlovits 21-18 13-21 11-21
Allwright Bellak 17-21 16-21
Haydon Glancz 09-21 13-21
Haydon Bellak 10-21 10-21

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 2018-04-02.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-02.