1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1956 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 23rd edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–1 in the final. China and Romania won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Japan
Ichiro Ogimura
Toshiaki Tanaka
Yoshio Tomita
Keisuke Tsunoda 		 Czechoslovakia
Ivan Andreadis
Ladislav Štípek
Václav Tereba
Ludvík Vyhnanovský 		 China
Hu Ping-chuan
Chiang Yung-Ning
Tsen Huai-Kuang
Wang Chuanyao
Yang Jai-Hua
 Romania
Matei Gantner
Tiberiu Harasztosi
Paul Pesch
Mircea Popescu
Toma Reiter

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 7 7 0 14
2 Romania Romania 7 6 1 12
3 Germany Germany 7 5 2 10
4 Hong Kong Hong Kong 7 4 3 8
5 Sweden Sweden 7 3 4 6
6 Philippines Philippines 7 1 6 2
7 Australia Australia 7 1 6 2
8 Singapore Singapore 7 1 6 2

Group B

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 7 7 0 14
2 China China 7 5 2 10
3 England England 7 5 2 10
4 South Vietnam South Vietnam 7 5 2 10
5 India India 7 3 4 6
6 United States United States 7 2 5 4
7 South Korea Korea 7 1 6 2
8 Portugal Portugal 7 0 6 0

Final

Japan Japan 5 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1 Score
Ogimura bt Andreadis 26–28 21–19 21–13
Ogimura bt Štípek 21–6 21–18
Tanaka bt Vyhnanovský 21–11 18–21 21–16
Tanaka bt Štípek 21–12 21–13
Tsunoda lost to Andreadis 22–24 21–16 16–21
Tsunoda bt Vyhnanovský 21–11 21–19

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. ^ 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 2018-04-22.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  6. ^ "1956 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.