1991 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1991 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1991 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1991 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 41st edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

Sweden won the gold medal defeating Yugoslavia 3–2 in the final. Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal defeating the Belgium 3–1 in the bronze medal play off.[3] [4] [5]

The Swaythling Cup used the a new format during 1991. The new format had been voted in by 56 votes to 32 in 1989 and included a knockout phase for the final 16 teams.[6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Peter Karlsson
Erik Lindh
Jörgen Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner 		 Yugoslavia
Zoran Kalinić
Ilija Lupulesku
Zoran Primorac
Robert Smrekar 		 Czechoslovakia
Milan Grman
Tomáš Janči
Petr Javurek
Petr Korbel
Roland Vimi

Final stage knockout phase

Last 16

Team One Team Two Score
Unified Korean Team United States 3–0
Czechoslovakia England 3–1
Belgium Soviet Union 3–1
China Japan 3–0
Sweden France 3–1
Yugoslavia Austria 3–0
Germany Italy 3–1
Canada Poland 3–2

Quarter finals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Unified Korean Team 3–1
Czechoslovakia China 3–2
Yugoslavia Germany 3–2
Belgium Canada 3–2

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Czechoslovakia 3–0
Yugoslavia Belgium 3–0

Third-place playoff

Team One Team Two Score
Czechoslovakia Belgium 3–1

Final

Sweden Sweden 3 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 2 Score
Appelgren bt Kalinić 21–13 18–21 21–10
Waldner lost to Primorac 14–21 11–21
Appelgren & Persson lost to Lupulesku & Primorac 16–21 19–21
Waldner bt Kalinić 21–9 21–8
Persson bt Lupulesku 21–18 23–21

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, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  5. ^ "1991 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  6. ^ "New format for Swaythling Cup" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-29.