2000 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

2000 men's team (Swaythling Cup)
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The 2000 World Table Tennis Championships – men's team (Swaythling Cup) was the 45th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

Sweden won the gold medal defeating China 3–2 in the final. Japan and Italy won bronze medals.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Sweden
Fredrik Håkansson
Peter Karlsson
Jörgen Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner
 China
Kong Linghui
Liu Guoliang
Liu Guozheng
Ma Lin
Wang Liqin
 Italy
Umberto Giardina
Massimiliano Mondello
Valentino Piacentini
Yang Min
 Japan
Seiko Iseki
Kōji Matsushita
Hiroshi Shibutani
Toshio Tasaki
Ryo Yuzawa

Final stage knockout phase

Quarter finals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Germany 3–0
China South Korea 3–0
Italy Netherlands 3–1
Japan Chinese Taipei 3–2

Semifinals

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden Italy 3–1
China Japan 3–0

Final

Sweden Sweden 3 China China 2 Score
Waldner bt Liu Guoliang 19–21 21–7 23–21
Persson bt Kong Linghui 21–17 21–19
Karlsson lost to Liu Guozheng 6–21 16–21
Waldner lost to Kong Linghui 9–21 17–21
Persson bt Liu Guoliang 18–21 21–17 21–18

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. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2004-02-25. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  4. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  5. ^ "2000 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-30.