1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1963 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
1963 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 27th edition of the men's team championship.^[1] ^[2]

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–1 in the final. West Germany and Sweden both won a bronze medal after being eliminated at the semi-final stage.^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Li Fu-jung Wang Chia-Sheng Hsu Yin-sheng Chang Shih-lin Chuang Tse-tung	Japan Koji Kimura Ken Konaka Keiichi Miki Ichiro Ogimura	West Germany Erich Arndt Ernst Gomolla Dieter Michalek Eberhard Schöler Elmar Stegmann
		Japan Koji Kimura Ken Konaka Keiichi Miki Ichiro Ogimura	Sweden Hans Alsér Stellan Bengtsson Carl-Johan Bernhardt Kjell Johansson

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	6	6	0	12
2	Yugoslavia	6	5	1	10
3	Iran	6	4	2	8
4	Soviet Union	6	3	3	6
5	Denmark	6	2	4	4
6	Israel	6	1	5	2
7	Greece	6	0	6	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	West Germany	7	7	0	14
2	Korea	7	6	1	12
3	Hungary	7	5	2	10
4	Romania	7	4	3	8
5	France	7	2	5	4
5	Brazil	7	2	5	4
5	Australia	7	2	5	4
8	Indonesia	7	0	7	0

Group C

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Sweden	7	7	0	14
2	Soviet Union	7	6	1	12
3	East Germany	7	5	2	10
4	Portugal	7	4	3	8
5	Austria	7	3	4	6
6	UAR	7	2	5	4
7	Switzerland	7	1	6	2
8	Wales	7	0	7	0

Group D

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	6	6	0	12
2	United States	6	5	1	10
3	England	6	4	2	8
4	India	6	3	3	6
5	Poland	6	2	4	4
6	Netherlands	6	1	5	2
7	North Vietnam	6	0	6	0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
China	West Germany	5–1
Japan	Sweden	5–0

Final

China 5		Japan 1	Score
Chuang Tse-tung	lost to	Kimura	20–22 21–13 13–21
Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Ogimura	21–19 21–19
Chang Shih-lin	bt	Kimura	21–5 21–11
Chang Shih-lin	bt	Miki	21–9 21–8
Hsu Yin-sheng	bt	Ogiumra	21–11 21–17
Hsu Yin-sheng	bt	Miki	21–12 23–21

References

^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
^ "1963 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

[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 2018-04-25.

[5] "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

[6] "1963 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

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