1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team
1952 Swaythling Cup (men's team) | |
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← 1951 1953 → |
The 1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 19th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]
Hungary won the gold medal defeating England 5–4 in the final. Japan and Hong Kong won a bronze medal after finishing second in their respective groups.[3][4][5]
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Hungary Elemer Gyetvai József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó Kálmán Szepesi László Várkonyi | England Richard Bergmann Adrian Haydon Johnny Leach Aubrey Simons Harry Venner | Japan Daisuke Daimon Norikazu Fujii Tadaaki Hayashi Hiroji Satoh | |
Hong Kong Cheng Kwok Wing Chung Chin Sing Fu Chi Fong Keung Wing Ning Suh Sui Cho |
Swaythling Cup tables
Group A
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | England | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | Japan | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
3 | France | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
4 | India | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Germany | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | Portugal | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
7 | Cambodia | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
8 | Pakistan | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Group B
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hungary | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
2 | Hong Kong | 6 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
3 | Vietnam | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
4 | Brazil | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
5 | Singapore | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
6 | Chile | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
7 | Afghanistan | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
8 | Burma + | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
8 | Korea + | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+ withdrew
Final
Hungary 5 | England 4 | Score | Match score | |
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Szepesi | lost to | Leach | 21–8 14–21 15–21 | 0–1 |
Kóczián | bt | Simons+ | 21–7 21–16 | 1–1 |
Sidó | lost to | Bergmann | 16–21 17–21 | 1–2 |
Kóczián | bt | Leach | 21–18 21–15 | 2–2 |
Szepesi | lost to | Bergmann | 13–21 6–21 | 2–3 |
Sidó | bt | Simons+ | w/o tie conceded | 3–3 |
Kóczián | lost to | Bergmann | 12–21 19–21 | 3–4 |
Sidó | bt | Leach | 21–19 21–17 | 4–4 |
Szepesi | bt | Simons+ | 23–21 9–21 21–16 | 5–4 |
+ Simons picked up an injury during the game against Kóczián and had to concede the match against Sidó. With the match at 4–4, he had no choice but to play his third match with the injury.[6]
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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 2018-04-19.
- ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- ^ "1952 Swaythling Cup Final report" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
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