1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team
1955 Swaythling Cup (men's team) | |
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← 1954 1956 → |
The 1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 22nd edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]
Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–3 in the final. England and Hungary won bronze medals after being defeated in the semi-finals.[3] [4] [5] [6]
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Japan Ichiro Ogimura Kichii Tamasu Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita | Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Bohumil Váňa Ludvik Vyhnanovsky | Hungary László Földy József Kóczián Ferenc Sidó Josef Somogyi Kálmán Szepesi | |
England Richard Bergmann Brian Kennedy Johnny Leach Bryan Merrett Alan Rhodes |
Swaythling Cup tables
Group 1
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | France | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
3 | Brazil | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
4 | Netherlands | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Egypt | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | Italy | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
7 | Guernsey | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
8 | Jersey | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Group 2
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hungary | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | United States | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
3 | Sweden | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
4 | Bulgaria | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Portugal | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | Ireland | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
7 | Denmark | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
8 | Finland | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Group 3
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Japan | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | Yugoslavia | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
3 | Vietnam | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
4 | Austria | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Australia | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | Belgium | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
7 | Scotland | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
8 | Norway | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Group 4
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | England | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | Romania | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
3 | Germany | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
4 | Switzerland | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Spain | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | Wales | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
7 | Saarland | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
8 | Lebanon | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Semifinals
Team One | Team two | Score |
---|---|---|
Czechoslovakia | England | 5-1 |
Japan | Hungary | 5-4 |
Final
Japan 5 | Czechoslovakia 3 | Score | |
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Ogimura | lost to | Andreadis | 19-21 19-21 |
Ogimura | bt | Štípek | 22-20 21-19 |
Ogimura | bt | Váňa | 21-18 21-18 |
Tanaka | lost to | Andreadis | 15-21 20-22 |
Tanaka | bt | Štípek | 21-12 21-17 |
Tanaka | bt | Váňa | 21-9 21-18 |
Tamasu | lost to | Andreadis | 12-21 19-21 |
Tamasu | bt | Štípek | 21-17 22-20 |
Tamasu | v | Váňa | not played |
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 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "1955 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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