1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team
1979 Swaythling Cup (men's team) | |
---|---|
← 1977 1981 → |
The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 35th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]
Hungary won the gold medal defeating China 5–1 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Hungary Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz János Takács | China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Lu Qiwei | Japan Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima |
Swaythling Cup tables
Group A
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hungary | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
2 | China | 8 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
3 | France | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
4 | South Korea | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
5 | Yugoslavia | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
6 | West Germany | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
7 | Poland | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
8 | United States | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
9 | Romania | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Group B
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2 | Japan | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Soviet Union | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
4 | Sweden | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
5 | England | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
6 | Australia | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
7 | Denmark | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
8 | Hong Kong | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Semifinals
Team One | Team Two | Score |
---|---|---|
Japan | Hungary | 1–5 |
China | Czechoslovakia | 5–2 |
Third-place play off
Team One | Team Two | Score |
---|---|---|
Japan | Czechoslovakia | 5–3 |
Final
Hungary 5 | China 1 | Score | |
---|---|---|---|
Gergely | bt | Guo Yuehua | 21–10 21–18 |
Jónyer | bt | Lu Qiwei | 21–12 21–19 |
Klampár | bt | Li Zhenshi | 21–17 21–11 |
Jónyer | lost to | Guo Yuehua | 21–17 19–21 19–21 |
Gergely | bt | Li Zhenshi | 13–21 21–9 21–17 |
Klampár | bt | Lu Qiwei | 17–21 21–10 21–11 |
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 2018-04-27.
- ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "1979 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- v
- t
- e
- London 1926
- Stockholm 1928
- Budapest 1929
- Berlin 1930
- Budapest 1931
- Prague 1932
- Baden 1933
- Paris 1934
- Wembley 1935
- Prague 1936
- Baden 1937
- Wembley 1938
- Cairo 1939
- Paris 1947
- Wembley 1948
- Stockholm 1949
- Budapest 1950
- Vienna 1951
- Bombay 1952
- Bucharest 1953
- Wembley 1954
- Utrecht 1955
- Tokyo 1956
- Stockholm 1957
- Dortmund 1959
- Beijing 1961
- Prague 1963
- Ljubljana 1965
- Stockholm 1967
- Munich 1969
- Nagoya 1971
- Sarajevo 1973
- Calcutta 1975
- Birmingham 1977
- Pyongyang 1979
- Novi Sad 1981
- Tokyo 1983
- Gothenburg 1985
- New Delhi 1987
- Dortmund 1989
- Chiba 1991
- Gothenburg 1993
- Tianjin 1995
- Manchester 1997
- Osaka 2001