1969 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team

The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 30th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

1969 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team)

Japan won the gold medal defeating West Germany 5-3 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off. The Chinese team were again absent.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Kenji Kasai
Mitsuru Kono
 West Germany
Bernt Jansen
Wilfried Lieck
Martin Ness
Eberhard Schöler
 Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek
Edvard Vecko

Second Stage Round

Group 1

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan55010
2 Yugoslavia5418
3 England5326
4 Soviet Union5234
5 Hungary5142
6 Denmark5050

Group 2

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 West Germany55010
2 South Korea5336
3 Sweden5326
4 Czechoslovakia5326
5 France5142
6 Ireland5050

Third Place play off

Team One Team Two Score
YugoslaviaSouth Korea5-0

Final

Japan 5 West Germany 3 Score
KonobtJansen15-21 21-16 12-21
HasegawabtLieck22-20 21-13
Itohlost toSchöler17-21 21-8 12-21
KonobtSchöler23-21 14-21 21-17
Hasegawalost toJansen18-21 17-21
ItohbtLieck21-16 21-17
Hasegawalost toSchöler21-15 13-21 17-21
KonobtLieck21-13 21-16

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

  1. "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 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 2018-04-26.
  5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
  6. "1969 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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