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1955 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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1955 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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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

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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

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Group 1

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 7 7 0 14
2 France France 7 6 1 12
3 Brazil Brazil 7 4 3 8
4 Netherlands Netherlands 7 4 3 8
5 Egypt Egypt 7 3 4 6
6 Italy Italy 7 3 4 6
7 Guernsey Guernsey 7 1 6 0
8 Jersey Jersey 7 0 7 0

Group 2

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Hungary Hungary 7 7 0 14
2 United States United States 7 6 1 12
3 Sweden Sweden 7 5 2 10
4 Bulgaria Bulgaria 7 4 3 8
5 Portugal Portugal 7 3 4 6
6 Republic of Ireland Ireland 7 2 5 4
7 Denmark Denmark 7 1 6 2
8 Finland Finland 7 0 6 0

Group 3

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 7 7 0 14
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 7 6 1 12
3 Vietnam Vietnam 7 5 2 10
4 Austria Austria 7 4 3 8
5 Australia Australia 7 3 4 6
6 Belgium Belgium 7 2 5 4
7 Scotland Scotland 7 1 6 2
8 Norway Norway 7 0 6 0

Group 4

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 England England 7 7 0 14
2 Romania Romania 7 6 1 12
3 Germany Germany 7 5 2 10
4 Switzerland Switzerland 7 4 3 8
5 Spain Spain 7 3 4 6
6 Wales Wales 7 2 5 4
7 Saarland Saarland 7 1 6 2
8 Lebanon Lebanon 7 0 6 0

Semifinals

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Team One Team two Score
Czechoslovakia England 5-1
Japan Hungary 5-4

Final

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Japan Japan 5 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3 Score
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

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  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 2018-04-22.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  6. ^ "1955 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.