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1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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1963 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 27th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–1 in the final. West Germany and Sweden both won a bronze medal after being eliminated at the semi-final stage.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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Team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Li Furong
Wang Jiasheng
Xu Yinsheng
Zhang Xielin
Zhuang Zedong
 Japan
Koji Kimura
Ken Konaka
Keiichi Miki
Ichiro Ogimura
 West Germany
Erich Arndt
Ernst Gomolla
Dieter Michalek
Eberhard Schöler
Elmar Stegmann
 Sweden
Hans Alsér
Stellan Bengtsson
Carl-Johan Bernhardt
Kjell Johansson

Swaythling Cup tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 6 6 0 12
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 6 5 1 10
3 Iran Iran 6 4 2 8
4 Soviet Union Soviet Union 6 3 3 6
5 Denmark Denmark 6 2 4 4
6 Israel Israel 6 1 5 2
7 Greece Greece 6 0 6 0

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 West Germany West Germany 7 7 0 14
2 South Korea Korea 7 6 1 12
3 Hungary Hungary 7 5 2 10
4 Romania Romania 7 4 3 8
5 France France 7 2 5 4
5 Brazil Brazil 7 2 5 4
5 Australia Australia 7 2 5 4
8 Indonesia Indonesia 7 0 7 0

Group C

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Sweden Sweden 7 7 0 14
2 Soviet Union Soviet Union 7 6 1 12
3 East Germany East Germany 7 5 2 10
4 Portugal Portugal 7 4 3 8
5 Austria Austria 7 3 4 6
6 Egypt UAR 7 2 5 4
7 Switzerland Switzerland 7 1 6 2
8 Wales Wales 7 0 7 0

Group D

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 6 6 0 12
2 United States United States 6 5 1 10
3 England England 6 4 2 8
4 India India 6 3 3 6
5 Poland Poland 6 2 4 4
6 Netherlands Netherlands 6 1 5 2
7 North Vietnam North Vietnam 6 0 6 0

Semifinals

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Team One Team Two Score
China West Germany 5–1
Japan Sweden 5–0

Final

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China China 5 Japan Japan 1 Score
Chuang Tse-tung lost to Kimura 20–22 21–13 13–21
Chuang Tse-tung bt Ogimura 21–19 21–19
Chang Shih-lin bt Kimura 21–5 21–11
Chang Shih-lin bt Miki 21–9 21–8
Hsu Yin-sheng bt Ogiumra 21–11 21–17
Hsu Yin-sheng bt Miki 21–12 23–21

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 2018-04-25.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  6. ^ "1963 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-04-25.