1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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1952 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 19th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

Hungary won the gold medal defeating England 5–4 in the final. Japan and Hong Kong won a bronze medal after finishing second in their respective groups.[3][4][5]

Medalists[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 Hungary
Elemer Gyetvai
József Kóczián
Ferenc Sidó
Kálmán Szepesi
László Várkonyi
 England
Richard Bergmann
Adrian Haydon
Johnny Leach
Aubrey Simons
Harry Venner
 Japan
Daisuke Daimon
Norikazu Fujii
Tadaaki Hayashi
Hiroji Satoh
 Hong Kong
Cheng Kwok Wing
Chung Chin Sing
Fu Chi Fong
Keung Wing Ning
Suh Sui Cho

Swaythling Cup tables[edit]

Group A[edit]

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 England England 7 7 0 14
2 Japan Japan 7 6 1 12
3 France France 7 5 2 10
4 India India 7 4 3 8
5 Germany Germany 7 3 4 6
6 Portugal Portugal 7 2 5 4
7 Cambodia Cambodia 7 1 6 2
8 Pakistan Pakistan 7 0 7 0

Group B[edit]

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Hungary Hungary 6 6 0 12
2 Hong Kong Hong Kong 6 5 1 10
3 Vietnam Vietnam 6 4 2 8
4 Brazil Brazil 6 3 3 6
5 Singapore Singapore 6 2 4 4
6 Chile Chile 6 1 5 2
7 Afghanistan Afghanistan 6 0 6 0
8 Myanmar Burma + 0 0 0 0
8 South Korea Korea + 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Final[edit]

Hungary Hungary 5 England England 4 Score Match score
Szepesi lost to Leach 21–8 14–21 15–21 0–1
Kóczián bt Simons+ 21–7 21–16 1–1
Sidó lost to Bergmann 16–21 17–21 1–2
Kóczián bt Leach 21–18 21–15 2–2
Szepesi lost to Bergmann 13–21 6–21 2–3
Sidó bt Simons+ w/o tie conceded 3–3
Kóczián lost to Bergmann 12–21 19–21 3–4
Sidó bt Leach 21–19 21–17 4–4
Szepesi bt Simons+ 23–21 9–21 21–16 5–4

+ Simons picked up an injury during the game against Kóczián and had to concede the match against Sidó. With the match at 4–4, he had no choice but to play his third match with the injury.[6]

See also[edit]

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References[edit]

  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 2018-04-19.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  6. ^ "1952 Swaythling Cup Final report" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-04-20.