1967 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1967 Swaythling Cup (men's team)

Main article: 1967 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 29th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

Japan won the gold medal defeating North Korea 5–3 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal after winning third place play off.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

The Chinese team were unable to defend their title because of the Cultural Revolution.^{[7] [8]}

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Japan Nobuhiko Hasegawa Hajime Kagimoto Satoru Kawahara Koji Kimura Mitsuru Kono	North Korea Jung Ryang-Woong Kang Neung-Hwa Kim Chang-Ho Kim Jung-Sam Pak Sin Il	Sweden Hans Alsér Carl-Johan Bernhardt Christer Johansson Kjell Johansson Bo Persson

Swaythling Cup tables

Semifinal round

Group 1

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	North Korea	3	3	0	6
2	Sweden	3	2	1	4
3	Czechoslovakia	3	1	2	2
4	England	3	0	3	0

Group 2

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	3	3	0	6
2	West Germany	3	2	1	4
3	Soviet Union	3	1	2	2
4	Yugoslavia	3	0	3	0

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
Sweden	West Germany	5–2

Final

Japan 5		North Korea 3	Score
Kono	lost to	Kim Chang-Ho	20–22 10–21
Hasegawa	bt	Jung Ryang-Woong	21–16 20–22 21–16
Kagimoto	bt	Pak Sin Il	21–19 21–15
Hasegawa	lost to	Kim Chang-Ho	21–18 18–21 14–21
Kono	bt	Pak Sin Il	21–17 21–7
Kagimoto	lost to	Jung Ryang-Woong	18–21 16–21
Hasegawa	bt	Pak Sin Il	21–16 21–16
Kagimoto	bt	Kim Chang-Ho	21–18 21–18

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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