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1969 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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

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

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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

Swaythling Cup tables

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Second stage round

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Group 1

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Japan Japan 5 5 0 10
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 5 4 1 8
3 England England 5 3 2 6
4 Soviet Union Soviet Union 5 2 3 4
5 Hungary Hungary 5 1 4 2
6 Denmark Denmark 5 0 5 0

Group 2

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 West Germany West Germany 5 5 0 10
2 South Korea South Korea 5 3 3 6
3 Sweden Sweden 5 3 2 6
4 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 3 2 6
5 France France 5 1 4 2
6 Republic of Ireland Ireland 5 0 5 0

Third-place playoff

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Team One Team Two Score
Yugoslavia South Korea 5–0

Final

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Japan Japan 5 West Germany West Germany 3 Score
Kono bt Jansen 15–21 21–16 12–21
Hasegawa bt Lieck 22–20 21–13
Itoh lost to Schöler 17–21 21–8 12–21
Kono bt Schöler 23–21 14–21 21–17
Hasegawa lost to Jansen 18–21 17–21
Itoh bt Lieck 21–16 21–17
Hasegawa lost to Schöler 21–15 13–21 17–21
Kono bt Lieck 21–13 21–16

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 2018-04-26.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  6. ^ "1969 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-26.