1952 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1952 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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

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

Group A

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

Group B

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

+ withdrew

Final

Hungary 5		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]

References

^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ "1952 Swaythling Cup Final report" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-27. Retrieved 2018-04-20.

[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.

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