1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 39th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

China won the gold medal defeating Sweden 5–0 in the final. Jan-Ove Waldner and Mikael Appelgren were both missing from the final due to stomach complaints. North Korea won the bronze medal.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Chen Longcan
Chen Xinhua
Jiang Jialiang
Teng Yi
Wang Hao
 Sweden
Mikael Appelgren
Ulf Carlsson
Erik Lindh
Jörgen Persson
Jan-Ove Waldner
 North Korea
Chu Jong-Chol
Hong Chol

Kim Song-hui
Li Gun-Sang

Swaythling Cup tables[]

Group A[]

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 3 3 0 3
2 West Germany West Germany 3 2 1 2
3 England England 3 1 2 1
4 France France 3 0 3 0

Group B[]

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Sweden Sweden 3 3 0 3
2 Taiwan Chinese Taipei 3 2 1 2
3 South Korea South Korea 3 1 2 1
4 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3 0 3 0

Group C[]

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 3 3 0 3
2 Poland Poland 3 2 1 2
3 Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 1 2 1
4 Austria Austria 3 0 3 0

Group D[]

Pos Team P W L Pts
1 North Korea North Korea 3 3 0 3
2 Japan Japan 3 2 1 2
3 Hungary Hungary 3 1 2 1
4 India India 3 0 3 0

Quarter finals[]

Team One Team Two Score
Poland North Korea 4–5
China Japan 5–0
Sweden West Germany 5–4
Chinese Taipei Yugoslavia 2–5

Semifinals[]

Team One Team Two Score
Sweden North Korea 5-?
China Yugoslavia 5–0

Third-place playoff[]

Team One Team Two Score
North Korea Yugoslavia 5-?

Final[]

China China 5 Sweden Sweden 0 Score
Jiang Jialiang bt Carlsson 21–12 19–21 21–12
Teng Yi bt Lindh 21–15 21–15
Chen Longcan bt Persson 21–19 21–14
Jiang Jialiang bt Lindh 19–21 21–7 21–13
Chen Longcan bt Carlsson 22–20 21–10

See also[]

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References[]

  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 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
  6. ^ "1987 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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