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1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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1948 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
LocationWembley, London
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The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 15th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

Czechoslovakia won the gold medal defeating France 5–2 in the final.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

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Team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Swaythling Cup  Czechoslovakia
Ivan Andreadis
Max Marinko
Ladislav Štípek
František Tokár
Bohumil Váňa
 France
Guy Amouretti
Maurice Bordrez
Charles Dubouillé
Michel Haguenauer
Eugène Manchiska
 Austria
Heinrich Bednar
Rudolf Diwald
Otto Eckl
Heribert Just
Herbert Wunsch
 United States
Richard Miles
Garrett Nash
William Price
Marty Reisman

Swaythling Cup tables

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Pool A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 United States United States 4 4 0 4
2 England England 4 3 1 3
3 Hungary Hungary 4 2 2 2
4 Sweden Sweden 4 1 3 1
5 Jersey Jersey 4 0 4 0
6 India India + 0 0 0 0

+withdrew

Pool B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 5 0 5
2 Egypt Egypt 5 4 1 4
3 Wales Wales 5 3 2 3
4 Scotland Scotland 5 2 3 2
5 Greece Greece 5 1 4 1
6 Norway Norway 5 0 5 0

Pool C

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Austria Austria 5 5 0 5
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 5 4 1 4
3 Belgium Belgium 5 3 2 3
4 Netherlands Netherlands 5 2 3 2
5 Luxembourg Luxembourg 5 1 4 1
6 Italy Italy 5 0 5 0
7 Jewish Palestine + 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Pool D

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 France France 3 3 0 3
2 Republic of Ireland Ireland 3 2 1 2
3 Denmark Denmark 3 1 2 1
4 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 3 0
5 Portugal Portugal + 0 0 0 0
6 Argentina Argentina + 0 0 0 0

+ withdrew

Semifinals

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Team One Team Two Score
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia United States United States 5-2
France France Austria Austria 5-1

Final

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Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 France France 2 Score
Andreadis bt Amouretti 17-21 21-9 21-13
Andreadis bt Haguenauer 21-18 21-15
Štípek lost to Bordrez 18-21 16-21
Štípek lost to Haguenauer 19-21 17-21
Váňa bt Amouretti 21-6 21-16
Váňa bt Bordrez 21-9 21-5
Váňa bt Haguenauer 21-13 21-12

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 2018-04-13.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-13.