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1981 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 36th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

China won the gold medal defeating Hungary 5–2 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Cai Zhenhua
Guo Yuehua
Shi Zhihao
Wang Huiyuan
Xie Saike 		 Hungary
Gábor Gergely
István Jónyer
Tibor Klampár
Tibor Kreisz
Zsolt Kriston 		 Japan
Hiroyuki Abe
Hideo Gotoh
Masahiro Maehara
Seiji Ono
Norio Takashima

Swaythling Cup tables

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Group A

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 China China 7 7 0 7
2 Japan Japan 7 5 2 5
3 England England 7 4 3 4
4 South Korea South Korea 7 4 3 4
5 France France 7 4 3 4
6 Sweden Sweden 7 3 4 3
7 West Germany West Germany 7 1 6 1
8 Indonesia Indonesia 7 0 7 0

Group B

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Pos Team P W L Pts
1 Hungary Hungary 7 7 0 7
2 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 7 5 2 5
3 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 7 5 2 5
4 Poland Poland 7 5 2 5
5 North Korea North Korea 7 3 4 3
6 Italy Italy 7 2 5 2
7 Soviet Union Soviet Union 7 1 6 1
8 Australia Australia 7 0 7 0

Semifinals

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Team One Team Two Score
Japan Hungary 1–5
China Czechoslovakia 5–0

Third-place playoff

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Team One Team Two Score
Japan Czechoslovakia 5–1

Final

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China China 5 Hungary Hungary 2 Score
Shi Zhihao lost to Jónyer 17–21 21–23
Xie Saike bt Jónyer 21–15 21–19
Cai Zhenhua bt Klampár 21–17 22–24 22–20
Shi Zhihao lost to Klampár 21–13 17–21 19–21
Xie Saike bt Klampár 15–21 21–16 21–15
Xie Saike bt Gergely 21–17 22–24 22–20
Cai Zhenhua bt Gergely 21–16 14–21 21–15

See also

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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 2018-04-28.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  6. ^ "1981 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
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