1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1961 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 26th edition of the men's team championship.^[1][2]

1961 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1961 World Table Tennis Championships

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–3 in the decisive final group match. Hungary won the bronze medal after finishing third in the final group.^[3][4][5][6]

Medalists

Team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	China Li Fu-jung Jung Kuo-tuan Wang Chuanyao Hsu Yin-sheng Chuang Tse-tung	Japan Nobuya Hoshino Koji Kimura Teruo Murakami Ichiro Ogimura Goro Shibutani	Hungary Zoltán Berczik László Földy Miklós Péterfy Péter Rózsás Ferenc Sidó

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	8	8	0	16
2	East Germany	8	7	1	14
3	West Germany	8	6	2	12
4	Czechoslovakia	8	5	3	10
5	Burma	8	4	4	8
6	Ecuador	8	3	5	6
7	Ghana	8	2	6	4
8	Nepal	8	1	7	2
9	Mongolia	8	0	8	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Hungary	7	7	0	14
2	Sweden	7	6	1	12
3	Romania	7	5	2	10
4	Poland	7	4	3	8
5	Denmark	7	3	4	6
6	Australia	7	1	6	2
6	North Vietnam	7	1	6	2
6	Nigeria	7	1	6	2

Group C

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	8	9	0	18
2	Yugoslavia	8	6	2	12
2	England	8	6	2	12
4	Russia	8	6	3	12
5	North Korea	8	5	4	10
6	Brazil	8	5	4	10
7	Singapore	8	3	6	6
8	New Zealand	8	1	8	2
9	Cuba	8	1	8	2

Final group results

Team One	Team Two	Score
Japan	Hungary	5–2
China	Hungary	7–2
China	Japan	5–3

Final standings

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	2	2	0	4
2	Japan	2	1	1	2
3	Hungary	3	0	2	0

Decisive final group match

China 5		Japan 3	Score
Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Hoshino	21–14 24–22
Chuang Tse-tung	bt	Ogimura	21–13 21–13
Hsu Yin-sheng	lost to	Kimura	21–17 17–21 17–21
Hsu Yin-sheng	bt	Ogimura	21–7 210-8
Hsu Yin-sheng	bt	Hoshino	21–23 21–18 21–17
Jung Kuo-tuan	lost to	Ogimura	19–21 19–21
Jung Kuo-tuan	lost to	Kimura	11–21 21–15 17–21
Jung Kuo-tuan	bt	Hoshino	21–15 20–22 21–18

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists