1975 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1975 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 33rd edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

1975 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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Main article: 1975 World Table Tennis Championships

China won the gold medal defeating Yugoslavia 5–3 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Li Peng Li Chen-shih Liang Geliang Lu Yuan-sheng Hsu Shao-fa	Yugoslavia Milivoj Karakašević Zoran Kosanović Miran Savnić Antun Stipančić Dragutin Šurbek	Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Kjell Johansson Bo Persson Ulf Thorsell Ingemar Wikström

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	14
2	Sweden	7	6	1	12
3	Soviet Union	7	5	2	10
4	West Germany	7	4	3	8
5	South Korea	7	3	4	6
6	France	7	2	5	4
7	Denmark	7	1	6	2
8	Austria	7	0	7	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	14
2	Yugoslavia	7	6	1	12
3	Hungary	7	5	2	10
4	Japan	7	4	3	8
5	England	7	3	4	6
6	Romania	7	2	5	4
7	Indonesia	7	1	6	2
8	India	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	5–3
China	Sweden	5–2

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
Sweden	Czechoslovakia	5–4

Final

China 5		Yugoslavia 3	Score
Lu Yuan-sheng	lost to	Stipančić	26–28 17–21
Li Chen-shih	bt	Karakašević	21–16 21–19
Hsu Shao-fa	lost to	Šurbek	23–21 16–21 14–21
Li Chen-shih	bt	Stipančić	21–12 21–8
Lu Yuan-sheng	bt	Šurbek	21–10 22–20
Hsu Shao-fa	bt	Karakašević	21–14 21–17
Li Chen-shih	lost to	Šurbek	20–22 17–21
Hsu Shao-fa	bt	Stipančić	21–16 21–13

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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3. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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