1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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1997 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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The 1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 44th edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

China won the gold medal defeating France 3–1 in the final. South Korea won the bronze medal defeating Germany in the bronze medal play off.[3][4]

Medalists[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
 China
Ding Song
Kong Linghui
Liu Guoliang
Ma Wenge
Wang Tao 		 France
Nicolas Chatelain
Patrick Chila
Damien Eloi
Jean-Philippe Gatien
Christophe Legout 		 South Korea
Chu Kyo-sung
Kim Taek-soo
Lee Chul-seung
Oh Sang-eun
Yoo Nam-kyu

Final stage knockout phase[edit]

Quarter finals[edit]

Team One Team Two Score
Germany Greece 3–1
China Sweden 3–1
France Belgium 3–2
South Korea Japan 3–2

Semifinals[edit]

Team One Team Two Score
France Germany 3-?
China South Korea 3–1

Third-place playoff[edit]

Team One Team Two Score
South Korea Germany 3–0

Final[edit]

China China 3 France France 1 Score
Kong Linghui bt Gatien 18–21 21–16 21–17
Liu Guoliang lost to Chila 17–21 21–15 10–21
Wang Tao bt Eloi 21–10 31–29
Liu Guoliang bt Gatien 21–19 21–14

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
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