1993 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

1993 Swaythling Cup (men's team)

Main article: 1993 World Table Tennis Championships

The 1993 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 42nd edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

Sweden won the gold medal defeating China 3–1 in the final. Germany won the bronze medal defeating the North Korea 3–0 in the bronze medal play off.[3] [4] [5]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Sweden Mikael Appelgren Peter Karlsson Erik Lindh Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner	China Liu Guoliang Lü Lin Ma Wenge Wang Hao Wang Tao Zhang Lei	Germany Oliver Alke Steffen Fetzner Peter Franz Richard Prause Jörg Roßkopf

Final Stage knockout phase

Quarter finals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Sweden	Belgium	3–0
China	Japan	3–0
Germany	South Korea	3–2
North Korea	France	3–2

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Sweden	North Korea	3–1
China	Germany	3–1

Third-place playoff

Team One	Team Two	Score
Germany	North Korea	3–0

Final

Sweden 3		China 1	Score
Karlsson	bt	Wang Hao	13–21 21–19 21–16
Waldner	lost to	Ma Wenge	14–21 21–14 20–22
Persson	bt	Wang Tao	26–24 16–21 21–16
Waldner	bt	Wang Hao	21–16 17–21 21–13

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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.
5. "1993 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-29.