2001 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

2001 men's team (Swaythling Cup)

Main article: 2001 World Table Tennis Championships

The 2001 World Table Tennis Championships – men's team (Swaythling Cup) was the 46th edition of the men's team championship.[1] [2]

China won the gold medal defeating Belgium 3–0 in the final. Sweden and South Korea won bronze medals.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Liu Guozheng Ma Lin Wang Liqin	Belgium Martin Bratanov Marc Closset Andras Podpinka Jean-Michel Saive Philippe Saive	South Korea Joo Se-Hyuk Kim Taek-Soo Lee Chul-Seung Oh Sang-Eun Ryu Seung-Min
			Sweden Fredrik Håkansson Peter Karlsson Magnus Molin Jörgen Persson Jan-Ove Waldner

Final stage knockout phase

Round of 16

Team One	Team Two	Score
China	Netherlands	3–1
South Korea	Czech Republic	3–2
Belgium	Yugoslavia	3–0
Italy	Japan	3–0
Germany	Poland	3-2
Sweden	Greece	3-1
Austria	Chinese Taipei	3–2
France	Belarus	3–2

Quarter finals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Sweden	Austria	3–0
China	Germany	3–1
Belgium	Italy	3–0
South Korea	France	3–2

Semifinals

Team One	Team Two	Score
Belgium	Sweden	3–1
China	South Korea	3–2

Final

China 3		Belgium 0	Score
Ma Lin	bt	Jean-Michel Saive	18–21 21–7 21–15
Liu Guozheng	bt	Philippe Saive	21–18 21–17
Kong Linghui	bt	Martin Bratanov	21–18 21–19

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 2018-04-30.
4. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
5. "2001 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
6. "2001 Final". China Daily.