1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 34th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Kuo Yao-hua Huang Liang Li Chen-shih Liang Ke-liang Wang Jun	Mitsuru Kohno Masahiro Maehara Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka	Ake Gronlund Kjell Johansson Roger Lagerfeldt Ulf Thorsell

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	Hungary	7	6	1	6
3	West Germany	7	5	2	5
4	Czechoslovakia	7	4	3	4
5	France	7	3	4	3
6	England	7	2	5	2
7	Indonesia	7	1	6	1
8	Australia	7	0	7	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	7	0	7
2	Sweden	7	6	1	6
3	Yugoslavia	7	5	2	5
4	Soviet Union	7	4	3	4
5	Poland	7	2	5	2
6	South Korea	7	2	5	2
7	Denmark	7	2	5	2
8	Romania	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Third-place playoff

Final

China 5		Japan 0	Score
Huang Liang	bt	Maehara	21–16 21–14
Huang Liang	bt	Kono	21–13 21–15
Liang Ke-liang	bt	Kono	21–3 12–21 21–11
Kuo Yao-hua	bt	Takashima	21–8 21–7
Kuo Yao-hua	bt	Maehara	21–11 23–21

See also

• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References