1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

none 1997 Swaythling Cup (men's team) 1995 2000 1997 World Table Tennis Championships The 1997 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 44th edition of the men's team championship.http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/world-table-tennis-championships-medal-winners.html List of Winners All About TennisMontague Trevor A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700 2004 The Bath Press 0-316-72645-1 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.http://sports123.com/tte/index.html Table Tennis World Championship medal winners Sports123 2018-04-29 2018-09-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html deadhttp://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/ Swaythling Cup results tischtennis-infos.de 2018-04-29 2019-05-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/ dead Medalists CHNDing SongKong LinghuiLiu GuoliangMa WengeWang Tao FRA Nicolas ChatelainPatrick ChilaDamien EloiJean-Philippe GatienChristophe LegoutKORChu Kyo-sungKim Taek-sooLee Chul-seungOh Sang-eunYoo Nam-kyu Final stage knockout phase Quarter finals Team One Team Two Score Germany Greece 3–1 China Sweden 3–1 France Belgium 3–2 South Korea Japan 3–2 Semifinals Team One Team Two ScoreFrance Germany 3-? China South Korea 3–1 Third-place playoff Team One Team Two Score South Korea Germany 3–0 Final CHN China 3 FRA 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 List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists References - Category:Men's events at the World Table Tennis Championships