1937 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team explained

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The 1937 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 11th edition of the men's team championship.^{[1] [2]}

United States won the gold medal after defeating Hungary 5–3 in the final.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Swaythling Cup table

width=15	Pos	width=150	Team	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=600	Squad
1	United States	12	11	1	Abe Berenbaum, Robert Blattner, James McClure, Sol Schiff
1	Hungary	12	11	1	Viktor Barna, Laszlo Bellak, Istvan Lovaszy, Ferenc Soos, Miklós Szabados
3	Czechoslovakia	12	10	2	Miloslav Hamr, Stanislav Kolář, Pavel Löwy, Adolf Šlár, Bohumil Váňa
4	Austria	12	9	3	Richard Bergmann, Helmut Goebel, Hans Hartinger, Alfred Liebster, Papazian
4	Poland	12	9	3	Alojzy Ehrlich, Samuel Schieff, Shimcha Finkelstein, Jezierski
6	Yugoslavia	12	7	5	Max Marinko, Milan Lazar, Ladislav Hexner, Sergej Seneković, Karlo Stein
7	England	12	5	7	Ken Hyde, Adrian Haydon, Maurice Bergl, Andrew Millar, Stanley Proffitt
8	Romania	12	4	8	Farkas Paneth, Mircea Sapira, Geza Eros, Krebs
8	France	12	4	8	Michel Haguenauer, Charles Dubouillé, Raoul Bedoc, Jean-Claude Guérin, Paul Wolschoefer, Daniel Guérin
8	Lithuania	12	4	8	Vytautas Gerulaitis, Vilius Variakojis, Vladas Dzindziliauskas
11	Germany	12	2	10	Georg Kutz, Helmut Ullrich, Erwin Munchow, Heinz Benthien
12	Belgium	12	1	11	Roger Lejeune, Max Kahn, André Staf
13	Egypt	12	1	11	Mansour Helmy, Marcel Geargoura, Hassan Abou Heif, Tawhid Helal, Anwar Massaoud, Said Hegazi

Final

width=150	United States 5	width=150	Hungary 3	width=200	Scores
McClure	Bellak	21-12 21-17
Schiff	Bellak	18-21 21-13 21-16
Schiff	Soos	21-8 20-22 26-24
Blattner	Soos	21-17 13-21 13-21
McClure	Soos	21-12 19-21 11-10+
Blattner	Barna	17-21 21-17 18-21
McClure	Barna	21-14 18-21 21-17
Schiff	Barna	24-22 21-18
Blattner	Bellak	13-21 21-4 14-21

+ drawn

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of Winners. All About Tennis.
2. Book: Montague, Trevor. A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
3. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-04-10. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
5. Web site: Swaythling Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 2018-04-10. 2019-05-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.