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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.

United States won the gold medal after defeating Hungary 5–3 in the final.

Swaythling Cup table

Pos	Team	P	W	L	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

United States 5	Hungary 3	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

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. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-10.

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