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The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 35th edition of the men's team championship.

Hungary won the gold medal defeating China 5–1 in the final. Japan won the bronze medal.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Hungary Gábor Gergely István Jónyer Tibor Klampár Tibor Kreisz János Takács	China Guo Yuehua Huang Liang Li Zhenshi Liang Geliang Lu Qiwei	Japan Hiroyuki Abe Hideo Gotoh Masahiro Maehara Seiji Ono Norio Takashima

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Hungary	8	8	0	8
2	China	8	7	1	7
3	France	8	5	3	5
4	South Korea	8	5	3	5
5	Yugoslavia	8	4	4	4
6	West Germany	8	4	4	4
7	Poland	8	2	6	1
8	United States	8	1	7	0
9	Romania	8	0	8	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	7
2	Japan	7	6	1	6
3	Soviet Union	7	4	3	4
4	Sweden	7	4	3	4
5	England	7	3	4	3
6	Australia	7	2	5	2
7	Denmark	7	2	5	2
8	Hong Kong	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Third-place play off

Final

Hungary 5		China 1	Score
Gergely	bt	Guo Yuehua	21–10 21–18
Jónyer	bt	Lu Qiwei	21–12 21–19
Klampár	bt	Li Zhenshi	21–17 21–11
Jónyer	lost to	Guo Yuehua	21–17 19–21 19–21
Gergely	bt	Li Zhenshi	13–21 21–9 21–17
Klampár	bt	Lu Qiwei	17–21 21–10 21–11

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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6. "1979 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2018-04-27.

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