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The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 23rd edition of the men's team championship.

Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–1 in the final. China and Romania won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda	Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský	China Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Tsen Huai-Kuang Wang Chuanyao Yang Jai-Hua
			Romania Matei Gantner Tiberiu Harasztosi Paul Pesch Mircea Popescu Toma Reiter

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	7	0	14
2	Romania	7	6	1	12
3	Germany	7	5	2	10
4	Hong Kong	7	4	3	8
5	Sweden	7	3	4	6
6	Philippines	7	1	6	2
7	Australia	7	1	6	2
8	Singapore	7	1	6	2

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Czechoslovakia	7	7	0	14
2	China	7	5	2	10
3	England	7	5	2	10
4	South Vietnam	7	5	2	10
5	India	7	3	4	6
6	United States	7	2	5	4
7	Korea	7	1	6	2
8	Portugal	7	0	6	0

Final

Japan 5		Czechoslovakia 1	Score
Ogimura	bt	Andreadis	26–28 21–19 21–13
Ogimura	bt	Štípek	21–6 21–18
Tanaka	bt	Vyhnanovský	21–11 18–21 21–16
Tanaka	bt	Štípek	21–12 21–13
Tsunoda	lost to	Andreadis	22–24 21–16 16–21
Tsunoda	bt	Vyhnanovský	21–11 21–19

See also

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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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 2018-04-22.
5. "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
6. "1956 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.

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