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The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 34th edition of the men's team championship.

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	China Kuo Yao-hua Huang Liang Li Chen-shih Liang Ke-liang Wang Jun	Japan Tetsuo Inoue Mitsuru Kohno Masahiro Maehara Norio Takashima Tokio Tasaka	Sweden Stellan Bengtsson Ake Gronlund Kjell Johansson Roger Lagerfeldt Ulf Thorsell

Swaythling Cup tables

Group A

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	7
2	Hungary	7	6	1	6
3	West Germany	7	5	2	5
4	Czechoslovakia	7	4	3	4
5	France	7	3	4	3
6	England	7	2	5	2
7	Indonesia	7	1	6	1
8	Australia	7	0	7	0

Group B

Pos	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Japan	7	7	0	7
2	Sweden	7	6	1	6
3	Yugoslavia	7	5	2	5
4	Soviet Union	7	4	3	4
5	Poland	7	2	5	2
6	South Korea	7	2	5	2
7	Denmark	7	2	5	2
8	Romania	7	0	7	0

Semifinals

Third-place playoff

Final

China 5		Japan 0	Score
Huang Liang	bt	Maehara	21–16 21–14
Huang Liang	bt	Kono	21–13 21–15
Liang Ke-liang	bt	Kono	21–3 12–21 21–11
Kuo Yao-hua	bt	Takashima	21–8 21–7
Kuo Yao-hua	bt	Maehara	21–11 23–21

See also

• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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6. "1977 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-06-18. Retrieved 2018-04-27.

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