The 1947 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 14th edition of the men's team championship.
Czechoslovakia won the gold medal defeating the United States 5–2 in the final. Austria and France won bronze medals by virtue of finishing second in their groups.
Swaythling Cup table
Pool A Pos Team P W L Squad1 Czechoslovakia 8 8 0 Ivan Andreadis, Adolf Šlár, Václav Tereba, František Tokár, Bohumil Váňa 2 Austria 8 7 1 Heinrich Bednar, Otto Eckl, Johann Hartwich, Heribert Just, Ferdinand Schuech3 Sweden 8 6 2 Tage Flisberg, Olsson, Arne Andersson, Per-Olof Croneryd, Ollen4 Egypt 8 5 3 Moustapha, Hassan, Yehya, Hussein, Mansour5 Ireland 8 4 4 Victor Mercer, Ivan Martin, Harry Thuillier, Harry O'Prey6 Jewish Palestine 8 3 5 Samuel Schieff, Izio Rojzen, M. Goloub7 Denmark 8 2 6 Christian Juhl, Leif Skovgård, Emil Moeller, Helmuth Jespersen, Willy Scott Nissen 8 Luxembourg 8 1 7 Metty Steimetz, Paul Oster, Fred Wirtz, Marcel Willmes, Nic Wiltzius9 Scotland + 0 0 0 John Brown, Sidney Gillies, Peter Coia + withdrew
Pool B Pos Team P W L Squad1 United States 8 8 0 William Holzrichter, Richard Miles, Lou Pagliaro, Sol Schiff2 France 8 7 1 Alex Agopoff, Guy Amouretti, Maurice Bordrez, Michel Haguenauer, Michel Lanskoy3 Hungary 8 6 2 Ferenc Soos, Ferenc Sidó, Geza Eros, József Kóczián, László Várkonyi4 England 8 5 3 Ernest Bubley, Benny Casofsky, Eric Filby, George 'Eli' Goodman, Johnny Leach5 India 8 3 5 Sinaraman, Uttam Chandrana, Arun Kumar Ghosh, Vithal, Godrej5 Belgium 8 3 5 Roger Lejeune, Jean Buyens, Raymond Evalenko, André Staf, Pierre De Kemper7 Switzerland 8 2 6 Hugo Urchetti, Lucien Portal, Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen, Frei7 Wales 8 2 6 Walter Sweetland, S. Jones, Gerald Chugg, Peter Burrows, Roy Evans9 Netherlands 8 0 8 Cor Du Buy, André Thunnissen, Bep Van Ham, Wim Stoop, Will van Zoelen
Final Czechoslovakia 5 United States 2Andreadis lost to Pagliaro Váňa bt Pagliaro Tereba lost to Schiff Andreadis bt Schiff Andreadis bt Miles Tereba bt Miles Váňa bt Miles
See also List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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