1977 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/world-table-tennis-championships-medal-winners.html|title=List of Winners|publisher=All About Tennis}} {{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}

China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–0 in the final. Sweden won the bronze medal.{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}} {{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2018-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|url-status=dead}} {{cite web|url=http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|title=Swaythling Cup results|publisher=tischtennis-infos.de|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2019-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|url-status=dead}} {{cite web|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1976-77/tt_issue287.pdf|title=1977 Swaythling Cup results|publisher=Table Tennis England|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2017-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618112305/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1976-77/tt_issue287.pdf|url-status=dead}}