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1961 WORLD TEAM CUP 1963
1962

Great Britain seeded to the Final

CENTRAL EUROPEAN ROUND (Winner to Final) 15.07 : Liberec, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia 46 Yugoslavia 25 Czechslovakia B* 21 Austria 4
Bedrich Slany 12 Franc Babic 9 Zdenek Kovar 8 Josef Bossner 3
Jaroslav Wolf 12 Valent Medved 7 Pavel Mares 5 Johan Hartl 1
Karel Prusa 11 Drago Perko 5 Frantisek Hubner 4 Helmut Happer 0
Lubos Tomicek 11 Drago Regvart 4 Stanislav Svoboda 4 Kurt Schwingenschlogl 0
* Czechoslovakia B replaced West Germany, whose team was said to be too weak.

SCANDINAVIAN ROUND (Winner to Final) 23.04 : Vetlanda, Sweden (Att: 5,000)
Sweden 41 Norway 24 Denmark 17 Finland 14

Vetlanda 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total
Joel Jansson 1 3 2 0 6
Ove Fundin 3 3 3 3 12
Rune Sormander 3 3 3 3 12
Leif Larsson 3 3 2 3 11
G Johansson † -
SWEDEN 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 24 27 30 32 32 35 38 41 41
Aage Hansen 3 1 3 2 9
Sverre Harrfeldt 1 2 2 3 8
Egil Bratvold 0 2 2 1 5
Cato Agnor 1 0 0 1 2
Per Aulie † -
NORWAY 3 4 4 5 6 8 10 10 13 15 17 17 20 22 23 24 24
Einar Hansen 2 0 1 0 3
Kurt W Pedersen 2 2 3 2 9
Svend Nissen 1 2 1 1 5
John S Andersen 0 0 0 0 0
Bent Jensen † -
DENMARK 2 4 5 5 7 7 7 9 10 10 11 14 15 15 17 17 17
Ilkka Helminen 0 - - - 0
Aanti Pajari 0 1 0 2 3
Timo Laine 2 1 1 1 5
Kalevi Lahtinen 2 0 0 2 4
Esko Koponen † 1 1 0 2
FINLAND 0 0 2 4 4 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 11 12 12 14 14

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Two different colour versions of the Vetlanda programme ...

EAST EUROPEAN ROUND (Winner to Final) 15.07 : Rzeszow, Poland (Att: 25,000)
Poland 43 Soviet Union 33 Bulgaria 13 East Germany 7

Rzeszow 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total
1 Florian Kapala 3 3 3 3 12
2 Marian Kaiser 3 3 3 3 12
3 Henryk Zyto 3 3 1 ex 7
4 Stefan Kepa 3 3 3 3 12
17 Joachim Maj † -
POLAND 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 31 34 37 40 40 43 43
13 Igor Plechanov absent ill - - - - -
14 Boris Samorodov 2 2 2 2 8
15 Farid Szajnurov 2 2 3 2 9
16 Leonid Drobiasko 2 2 2 3 9
20 Vladimir Sokolov † 2 2 2 1 7
SOVIET UNION 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 23 25 27 28 31 33 33
5 Milko Pejkov 1 1 2 2 6
6 Boris Damjanov 1 0 0 1 2
7 Dimitri Bajev 1 1 1 0 3
8 Krasimir Sokolov 0 0 0 2 2
18 S Lukanov † -
BULGARIA 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 7 8 8 10 12 13 13
9 Gunther Schelenz 0 1 0 1 2
10 Josef Kohl 0 - - - 0
11 Jurgen Hehlert 1 0 0 0 1
12 Wilhelm Gunther 0 0 1 - 1
19 Werner Frenzel † 1 1 1 0 3
EAST GERMANY 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 7
Time 78.2 76.4 79.2 76.8 76.2 77.6 78.2 77.6 76.8 78.2 ? 77.4 79.4 ? 79.8 79.8

FINAL 29.07 : Slany, Czechoslovakia (Att: 50,000)
Sweden 36 Great Britain* 24 Poland 20 Czechoslovakia 16
* Contemporary press reports referred to this team as British Commonwealth

Slany 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Total
Ove Fundin 0 3 3 3 9
Gote Nordin 0 1 3 - 4
Soren Sjosten 3 3 3 1 10
Bjorn Knutsson 3 2 3 2 10
Rune Sormander † 3 3
SWEDEN 0 0 3 6 8 11 12 15 18 21 24 27 29 30 33 36 36
Ronnie Moore 3 3 1 3 10
Peter Craven 1 1 2 2 6
Ron How 0 0 0 - 0
Barry Briggs 2 2 2 2 8
Cyril Maidment † 0 0
GREAT BRITAIN 3 4 4 6 6 8 11 12 14 14 16 17 20 22 24 24 24
Marian Kaiser 2 3 1 3 9
Florian Kapala 2 1 2 0 5
Pawel Waloszek 2 f - f 2
Joachim Maj 1 2 0 1 4
Mieczyslaw Polukard † 0 0
POLAND 2 4 6 7 10 11 11 13 14 16 16 16 16 19 19 20 20
Bedrich Slany 1 0 1 2 4
Lubos Tomicek 3 1 2 1 7
Karel Prusa 1 0 - 1 2
Jaroslav Volf 0 2 1 0 3
Bohumil Bartonek † 0 0
CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1 4 5 5 6 6 8 8 8 9 10 12 13 13 14 16 16
Time 75.0 76.0 76.8 74.8 75.8 77.0 76.0 76.4 77.0 75.8 75.6 76.4 75.8 77.0 76.2 77.4

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Contributors : Christian Weber, Roger Stevens, Stanislaw Szczucinski, Jonas Holmqvist, Robert Rudiak

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