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

SCANDINAVIAN ROUND (Winner to Final)
23.04 : Vetlanda,	*Sweden*	41	Norway	24	Denmark	17	Finland	14
Sweden	Ove Fundin	12	Aage Hansen	9	Kurt W Pedersen	9	Timo Laine	5
	Rune Sormander	12	Sverre Harrfeldt	8	Svend Nissen	5	Kalevi Lahtinen	4
	Leif Larsson	11	Egil Bratvold	5	Einar Hansen	3	Antti Pajari	3
	Joel Jansson	6	Cato Agnor	2	John S Andersen	0	Esko Koponen†	2
	G Johansson †	-	Per Aulie †	-	Bent Jensen †	-	Ilkka Helminen	0

1: A Hansen, E Hansen, Jansson, Helminen
2: Fundin, Pedersen, Harrfeldt, Pajari
3: Sormander, Laine, Nissen, Bratvold
4: Larsson, Lahtinen, Agnor, Andersen

5: Sormander, Pedersen, A Hansen, Lahtinen
6: Larsson, Harrfeldt, Laine, E Hansen
7: Jansson, Bratvold, Pajari, Andersen
8: Fundin, Nissen, Kaponen, Agnor

9: A Hansen, Larsson, Nissen, Pajari
10: Sormander, Harrfeldt, Koponen, Andersen
11: Fundin, Bratvold, E Hansen, Lahtinen
12: Pedersen, Jansson, Laine, Agnor

13: Harrfeldt, Lahtinen, Nissen, Jansson
14: Fundin, A Hansen, Laine, Andersen
15: Larsson, Pedersen, Bratvold, Koponen
16: Sormander, Pajari, Agnor, E Hansen

EAST EUROPEAN ROUND (Winner to Final)
15.07 : Rzeszow,	*Poland*	43	Soviet Union	33	Bulgaria	13	East Germany	7
Poland	Marian Kaiser	12-4	Leonid Drobiasko	9-4	Milko Pejkov	6-4	Werner Frenzel	3-4
(Att: 25,000)	Florian Kapala	12-4	Farid Szajnurov	9-4	Dimitri Bajev	3-4	Günther Schelenz	2-4
	Stefan Kepa	12-4	Boris Samorodov	8-4	Boris Damjanov	2-4	W Günther	1-3
	Henryk Zyto	7-4	Vladimir Sokolov	7-4	Krasimir Sokolov	2-4	Jurgen Hehlert	1-4
							Josef Kohl †	0-1

FINAL
29.07 : Slany,	*Sweden*	36	Great Britain*	24	Poland	20	Czechoslovakia	16
Czechoslovakia	Bjorn Knutsson	10-4	Ronnie Moore	10-4	Marian Kaiser	9-4	Lubos Tomicek	7-4
(Att: 50,000)	Soren Sjosten	10-4	Barry Briggs	8-4	Florian Kapala	5-4	Bedrich Slany	4-4
	Ove Fundin	9-4	Peter Craven	6-4	Joachim Maj	4-4	Jaroslav Wolf	3-4
	Gote Nordin	4-3	Ron How	0-3	Pawel Waloszek	2-3	Karel Prusa	2-3
	Rune Sormander †	3-1	Cyril Maidment †	0-1	Mieczyslaw Polukard†	0-1	Bohumil Bartonek †	0-1
	* Contemporary press reports referred to this team as British Commonwealth

1: Moore, Kaiser, Slany, Fundin 2: Tomicek, Kapala, Craven, Nordin 3: Sjosten, Waloszek, Prusa, How 4: Knutsson, Briggs, Maj, Volf 5: Kaiser, Knutsson, Tomicek, How 6: Sjosten, Briggs, Kapala, Slany	7: Moore, Volf, Nordin, Waloszek f 8: Fundin, Maj, Craven, Prusa 9: Nordin, Briggs, Kaiser, Bartonek 10: Fundin, Kapala, Volf, How 11: Knutsson, Craven, Slany, Polukard	12: Sjosten.Tomicek, Moore, Maj 13: Moore, Knutsson, Prusa, Kapala 14: Kaiser, Craven, Sjosten, Volf 15: Fundin, Briggs, Tomicek, Waloszek f 16: Sormander, Slany, Maj, Maidment

† reserve

Contributors : Christian Weber, Roger Stevens, Stanislaw Szczucinski

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