Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

In the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 two competitions were held in table tennis both for women and for men: individual and team competitions. The double contests that were an Olympic discipline up to the Summer Games in 2004, accounted for. The venue was the sports hall of Peking University.

  • 2.1 Single 2.1.1 Direct qualification
  • 2.1.2 Qualification Tournaments
  • 2.1.3 World Qualification Tournament
  • 3.1 medalist
  • 3.2 team preliminaries
  • 3.3 Team Final Round
  • 3.4 Single Round 2
  • 3.5 Single Round 3
  • 3.6 Single knockout round
  • 3.7 singles quarter-finals - Final
  • 4.1 medalist
  • 4.2 team preliminaries
  • 4.3 Team Final Round
  • 4.4 Single Round 2
  • 4.5 Single Round 3
  • 4.6 Single knockout round
  • 4.7 singles quarter-finals - Final

Game Mode

Individual competition

The individual competition was a knockout system. Who lost a game was eliminated from the tournament, the winner moved into the next round. Four winning sets were played per match.

The individual players went into the tournament in different rounds. For placement in the seedings of the International Table Tennis Federation ( ITTF ) is being used. The following table shows the different phases.

Team competition

A team consisted of three players of the same nation. To win a match, a team had to finish victorious three games. A meeting consisted of at least two singles and a double. If after these three games, no decision have fallen, one or two additional single were played until one team had three games won. Each player in a team was allowed to be used per match at most twice. In the case of five games per match then everyone came twice to use; a player in two singles and the other in each case a single and the double. The system was chosen so that a player can not enter all the necessary points for a win. It was called the Beijing system.

The team competition has evolved from a group stage. Following was played by a knockout system. In each game, three winning sets were played by the same rules as in the singles competition.

In the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. Here, everyone plays against everyone. The group first came to the semifinals, where they eventually played for the gold medal and silver medal at the finals and. The runners-up play a separate semi-finals. The two winners played with the losers of the semi-finals of the first group in the knockout system for the bronze medal.

Qualification

The following qualification criteria were used for both ladies and gentlemen:

Singles

Direct qualification

First, an adjusted world ranking was out of the world rankings in January 2008 formed by only the top two athletes of a nation be taken over in the world rankings, with the remaining athletes were deleted.

The top 20 in the world rankings were adjusted directly qualified. Thus, out of a nation either two or one or no athletes qualified directly.

Qualifiers

Other starting points were awarded over continental qualification tournaments, with a maximum of three athletes per gender in a country were allowed to participate in the Games. Each nation was allowed so again send at least one and at most three representatives in the qualifiers, depending on how many had qualified directly through the world rankings (3 minus the number of directly -skilled ). These qualifiers six places for Africa, eleven in Asia, eleven for Europe, six in South America, three in North America and Oceania for three were awarded.

World Qualification Tournament

Three other starting places were awarded at a final qualifying tournament, could participate in the athletes from every continent, and for the last spot a wild card was left open.

Men

In the team competition: 16 teams participated. China as the host nation was automatically qualified. Furthermore, given each of the six continents ( North and South America are separate) awarded a quota on the grid. This was awarded to the team in the world rankings on best classified team of the continent, where it could send three individual competitors to Beijing. Emits from one continent not a country three single starter, takes the best team with two individual starters part in the team competition; two starters were also no country deploys, the bestklassierte team was qualified with a single starter. The remaining nine starting positions were awarded on the basis of team rankings. It qualified the nine teams that were the highest placed in the world rankings and at least two individual starters sent to Beijing. In the event that there were fewer than nine nations with at least two individual starters, moved the top ranked countries according to a single starter. In the event that hosts China also qualified as a continental representative of Asia and for a place became vacant, were awarded on the team rankings ten instead of nine starting positions.

Qualified athletes

Both Germany and Austria were set with Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Christian Suss or Werner Schlager, Chen Weixing and Robert Gardos in the men's contingent in the full single in Beijing.

For women, two German and Liu Jia and Li Qiangbing were two Austrians qualified with Wu Jiaduo and Elke Wosik.

The full list of qualified athletes was published on 11 July 2008 by the ITTF ( International Table Tennis Federation). In the women's 78 and qualified in the men's 77 athletes.

Qualified teams

It qualified 16 nations for the team competition of the ladies or gentlemen. The following lists correspond to the official ranking for the 2008 Olympic Games:

Results Women

Medalist

The team from China won gold with 3-0 in the final against Singapore. The bronze went to South Korea as the men's. In the individual all the medals were awarded to the players from China.

Team

Singles

Team preliminaries

Team Final Round

Bronze Play-off Round 1

Semifinal

Bronze Play-off Round 2

3rd Place Match

Final

Single Round 2

Single Round 3

Single knockout round

Singles quarter-finals - Final

Results Men

Medalist

Team

The Chinese team with the former world number one Wang Hao and Ma Lin and the Second Single 2007 World Champion Wang Liqin has become her role as favorite. You chose all five games with 3-0 and won the gold medal ahead of Germany and South Korea.

Singles

For the first time the Chinese men won all three medals at the Olympics in singles. The at that time world number two Ma Lin won against the run at number one Wang Hao in the final 4-1. Third was the world champion in singles from 2007 Wang Liqin.

Team preliminaries

Team Final Round

Bronze Play-off Round 1

Semifinal

Bronze Play-off Round 2

3rd Place Match

Final

Single Round 2

Single Round 3

Single knockout round

Singles quarter-finals - Final

Find out more

  • The age range of the participants vary in the men of 15 years ( Marcelo Aguirre, Paraguay) to 46 years (He Zhiwen, Spain), with the ladies of 16 years ( Noha Yossry, Egypt) to 45 years (Ni Xialian, Luxembourg ).
  • Dispute there was before, as Jörgen Persson and Jean-Michel Saive tied occupied 20th place in the adjusted rankings. The decision of the ITTF to prefer Persson, since this was with 0.25 points in advantage was controversial. For the future was therefore determined, which is used the previous world ranking on points.
  • The Swede Matilda Ekholm qualified for participation in sports, but was not approved by the Swedish NOK due to lack of success. A similar fate befell the Tunisian Nesrine Ben Kahia and Safa Saidani, New Zealander Karen Li and the Dutchman Trinko Keen.
  • The table tennis player Li Jia Wei of Singapore carried the flag at the opening ceremony.

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