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The table tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. [1] [2] A total of 175 table tennis players, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions.
Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for men and women. [1] [2] Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 66 medals in 42 events, including 37 out of a possible 42 gold medals, and only failing to win at least one medal in one event, the inaugural men's singles event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Sweden's Truls Möregårdh pulled off the upset of the 2024 Paris Olympics after he defeated China's Wang Chuqin, the top-ranked table tennis player in the world, in men's singles action on Wednesday.
Table tennis was a sport at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (postponed to 2021 [1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and featured 173 table tennis players. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on eight previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics .
China's Ma Long celebrates during their men's table tennis doubles match in the team quarter-finals between China and South Korea on day twelve of the Paris Summer Olympics on Aug. 7, 2024.
Egypt's Omar Assar lost 4-1 in a battle against defending champion Ma Long on Wednesday, but he leaves with confidence as the first paddler to storm into Olympic singles quarter-finals from his ...
Results Books : Tokyo 2020. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. (2021). Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. ITTF; 2020 Summer Olympics / Table Tennis / Singles, Men. Olympedia.org
TOKYO (Reuters) -China's Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen and Japan's Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito won their mixed doubles semi-finals on Sunday to reach the event's first Olympic final. World number two Xu, 31 ...