1988 Summer Olympics / table tennis

The XXIV. 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was table tennis Olympic for the first time. There were four competitions in singles and doubles for women and men. The venue was the National University Gymnasium.

prehistory

Table tennis was declared an Olympic sport in Baden-Baden from 1988 by a resolution of the IOC on October 1, 1981.

In 1988 64 men and 48 women were allowed to take part. Each country was allowed to register a maximum of three men and two women. Under this premise, the first 16 men and the first 12 women of the ITTF world rankings were automatically qualified . The remaining participants were determined in regional qualification tournaments:

• Asia and Europe: 12 men and 9 women each
• Latin America and Africa: 8 men and 6 women each
• North America and Africa: 2 men and 1 woman each

Competition mode

In the individual, eight groups with eight participants each were formed for the men and eight groups with six players each for the women. In a group everyone played against everyone, the first two made it to the round of 16. Here it went on in the knockout system.

Similarly, groups of eight were formed in the double competitions: four for the men, with the first two progressing, two for the women, where the first four made it to the quarter-finals. Three sets of wins were played in the singles and two sets in the doubles.

Performance of the German participants

Of the German participants, only Olga Nemes was able to qualify for the round of 16. All others were eliminated in the group matches. Istvan Korpa for the women and Zlatko Cordas for the men were on site as supervisors .

Men's singles

Georg Böhm was third in Group B behind Waldner and Xu Zengcai . He won against Barry Griffiths (New Zealand), Patrick Birocheau (France), Tony Meringgi (Indonesia), Chih Chin-Long (Taiwan) and Gilany Hosnani (Mauritius), lost but against Xu Zengcai (China) and Waldner .

Jörg Roßkopf came in Group D together with Zoran Primorac behind Andrzej Grubba on place 2–3, but was eliminated because of the lost direct comparison. He won against Gary Haberl (Australia), Yoshihito Myazaki (Japan), Sujay Chorpade (India), Atanda Musa (Nigeria) and Francisco Lopez (Venezuela), but lost against Zoran Primorac (Yugoslavia) and Andrzej Grubba (Poland).

Men's doubles

Böhm / Rebel took 6th place in group B with a 2: 5 result. Roßkopf / Fetzner scored positively with 5: 2 in group D, but it was only enough for third place.

Ladies singles

Olga Nemes came in second in Group H behind the Korean Hong Cha-ok , against whom she suffered her only defeat. She defeated Lyabo Akanmu (Nigeria), Mirjam Kloppenburg (Netherlands), Jacqueline Diaz (Chile) and Csilla Bátorfi (Hungary). In the last sixteen she was defeated by the Chinese Li Huifen .

Katja Nolten came in group E 2: 3 in 4th place. The two victories over Kuburat Owolabi (Nigeria) and Monica Liyau (Peru) were three defeats against Jasna Fazlic (Yugoslavia), Jung Hwa Hyun (Korea) and Mika Hoshino (Japan ) across from.

Ladies doubles

The only German women's doubles Nemes / Nolten achieved 5th place in Group B with 2: 4.

useful information

Several observers criticized the large differences in performance among the participants, which led to many unattractive and one-sided games. In Olga Nemes and Katja Nolten a Quiz was carried out by means of a saliva sample.

Results

Men's singles

space	country	player
1	COR	Yoo Nam-Kyu
2	COR	Kim Ki-taik
3	SWE	Erik Lindh

Men's doubles

space	country	player
1	CHN	Chen Longcan , Wei Qingguang
2	YUG	Ilija Lupulesku , Zoran Primorac
3	COR	Ahn Jae-Hyung , Yoo Nam-Kyu

Ladies singles

space	country	Player
1	CHN	Chen Jing
2	CHN	Li Huifen
3	CHN	Jiao Zhimin

Ladies doubles

space	country	Players
1	COR	Jung Hwa Hyun , Yang Young-ja
2	CHN	Chen Jing , Jiao Zhimin
3	YUG	Jasna Fazlić , Gordana Perkučin

Table tennis medal table

Table tennis medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	People's Republic of China	2	2	1	5
2	South Korea	2	1	1	4th
3	Yugoslavia	-	1	1	2
4th	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Entry in ITTF database

literature

• DTS: The decision was made in Baden Baden - table tennis in 1988 in the Olympic program , DTS magazine , 1981/20 pp. 3-4
• Norbert Wolf: Table tennis and the Olympics: Slipped through the rings , 75 years of the German Table Tennis Association - A game for life, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 87-89
• Detailed report: Zeitschrift DTS , 1988/10 pp. 3–9 and pp. 24–26
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume one, part two (pdf, English, 26 MB)
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ magazine DTS 1988/10, pp 3-9 and S. 26th