2000 Summer Olympics / table tennis

At the 2000 Olympic Games in the Australian metropolis of Sydney , four table tennis competitions were held.

The venue was the State Sports Center in the Sydney Olympic Park .
All gold medals went to the Chinese, as did almost all silver medals. Only the Swede Jan-Ove Waldner reached the final in the singles.

Cutting off the Germans

Men's

The furthest came Jörg Roßkopf , who after victories over Ashraf Helmy (Egypt), Yongxiang David Zhuang (USA), Peter Karlsson (Sweden) and Toshio Tasaki (Japan) reached the quarter-finals, where he lost against the Chinese Liu Guoliang . Timo Boll failed in the round of 16 to Werner Schlager (Austria) after defeating Hamad Al Hammadi (Qatar), Liu Song (Argentina) and Kim Taek-soo (South Korea). Peter Franz won in the preliminary round against Matthew Syed (England) and Jean-Patrick Sahajasein (Mauritius), but was eliminated in round 1 against Jörgen Persson (Sweden).

Since the "standard double" Roßkopf / Fetzner missed the qualification in advance, the "emergency double" Roßkopf / Boll was formed from the individual qualified German participants . This got stuck in the preliminary round: A win against Brett Clarke / Jeffrey Wayne Plumb (Australia) and the defeat against Slobodan Grujić / Ilija Lupulesku (Yugoslavia) were not enough to advance.

Ladies

Also qianhong gotsch reached the knockout stages. She won against Rinko Sakata (Japan) and Suk Eun-mi (South Korea) and lost to Chen Jing (Taiwan). Jing Tian-Zörner was eliminated immediately by Åsa Svensson (Sweden), as was Jie Schöpp by Chen Tong Feiming (Taiwan).

The Gotsch / Schöpp double survived the preliminary round with wins over Wenxiao Wang / Hong Guang Chris Xu (Canada) and Gao Chang Jun / Michelle Do (USA), but then failed against the Hungarians Csilla Bátorfi / Krisztina Tóth . Schall / Struse came just as far, winning against Tawny Ai Banh / Jasna Reed (USA) and Li Chunli / Li Karen (siblings from New Zealand) in the preliminary round and eliminated in round 1 against Li Ju / Wang Nan (China).

Men

singles

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Kong Linghui
2	Sweden	Jan-Ove Waldner
3	People's Republic of China	Liu Guoliang

Results

Endgame:

Kong Linghui ( CHN )	-	Jan-Ove Waldner ( SWE )	3: 2 (21:16, 21:19, 17:21, 14:21, 21:13)

3rd place match:

Liu Guoliang ( CHN )	-	Jörgen Persson ( SWE )	3: 1 (21:18, 19:21, 21:14, 21:13)

Semifinals:

Kong Linghui ( CHN )	-	Jörgen Persson ( SWE )	3: 1 (21:12, 13:21, 21:16, 21:13)
Jan-Ove Waldner ( SWE )	-	Liu Guoliang ( CHN )	3: 0 (21:19, 21:16, 21:19)

Double

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Wang Liqin Yan Sen
2	People's Republic of China	Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang
3	France	Patrick Chila Jean-Philippe Gatien

Results

Endgame:

Wang Liqin / Yan Sen ( CHN )	-	Kong Linghui / Liu Guoliang ( CHN )	3: 1 (22:20, 17:21, 21:19, 21:18)

3rd place match:

Patrick Chila / Jean-Philippe Gatien ( FRA )	-	Lee Chul-seung / Ryu Seung-min ( KOR )	3: 1 (22:20, 21:23, 21:19, 21:10)

Semifinals:

Kong Linghui / Liu Guoliang ( CHN )	-	Patrick Chila / Jean-Philippe Gatien ( FRA })	3: 1 (21:12, 22:24, 21:10, 21:10)
Wang Liqin / Yan Sen ( CHN )	-	Lee Chul-seung / Ryu Seung-min ( KOR )	3: 1 (21:12, 21:19, 17:21, 21:18)

Women

singles

space	country	Player
1	People's Republic of China	Wang Nan
2	People's Republic of China	Li Ju
3	Chinese Taipei	Chen Jing

Results

Endgame:

Wang Nan ( CHN )	-	Li Ju ( CHN )	3: 2 (21:12, 12:21, 19:21, 21:17, 21:18)

3rd place match:

Chen Jing ( TPE )	-	Jing Jun Hong ( SIN )	3: 1 (18:21, 21:14, 21:15, 21:10)

Semifinals:

Wang Nan ( CHN )	-	Chen Jing ( TPE )	3: 1 (12:21, 22:20, 21:17, 21:15)
Li Ju ( CHN )	-	Jing Jun Hong ( SIN )	3: 1 (15:21, 21:13, 21:12, 21:19)

Double

space	country	Players
1	People's Republic of China	Li Ju Wang Nan
2	People's Republic of China	Yang Ying Sun Jin
3	South Korea	Kim Moo-kyo Ryu Ji-hae

Results

Endgame:

Li Ju / Wang Nan ( CHN )	-	Yang Ying / Sun Jin ( CHN )	3: 0 (21:18, 21:11, 21:11)

3rd place match:

Kim Moo-kyo / Ryu Ji-hae ( KOR )	-	Csilla Bátorfi / Krisztina Tóth ( HUN )	3: 2 (21:18, 21:19, 22:24, 19:21, 21:19)

Semifinals:

Li Ju / Wang Nan ( CHN )	-	Kim Moo-kyo / Ryu Ji-hae ( KOR )	3: 2 (17:21, 21:15, 15:21, 21:14, 24:22)
Yang Ying / Sun Jin ( CHN )	-	Csilla Bátorfi / Krisztina Tóth ( HUN )	3: 1 (17:21, 21:18, 21:14, 21:17)

Table tennis medal table

Table tennis medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	People's Republic of China	4th	3	1	8th
2	Sweden	-	1	-	1
3	Chinese Taipei	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
	South Korea	-	-	1	1

literature

• Preliminary report: DTS magazine , 2000/9 pp. 32–37
• Report: DTS magazine , 2000/10 pp. 12-27

Web links

• Entry in ITTF database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ qualification tournament in Rotterdam; here the double Peter Franz / Torben Wosik fell by the wayside - magazine DTS , 2000/1 pp. 20-21
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Results Sydney 2000
3. ↑ Detailed analysis of the endgame - DTS magazine , 2000/11 pp. 40–43