Olympic Summer Games 2008 / table tennis

Peking University sports hall

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , two table tennis competitions were held for both women and men: individual and team competitions. The double competitions, which were an Olympic discipline until the 2004 Summer Games , were canceled. The venue was the Peking University sports hall .

qualification

The following qualification criteria applied to women and men:

singles

Direct qualification

First of all, an adjusted world ranking was formed from the world ranking list from January 2008 , in which only the two best-placed athletes of a nation are taken over in the world ranking list, the remaining athletes were deleted.

The top 20 of the adjusted world rankings were directly qualified. Thus either two or one or no athletes from one nation are directly qualified.

Qualifying tournaments

Additional starting places were allocated through continental qualification tournaments, with a maximum of three athletes from one country per gender being allowed to participate in the games. Each nation was allowed to send at least one and a maximum of three representatives into the qualifying tournaments, depending on how many had qualified directly via the world rankings (3 minus the number of those directly qualified). In these qualifying tournaments, six starting places were awarded for Africa , eleven for Asia , eleven for Europe , six for South America , three for North America and three for Oceania .

World qualification tournament

Three more starting places were awarded at a final qualifying tournament, in which athletes from all continents could participate, and a wildcard was left open for the last starting place .

Teams

16 teams took part in each of the team competitions. China as the host nation was automatically qualified. Furthermore, each of the six continents (North and South America count separately) were awarded a quota starting place. This went to the best-placed team on the continent in the team world rankings, provided it was able to send three individual starters to Beijing. If no country sends three individual starters from a continent, the best team with two individual starters takes part in the team competition; if no two starters were sent by any country, the top-ranked team was qualified with a single starter. The remaining nine starting places were allocated based on the team world ranking. The nine teams that were highest in the world rankings and sent at least two individual starters to Beijing qualified. In the event that there were fewer than nine nations with at least two individual starters, the best-placed countries with a single starter moved up. In the event that host China also qualified as a continental representative of Asia and thus a place became free, ten instead of nine starting places were awarded via the team world ranking.

Qualified athletes

With Timo Boll , Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Christian Süß and Werner Schlager , Chen Weixing and Robert Gardos, both Germany and Austria were able to provide the full contingent in the men's singles in Beijing.

Two Germans, Wu Jiaduo and Elke Wosik, and two Austrians, Liu Jia and Li Qiangbing, qualified for the women .

The full list of qualified athletes was published on July 11, 2008 by the ITTF ( International Table Tennis Federation ). A total of 78 women qualified and 77 men qualified.

Qualified teams

16 nations qualified for the team competition for women and men. The following lists correspond to the official ranking for the 2008 Olympic Games:

Ladies
People's Republic of China  Singapore  Hong Kong  South Korea  Japan  Germany  Netherlands  Austria	United States  Croatia  Spain  Poland  Romania  Australia  Dominican Republic  Nigeria

Men's
People's Republic of China  Germany  South Korea  Hong Kong  Japan  Chinese Taipei  Singapore  Austria	Croatia  Greece  Sweden  Russia  Brazil  Nigeria  Canada  Australia

Game mode

Individual competition

The individual competition was held in the knockout system . Whoever lost a game was eliminated from the tournament and the winner moved on to the next round. Four sets of wins were played per match.

The individual players entered the tournament in different rounds. The placement in the seeding list of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is used for this. The following table shows the different phases.

placement	Started
1 - 16	Round 3
17 - 32	round 2
33-48	Round 1
49 and worse	Qualifying round

Team competition

A team consisted of three players from the same nation. To win an encounter, a team had to finish three games victoriously. An encounter consisted of at least two singles and one double. If no decision was made after these three games, one or two additional singles were played until one team had won three games. Each player on a team could only be used twice per match. In the case of five games per match, everyone was used twice; one player in two singles and the other in one single and the double. The system was chosen so that a player cannot collect all the points necessary to win. It was called the Beijing System .

The team competition initially consisted of a group stage. Afterwards, a knockout system was used. In each game, three sets of wins were played according to the same rules as in the individual competition.

In the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. Everyone played against everyone here. The first in the group made it to the semi-finals, in which they played for a place in the final and finally for the gold and silver medal. The runners-up play a separate semi-final. The two winners played with the losers of the semi-finals of the group winners in the knockout system for the bronze medal.

Results women

Medalist

The team from China won gold 3-0 in the final against Singapore. As with the men, bronze went to South Korea. In the individual, all medals went to the players from China.

team

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Guo Yue Zhang Yining Wang Nan
2	Singapore	Wang Yuegu Li Jia Wei Feng Tianwei
3	South Korea	Kim Kyung-ah Park Mi-young Dang Ye-seo

singles

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Zhang Yining
2	People's Republic of China	Wang Nan
3	People's Republic of China	Guo Yue

Team preliminary round

Group A space team S. N Balls Points 1.  People's Republic of China 3 0 317: 150 6th 2.  Austria 2 1 310: 311 5 3.  Croatia 1 2 289: 325 4th 4th  Dominican Republic 0 3 196: 326 3	13.8. China Croatia 3-0 Austria Dominican Republic 3-0 China Dominican Republic 3-0 Croatia Austria 0: 3 14.8. China Austria 3-0 Croatia Dominican Republic 3: 1
Group B space team S. N Balls Points 1.  Singapore 3 0 363: 245 6th 2.  United States 2 1 323: 273 5 3.  Netherlands 1 2 337: 353 4th 4th  Nigeria 0 3 178: 330 3	13.8. Singapore United States 3-0 Netherlands Nigeria 3-0 Nigeria Singapore 0: 3 United States Netherlands 3: 1 14.8. Netherlands Singapore 0: 3 Nigeria United States 0: 3
Group C space team S. N Balls Points 1.  Hong Kong 3 0 360: 269 6th 2.  Romania 2 1 398: 401 5 3.  Poland 1 2 435: 421 4th 4th  Germany 0 3 285: 387 3	13.8. Poland Hong Kong 0: 3 Romania Germany 3-0 14.8. Romania Hong Kong 0: 3 Germany Poland 1: 3 Hong Kong Germany 3-0 Poland Romania 2: 3
Group D space team S. N Balls Points 1.  South Korea 3 0 353: 266 6th 2.  Japan 2 1 430: 392 5 3.  Spain 1 2 384: 401 4th 4th  Australia 0 3 233: 341 3	13.8. South Korea Spain 3-0 Australia Japan 0: 3 14.8. South Korea Australia 3-0 Spain Japan 2: 3 South Korea Japan 3-0 Spain Australia 3-0

Team final round

Bronze Play-off Round 1

15.8.	Japan	Austria	3-0
	Romania	United States	1: 3

Semifinals

15.8.	People's Republic of China	Hong Kong	3-0
	South Korea	Singapore	2: 3

Bronze play-off round 2

16.8.	Hong Kong	Japan	2: 3
	United States	South Korea	0: 3

3rd place match

17.8.

South Korea

Japan

3-0

final

17.8.

People's Republic of China

Singapore

3-0

Single round 2

08/19	Game 1	Elizabeta Samara	Wiktoryja Paulovich	1: 4
	Game 2	Elke Schall	Melek Hu	2: 4
	Game 3	Zhu Fang	Li Jie	1: 4
	Game 4	Dang Ye-seo	Miao Miao	4: 1
08/20	Game 5	Nanthana Komwong	Haruna Fukuoka	0: 4
	Game 6	Krisztina Tóth	Rūta Paškauskienė	4: 3
	Game 7	Tatsiana Kostromina	Li Qian	4: 2
	Game 8	Tamara Boroš	Nikoleta Stefanova	4: 1
	Game 9	Dana Hadačová	Georgina Póta	3: 4
	Game 10	Daniela Dodean	Kim Jong	1: 4
	Game 11	Wenling Tan Monfardini	Li Qiangbing	2: 4
	Game 12	Shen Yanfei	Sandra Paović	4: 2
	Game 13	Stephanie Xu Sang	Wu Xue	0: 4
	Game 14	Gao Jun	Eva Ódorová	4: 2
	Game 15	Huang Yi-hua	Ni Xialian	1: 4
	Game 16	Lau Sui Fei	Xian Yifang	4: 1

Single round 3

08/20	Game 1	Zhang Yining	Wiktoryja Paulovich	4-0
	Game 2	Melek Hu	Ai Fukuhara	1: 4
	Game 3	Liu Jia	Li Jie	1: 4
	Game 4	Dang Ye-seo	Feng Tianwei	0: 4
	Game 5	Kim Kyung-ah	Haruna Fukuoka	4: 2
	Game 6	Krisztina Tóth	Wang Chen	1: 4
	Game 7	Lin Ling	Tatsiana Kostromina	4-0
	Game 8	Tamara Boroš	Li Jia Wei	1: 4
	Game 9	Wang Nan	Georgina Póta	4-0
	Game 10	Kim Jong	Park Mi-young	0: 4
	Game 11	Wu Jiaduo	Li Qiangbing	3: 4
	Game 12	Shen Yanfei	Tie Yana	1: 4
	Game 13	Wang Yuegu	Wu Xue	1: 4
	Game 14	Gao Jun	Sayaka Hirano	4: 1
	Game 15	Li Jiao	Ni Xialian	4: 1
	Game 16	Lau Sui Fei	Guo Yue	0: 4

Single round of 16

08/21	Game 1	Zhang Yining	Ai Fukuhara	4: 1
	Game 2	Li Jie	Feng Tianwei	1: 4
	Game 3	Kim Kyung-ah	Wang Chen	3: 4
	Game 4	Lin Ling	Li Jia Wei	3: 4
	Game 5	Wang Nan	Park Mi-young	4: 2
	Game 6	Li Qiangbing	Tie Yana	3: 4
	Game 7	Wu Xue	Gao Jun	4: 3
	Game 8	Li Jiao	Guo Yue	0: 4

Singles quarter-finals - final

Quarter-finals 08/21

Semi-finals 08/22

Final 08/22

Zhang Yining

4th

Feng Tianwei

1

Zhang Yining

4th

Li Jia Wei

1

Wang Chen

1

Li Jia Wei

4th

Zhang Yining

4th

Wang Nan

1

Wang Nan

4th

Tie Yana

1

Wang Nan

4th

3rd place match

Guo Yue

2

Wu Xue

0

Li Jia Wei

2

Guo Yue

4th

Guo Yue

4th

Results gentlemen

Medalist

team

The Chinese team with the then world number one Wang Hao and second Ma Lin as well as the individual world champion from 2007 Wang Liqin lived up to its role as favorites. She won all five matches 3-0 and won gold in front of Germany and South Korea.

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Wang Hao Ma Lin Wang Liqin
2	Germany	Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Christian Süß
3	South Korea	Ryu Seung-min Oh Sang-eun Yoon Jae-young

singles

For the first time, the Chinese men won all three medals in singles at the Olympics. Ma Lin , who was second in the world at the time , won against number one Wang Hao in the final with 4-1. Third was the 2007 world champion singles Wang Liqin .

space	country	player
1	People's Republic of China	Ma Lin
2	People's Republic of China	Wang Hao
3	People's Republic of China	Wang Liqin

Team preliminary round

Group A space team S. N Balls Points 1.  People's Republic of China 3 0 336: 240 6th 2.  Austria 2 1 287: 260 5 3.  Greece 1 2 258: 275 4th 4th  Australia 0 3 208: 314 3	13.8. Greece China 0: 3 Austria Australia 3-0 14.8. Australia China 0: 3 Austria Greece 3-0 China Austria 3-0 Greece Australia 3-0
Group B space team S. N Balls Points 1.  Germany 3 0 410: 331 6th 2.  Croatia 2 1 404: 360 5 3.  Singapore 1 2 372: 401 4th 4th  Canada 0 3 274: 368 3	13.8. Croatia Germany 0: 3 Singapore Canada 3-0 14.8. Germany Canada 3-0 Croatia Singapore 3: 1 Germany Singapore 3: 1 Croatia Canada 3-0
Group C space team S. N Balls Points 1.  South Korea 3 0 434: 345 6th 2.  Chinese Taipei 2 1 497: 459 5 3.  Sweden 1 2 373: 405 4th 4th  Brazil 0 3 305: 400 3	13.8. Sweden South Korea 0: 3 Chinese Taipei Brazil 3: 1 Brazil South Korea 1: 3 Sweden Chinese Taipei 2: 3 14.8. South Korea Chinese Taipei 3: 1 Brazil Sweden 0: 3
Group D space team S. N Balls Points 1.  Japan 3 0 368: 290 6th 2.  Hong Kong 2 1 428: 397 5 3.  Nigeria 1 2 388: 462 4th 4th  Russia 0 3 441: 476 3	13.8. Hong Kong Russia 3: 1 Nigeria Japan 0: 3 Hong Kong Nigeria 3-0 Japan Russia 3-0 14.8. Hong Kong Japan 0: 3 Nigeria Russia 3: 2

Team final round

Bronze Play-off Round 1

15.8.	Hong Kong	Chinese Taipei	3-0
	Austria	Croatia	3: 1

Semifinals

16.8.	Germany	Japan	3: 2
	People's Republic of China	South Korea	3-0

Bronze play-off round 2

17.8.	South Korea	Hong Kong	3: 1
	Austria	Japan	3: 1

3rd place match

18.8.

South Korea

Austria

3: 1

final

18.8.

Germany

People's Republic of China

0: 3

Single round 2

08/20	Game 1	Sharath Kamal Achanta	Chen Weixing	1: 4
	Game 2	Alexei Smirnov	Đoàn Kiến Quốc	4: 1
	Game 3	Lin Ju	Adrian Crișan	1: 4
	Game 4	Ko Lai Chak	Panagiotis Gionis	4: 3
	Game 5	Marcos Freitas	Yang Zi	2: 4
	Game 6	Zoran Primorac	Robert Gardos	4: 2
	Game 7	Aleksandar Karakašević	Jörgen Persson	2: 4
	Game 8	Christian Suess	János Jakab	4: 1
	Game 9	Lucjan Błaszczyk	Petr Korbel	4: 2
	Game 10	Yoon Jae-young	William Henzell	4: 3
	Game 11	Seiya Kishikawa	Tan Ruiwu	1: 4
	Game 12	Hey Zhiwen	Jang Song-man	2: 4
	Game 13	Kim Hyok-bong	Chiang Peng-Lung	4: 2
	Game 14	Jean-Michel Saive	Segun Toriola	2: 4
	Game 15	Damien Éloi	Jun Mizutani	3: 4
	Game 16	Bojan Tokič	Mihai Bobocica	4: 3

Single round 3

08/21	Game 1	Wang Hao	Chen Weixing	4-0
	Game 2	Alexei Smirnov	Yo Kan	1: 4
	Game 3	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Adrian Crișan	4: 3
	Game 4	Ko Lai Chak	Ryu Seung-min	4: 2
	Game 5	Chuang Chih-Yuan	Yang Zi	3: 4
	Game 6	Zoran Primorac	Michael Maze	4: 2
	Game 7	Cheung Yuk	Jörgen Persson	1: 4
	Game 8	Christian Suess	Vladimir Samsonov	0: 4
	Game 9	Wang Liqin	Lucjan Błaszczyk	4-0
	Game 10	Yoon Jae-young	Werner Schlager	3: 4
	Game 11	Gao Ning	Tan Ruiwu	0: 4
	Game 12	Jang Song-man	Li Ching	1: 4
	Game 13	Timo Boll	Kim Hyok-bong	4: 1
	Game 14	Segun Toriola	Oh Sang-eun	3: 4
	Game 15	Kalinikos Kreanga	Jun Mizutani	4: 1
	Game 16	Bojan Tokič	Ma Lin	1: 4

Single round of 16

Dimitrij Ovtcharov loses in the round of 16 against Ko Lai Chak

08/21	Game 1	Wang Hao	Yo Kan	4: 1
	Game 2	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Ko Lai Chak	1: 4
	Game 3	Yang Zi	Zoran Primorac	2: 4
	Game 4	Jörgen Persson	Vladimir Samsonov	4: 3
	Game 5	Wang Liqin	Werner Schlager	4-0
	Game 6	Tan Ruiwu	Li Ching	4: 2
	Game 7	Timo Boll	Oh Sang-eun	1: 4
	Game 8	Kalinikos Kreanga	Ma Lin	0: 4

Singles quarter-finals - final

Quarter-finals 08/22

Semi-finals 23.08.

Final 08/23

Wang Hao

4th

Ko Lai Chak

1

Wang Hao

4th

Jörgen Persson

1

Zoran Primorac

1

Jörgen Persson

4th

Wang Hao

1

Ma Lin

4th

Wang Liqin

4th

Tan Ruiwu

0

Wang Liqin

2

3rd place match

Ma Lin

4th

Oh Sang-eun

0

Jörgen Persson

0

Ma Lin

4th

Wang Liqin

4th

Table tennis medal table

Table tennis medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	People's Republic of China	4th	2	2	8th
2	Germany	-	1	-	1
	Singapore	-	1	-	1
4th	South Korea	-	-	2	2

useful information

• The age range of the participants ranged from 15 years for men ( Marcelo Aguirre , Paraguay) to 46 years ( He Zhiwen , Spain), for women from 16 years (Noha Yossry, Egypt) to 45 years ( Ni Xialian , Luxembourg).
• There was a dispute in advance when Jörgen Persson and Jean-Michel Saive finished 20th in the adjusted world rankings with equal points. The decision of the world association ITTF to prefer Persson, because he had an advantage of 0.25 points, was controversial. For the future, it was therefore determined that the previous world rankings will be used in the event of a tie.
• The Swede Matilda Ekholm qualified athletically for the participation, but was not allowed by the Swedish NOK due to a lack of success. The Tunisians Nesrine Ben Kahia and Safa Saidani , the New Zealander Karen Li and the Dutchman Trinko Keen had a similar experience .
• Table tennis player Li Jia Wei from Singapore carried the flag at the opening ceremony.

literature

• Rahul Nelson: How to qualify , tischtennis magazine , 2007/9 p. 27
• Rahul Nelson: Once to Hell and Back , mode of implementation of the European qualifying tournament, table tennis magazine , 2008/4 p. 32
• Detailed preliminary report, tischtennis magazine , 2008/8 pp. 8–21
• Detailed report, tischtennis magazine , 2008/9 pp. 8–39

Individual evidence

1. ^ ITTF: Players Qualified for the Olympic Games (PDF; 53 kB) . Retrieved August 22, 2008.
2. ↑ ITTF: Teams Qualified for the Olympic Games (PDF; 7 kB) . Retrieved August 22, 2008.
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/12 pp. 14–15
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/6 p. 25
5. ↑ Marius Widmer: Qualified Swedish Woman has to Watch Table Tennis from Home (accessed December 22, 2019)
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/7 p. 7