Olympic Summer Games 2012 / table tennis

Table tennis at the 2012 Olympics
information
venue	London
Competition venue	ExCeL Exhibition Center
Nations	57
Athletes	174 (86 , 88 )
date	July 28 - August 8, 2012
decisions	4th
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the British capital, London , four table tennis competitions were held in the ExCeL Exhibition Center from July 28th to August 8th, an individual and a team competition for women and men.

The competition program was identical to that of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . However, the world association ITTF had enforced that for the first time only two athletes per country were allowed to start in the individual. So the Chinese dominance should be restricted. Chinese athletes won all six possible individual medals in 2008. The team competitions were held this time in the knockout system .

qualification

Qualification criteria

174 athletes took part, including 88 women and 86 men. Two quota places for the individual competitions were reserved for the host NOK , and the ITTF issued another two quota places by invitation after qualifying. For women and men, 16 teams each started with three athletes. 72 athletes competed individually, but no more than three from one country. The following qualification criteria applied in parallel to women and men.

The 28 best athletes in the world rankings, which was published after the 2011 World Cup, qualified individually . 40 additional starting places were awarded through continental tournaments (eleven in Asia and Europe, six in Latin America and Africa and three in North America and Oceania). The last two starting places were awarded to the two best athletes of a final international qualifying tournament. The best team on each continent qualified for the team competition at the 2012 World Team Championship . A team of the host is also qualified. The last nine places were awarded to countries in which three athletes had met the qualification criteria for a single start. If this was the case for more than nine countries, the nine best-placed teams in the 2012 World Cup were taken into account.

Qualified athletes

singles

Qualified athletes
Qualification criterion / qualification competition	date	venue	Number of starting places to be allocated	Qualifier	Qualifier
World ranking	Deadline May 15, 2011		28	Li Xiaoxia Guo Yan Feng Tianwei Kasumi Ishikawa Ai Fukuhara Kim Kyung-ah Wang Yuegu Tie Yana Wu Jiaduo Li Jiao Jiang Huajun Shen Yanfei Park Mi-young Li Jie Huang Yi-hua Wiktoryja Paulowitsch Melek Hu Li Qian Krisztina Tóta Daniela Dodean Kim J Elizabeta Samara Li Xue Ni Xialian Kristin Silbereisen Liu Jia Iveta Vacenovská	Wang Hao Timo Boll Zhang Jike Jun Mizutani Vladimir Samsonov Joo Se-hyuk Oh Sang-eun Chuang Chih-Yuan Dimitrij Ovtcharov Gao Ning Tang Peng Michael Maze Alexei Smirnov Adrien Mattenet Werner Schlager Jiang Tianyi Kalinikos Kreanga Seiya Kishikawa Jorgen Persson Chen Weixing Adrian Crisan Jean- Michel Saive Panagiotis Gionis Zoran Primorac Pär Gerell Yang Zi Alexander Schibajew Bojan Tokič
West Asian qualifying competition	27.-30. June 2011	Dubai	1	-	Ibrahem Al-Hasan
All Africa Games	5th - 15th September 2011	Maputo	6th	Offiong Edem Olufunke Oshonaike Han Xing Nadeen El-Dawlatly Dina Meshref Sarah Manffou	Omar Assar El-Sayed Lashin Quadri Aruna Segun Toriola Suraju Saka Saheed Idowu
Pan American Games	14.-30. October 2011	Guadalajara	1	Zhang Mo	Liu Song
West Asian qualifying competition	19. – 20. October 2011	Amma	1	Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian	-
Central Asian qualifying competition	9-11 January 2012	Tehran	1	Neda Shahsavari	Noshad Alamian
Southeast Asian qualifying competition	3rd to 5th February 2012	Bangkok	1	Li Jia Wei	Zhan Jian
Latin American qualifying competition	4th-6th March 2012	Rio de Janeiro	5/6	Lígia Silva Paula Medina Yadira Silva Caroline Kumahara Fabiola Ramos Berta Rodríguez	Lin Ju Gustavo Tsuboi Marcelo Aguirre Hugo Hoyama Andy Pereira
Oceanic qualifying competition	5th-8th March 2012	Sydney	3	Jian Fang Lay Miao Miao Anolyn Lulu	William Henzell Justin Han Yoshua Shing
European qualifying competition	11-15 April 2012	Luxembourg	11	Irene Ivancan Natalia Partyka Mie Skov Xian Yifang Marharyta Pessozka Cornelia Molnar Tian Yuan Aljaksandra Prywalawa Li Qiangbing Amelie Solja Tan Wenling	Marcos Freitas Robert Gardos João Monteiro Bastian Steger Daniel Zwickl Aleksandar Karakašević Marko Jevtović He Zhiwen Kirill Skatschkow Jens Lundqvist Ádám Pattantyús
North American qualifying competition	20.-22. April 2012	Cary	2/3	Ariel Hsing Lily Zhang	André Ho Pierre-Luc Hinse Timothy Wang
Asian qualifying competition	19. – 22. April 2012	Hong Kong	8th	Guo Yue Ri Myong-sun Seok Ha-jung Sayaka Hirano Chen Szu-yu Nanthana Komwong Ri Mi-gyong Ankita Das	Koki Niwa Leung Chu Yan Ryu Seung-min Ma Long Kim Song-nam Kim Hyok-bong Jang Song-man Soumyajit Ghosh
International qualification competition	10-13 May 2012	Doha	8/10	Dana Hadačová Sara Ramírez Galia Dvorak Anna Tichomirowa Jana Noskowa Lee Ho Ching Huang Lei Mendes Tetjana Bilenko	Tiago Apolónia Carlos Machado Oleksandr Diduch Wang Zeng Yi Andrej Gaćina Bora Vang Allan Bentsen Mihai Bobocica Jaroslaw Schmudenko Matīss Burģis
Invitation by ITTF	May 30, 2012		1	Yasmin Hassan Farah	Komi Agbetoglo
Invitation by IOC	July 12, 2012		1	Aia Mohamed
host	May 30, 2012		1	Joanna Parker	Paul Drinkhall
additionally qualified athletes for the team competition	May 30, 2012		8/6	Katarzyna Grzybowska Erica Wu Kelly Sibley Na Liu Jelena Timina Raghd Magdy Vivian Tan Gui Lin	Wang Zhen Liam Pitchford Andrew Baggaley Ahmed Ali Saleh Robert Frank Thiago Monteiro

team

Qualified teams
qualification	Starting places	Women	Men
host	1	Great Britain	Great Britain
Africa	1	Egypt	Egypt
Asia	1	People's Republic of China	People's Republic of China
Australia	1	Australia	Australia
Europe	1	Germany	Germany
North America	1	United States	Canada
South America	1	Brazil	Brazil
Best teams of the 2012 World Cup	9	Singapore South Korea Hong Kong Japan North Korea Austria Spain Netherlands Poland	South Korea Japan Austria Sweden Singapore Hong Kong Portugal North Korea Russia

Participants to NOK

Qualified individual players and teams to NOK
competition	Women		Men		Total athletes
	singles	team	singles	team
Egypt	3	1	3	1	6th
Argentina			1		1
Australia	3	1	3	1	6th
Belgium			1		1
Brazil	3	1	3	1	6th
Chile	1				1
China	3	1	3	1	6th
Denmark	1		2		3
Germany	3	1	3	1	6th
Dominican Rep.			1		1
Djibouti	1				1
France	2		1		3
Greece			2		2
Great Britain	3	1	3	1	6th
Hong Kong	3	1	3	1	6th
India	1		1		2
Iran	1		1		2
Italy	1		1		2
Japan	3	1	3	1	6th
Cameroon	1				1
Canada	1		3	1	4th
Qatar	1				1
Colombia	1				1
Croatia	2		2		4th
Cuba			1		1
Kuwait			1		1
Lebanon	1				1
Latvia			1		1
Luxembourg	1				1
Mexico	1				1
Netherlands	3	1			3
Nigeria	2		2		4th
North Korea	3	1	3	1	6th
Austria	3	1	3	1	6th
Paraguay			1		1
Poland	3	1	1		4th
Portugal	1		3	1	4th
Republic of China	2		1		3
Republic of the Congo	1		2		3
Romania	2		1		3
Russia	2		3	1	5
Sweden	1		3	1	4th
Serbia			2		2
Singapore	3	1	3	1	6th
Slovenia			1		1
Spain	3	1	2		5
South Korea	3	1	3	1	6th
Thailand	1				1
Togo			1		1
Czech Republic	2				2
Turkey	1		1		2
Ukraine	1		2		3
Hungary	2		2		4th
United States	3	1	1		4th
Vanuatu	1		1		2
Venezuela	1				1
Belarus	2		1		3
Total starting places	87	16	86	16	173

In the oceanic qualifying competition, Li Chunli and Phillip Xiao from New Zealand were able to qualify first . After the starting places were given back to the ITTF, the two qualifiers from Vanuatu moved up. Matilda Ekholm from Sweden did qualify for participation, but was not allowed by the National Olympic Committee of Sweden because they saw no prospect that Ekholm could reach a place in the top eight. The Ukrainian Tetjana Bilenko took her place.

Competitions and schedule

ExCeL Exhibition Center - the venue for table tennis competitions

Competitions and schedule table tennis
Competitions	July August
Women	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.
singles
team
Men	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.
singles
team

Results gentlemen

Medalist

team

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Wang Hao , Zhang Jike , Ma Long
2	COR	Oh Sang-Eun , Joo Se-hyuk , Ryu Seung-min
3	GER	Timo Boll , Dimitrij Ovtcharov , Bastian Steger

singles

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Zhang Jike
2	CHN	Wang Hao
3	GER	Dimitrij Ovtcharov

Single round 1

07/28	Table 1	Carlos Machado	Quadri Aruna	2: 4
	Table 4	Ádám Pattantyús	William Henzell	1: 4
	Table 3	Matīss Burģis	Pierre-Luc Hinse	4: 3
	Table 2	Gustavo Tsuboi	Soumyajit Gosh	2: 4
	Table 2	Paul Drinkhall	Ibrahem Al-Hasan	4-0
	Table 1	Oleksandr Diduch	Marcelo Aguirre	4: 3
	Table 3	Jean-Michel Saive	Marko Jevtović	4: 1
	Table 4	Par Gerell	El-Sayed Lashin	3: 4
	Table 4	Noshad Alamian	Justin Han	4-0
	Table 2	Wang Zengyi	Hugo Hoyama	4: 3
	Table 1	Jörgen Persson	Segun Toriola	4: 1
	Table 3	Allan Bentsen	Daniel Zwickl	1: 4
	Table 3	Lin Ju	Kim Song-nam	4: 3
	Table 1	Jaroslaw Schmudenko	Omar Assar	1: 4
	Table 2	Liu Song	Suraju Saka	4-0
	Table 4	Mihai Bobocica	Andy Pereira	4-0

Single round 2

07/29	Table 3	Quadri Aruna	Bora Vang	2: 4
	Table 1	João Monteiro	William Henzell	2: 4
	Table 2	Matīss Burģis	Alexei Smirnov	0: 4
	Table 4	Kim Hyok-bong	Soumyajit Gosh	4: 1
	Table 1	Paul Drinkhall	Yang Zi	4: 1
	Table 4	Chen Weixing	Oleksandr Diduch	4-0
	Table 2	Jean-Michel Saive	Kalinikos Kreanga	1: 4
	Table 3	Zoran Primorac	El-Sayed Lashin	3: 4
	Table 3	Noshad Alamian	Tang Peng	4: 3
	Table 4	Hey Zhiwen	Wang Zengyi	4: 3
	Table 1	Jörgen Persson	Andrej Gaćina	0: 4
	Table 2	Aleksandar Karakašević	Daniel Zwickl	1: 4
	Table 3	Lin Ju	Marcos Freitas	0: 4
	Table 2	Panagiotis Gionis	Omar Assar	4-0
	Table 4	Liu Song	Bojan Tokič	3: 4
	Table 1	Werner Schlager	Mihai Bobocica	4: 2

Single round 3

07/29	Table 1	Werner Schlager	Wang Hao	1: 4
07/30	Table 1	Zhang Jike	Bora Vang	4-0
	Table 2	William Henzell	Vladimir Samsonov	3: 4
	Table 4	Jiang Tianyi	Alexei Smirnov	4: 1
	Table 3	Kim Hyok-bong	Joo Se-hyuk	4: 2
	Table 1	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Paul Drinkhall	4-0
	Table 4	Chen Weixing	Adrien Mattenet	4-0
	Table 2	Michael Maze	Kalinikos Kreanga	4: 1
	Table 3	El-Sayed Lashin	Jun Mizutani	1: 4
	Table 1	Timo Boll	Noshad Alamian	4-0
	Table 4	Hey Zhiwen	Adrian Crișan	2: 4
	Table 2	Alexander Shibayev	Andrej Gaćina	3: 4
	Table 3	Chuang Chih-Yuan	Daniel Zwickl	4-0
	Table 4	Oh Sang Eun	Marcos Freitas	4-0
	Table 2	Panagiotis Gionis	Seiya Kishikawa	3: 4
	Table 3	Gao Ning	Bojan Tokič	4-0

Single round of 16

07/30	Table 1	Zhang Jike	Vladimir Samsonov	4: 3
	Table 4	Jiang Tianyi	Kim Hyok-bong	4: 3
	Table 3	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Chen Weixing	4-0
	Table 2	Michael Maze	Jun Mizutani	4-0
	Table 2	Timo Boll	Adrian Crișan	1: 4
	Table 4	Andrej Gaćina	Chuang Chih-Yuan	2: 4
	Table 1	Oh Sang Eun	Seiya Kishikawa	1: 4
	Table 3	Gao Ning	Wang Hao	1: 4

Singles quarter-finals - final

Quarterfinals 07/31 / 08/01

Semi-finals 02.08.

Final 08/02

Zhang Jike

4th

Jiang Tianyi

1

Zhang Jike

4th

Dimitrij Ovtcharov

1

Dimitrij Ovtcharov

4th

Michael Maze

3

Zhang Jike

4th

Wang Hao

1

Adrian Crișan

0

Chuang Chih-Yuan

4th

Chuang Chih-Yuan

1

3rd place match

Wang Hao

4th

Seiya Kishikawa

0

Dimitrij Ovtcharov

4th

Wang Hao

4th

Chuang Chih-Yuan

2

Team round 1

04.08.	table	China	Russia	3: 1
	table	Australia	Singapore	0: 3
	table	Austria	Egypt	3-0
	table	Sweden	Germany	1: 3
	table	Japan	Canada	3-0
	table	Brazil	Hong Kong	0: 3
	table	Portugal	Great Britain	3-0
	table	North Korea	South Korea	1: 3

Team quarter-finals - final

	Quarter-finals 05.08.					Semi-finals 06.08.					Final 08.08.
		China	3
		Singapore	0
							China	3
							Germany	1
		Austria	0
		Germany	3
												China	3
												South Korea	0
		Japan	2
		Hong Kong	3
							Hong Kong	0
											3rd place match
							South Korea	3
		Portugal	2									Hong Kong	1
		South Korea	3									Germany	3

Results women

Medalist

team

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Li Xiaoxia , Ding Ning , Guo Yue
2	JPN	Ai Fukuhara , Kasumi Ishikawa , Sayaka Hirano
3	SIN	Feng Tianwei , Li Jia Wei , Wang Yuegu

singles

space	country	athlete
1	CHN	Li Xiaoxia
2	CHN	Ding Ning
3	SIN	Feng Tianwei

Single round 1

07/28	Table 3	Tetjana Bilenko	Paula Medina	4: 1
	Table 1	Cornelia Molnar	Lily Zhang	4-0
	Table 4	Mie Skov	Nadeen El-Dawlatly	4-0
	Table 3	Tan Wenglin	Olufunke Oshonaike	4-0
	Table 2	Krisztina Tóth	Fabiola Ramos	4: 3
	Table 2	Nanthana Komwong	Lei Huang Mendes	4: 3
	Table 2	Jian Fang Lay	Lígia Silva	4: 1
	Table 1	Aljaksandra Prywalawa	Han Xing	4: 2
	Table 4	Melek Hu	Zhang Mo	3: 4
	Table 4	Dana Hadačová	Miao Miao	2: 4
	Table 1	Joanna Parker	Caroline Kumahara	4-0
	Table 4	Xian Yifang	Sarah Hanffou	4: 1
	Table 1	Ariel Hsing	Yadira Silva	4-0
	Table 2	Jana Noskowa	Dina Meshref	3: 4
	Table 3	Sara Ramirez	Ankita Das	4: 1
	Table 3	Tian Yuan	Berta Rodríguez	4-0

Single round 2

07/28	Table 1	Tetjana Bilenko	Daniela Dodean	3: 4
	Table 2	Kim Jong	Cornelia Molnar	4: 1
	Table 1	Mie Skov	Natalia Partyka	0: 4
	Table 2	Tan Wenglin	Anna Tikhomirova	3: 4
	Table 4	Krisztina Tóth	Chen Szu-yu	3: 4
	Table 3	Iveta Vacenovská	Nanthana Komwong	4: 1
07/29	Table 3	Jian Fang Lay	Li Xue	3: 4
07/28	Table 3	Liu Jia	Aljaksandra Prywalawa	4: 2
07/29	Table 4	Zhang Mo	Li Qiangbing	1: 4
07/28	Table 4	Huang Yi-hua	Miao Miao	4-0
08/29	Table 1	Joanna Parker	Kristin Silbereisen	1: 4
	Table 2	Xian Yifang	Ri Myong-sun	4: 2
	Table 4	Ni Xialian	Ariel Hsing	2: 4
	Table 1	Elizabeta Samara	Dina Meshref	4: 1
07/28	Table 2	Margaryta Persotska	Sara Ramirez	4: 1
07/29	Table 3	Tian Yuan	Georgina Póta	1: 4

Single round 3

07/29	Table 3	Ding Ning	Daniela Dodean	4-0
	Table 2	Kim Jong	Jiang Huajun	2: 4
	Table 4	Li Jie	Natalia Partyka	4: 2
	Table 1	Anna Tikhomirova	Ai Fukuhara	0: 4
	Table 2	Feng Tianwei	Chen Szu-yu	4: 1
	Table 3	Iveta Vacenovská	Wu Jiaduo	2: 4
	Table 4	Shen Yanfei	Li Xue	4-0
	Table 3	Liu Jia	Kim Kyung-ah	1: 4
	Table 2	Kasumi Ishikawa	Li Qiangbing	4: 2
	Table 3	Huang Yi-hua	Li Qian	1: 4
	Table 1	Wiktoryja Paulovich	Kristin Silbereisen	4: 2
	Table 4	Xian Yifang	Wang Yuegu	0: 4
	Table 2	Ariel Hsing	Li Xiaoxia	2: 4
	Table 4	Tie Yana	Elizabeta Samara	2: 4
	Table 1	Margaryta Persotska	Li Jiao	0: 4
	Table 3	Park Mi-young	Georgina Póta	4: 1

Single round 4

07/30	Table 4	Ding Ning	Jiang Huajun	4: 1
	Table 2	Li Jie	Ai Fukuhara	3: 4
	Table 1	Feng Tianwei	Wu Jiaduo	4: 2
	Table 3	Shen Yanfei	Kim Kyung-ah	1: 4
	Table 4	Kasumi Ishikawa	Li Qian	4: 1
	Table 2	Wiktoryja Paulovich	Wang Yuegu	3: 4
	Table 3	Elizabeta Samara	Li Jiao	2: 4
	Table 1	Park Mi-young	Li Xiaoxia	1: 4

Singles quarter-finals - final

Quarterfinals 07/31

Semi-finals 07/31

Final 08/01

Ding Ning

4th

Ai Fukuhara

0

Ding Ning

4th

Feng Tianwei

2

Feng Tianwei

4th

Kim Kyung-ah

2

Ding Ning

1

Li Xiaoxia

4th

Kasumi Ishikawa

4th

Wang Yuegu

1

Kasumi Ishikawa

1

3rd place match

Li Xiaoxia

4th

Li Jiao

0

Feng Tianwei

4th

Li Xiaoxia

4th

Kasumi Ishikawa

0

Team round 1

03.08.	Table 2	China	Spain	3-0
	Table 3	Egypt	Netherlands	0: 3
	Table 2	Hong Kong	Austria	3: 1
	Table 4	Brazil	South Korea	0: 3
	Table 3	Singapore	Poland	3: 1
	Table 1	Great Britain	North Korea	0: 3
	Table 4	Germany	Australia	3-0
	Table 1	United States	Japan	0: 3

Team quarter-finals - final

	Quarter-finals 04.08.					Semi-finals 05.08. / 06.08.					Final 08/07
		China	3
		Netherlands	0
							China	3
							South Korea	0
		Hong Kong	0
		South Korea	3
												China	3
												Japan	0
		Singapore	3
		North Korea	0
							Singapore	0
											3rd place match
							Japan	3
		Germany	0									South Korea	0
		Japan	3									Singapore	3

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	People's Republic of China	4th	2	-	6th
2	Japan	-	1	-	1
2	South Korea	-	1	-	1
4th	Germany	-	-	2	2
4th	Singapore	-	-	2	2
Total		4th	4th	4th	12

useful information

• Table tennis player Feng Tianwei from Singapore carried the flag at the opening ceremony.
• The German Michael Zwipp was head referee.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "New Olympic Regulation" website of the ITTF. Retrieved November 2, 2010. (English).
2. ↑ "Qualification Table Tennis London 2012" (PDF; 52 kB) ITTF website. Retrieved November 2, 2010. (English).
3. ↑ PLAYERS QUALIFIED FOR THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES - WOMEN. (PDF; 116 kB) Accessed April 16, 2012 (English). 
4. ↑ PLAYERS QUALIFIED FOR THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES - MEN. (PDF; 113 kB) Retrieved on April 16, 2012 (English). 
5. ↑ Detailed tournament report in the magazine tischtennis , 2012/5 pp. 8–19
6. ^ Qualifiers for Team Events at London 2012 Olympic Games Announced. Retrieved May 15, 2012 . 
7. ↑ The Matilda Ekholm case ... (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 14, 2012 ; Retrieved June 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Table Tennis Schedule. Retrieved September 4, 2011 . 
9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/7 p. 7
10. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/1 p. 30

Web links

Commons : 2012 Summer Olympics / Table tennis  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• List of participants (accessed on October 9, 2013; PDF; 112 kB)

literature

• Rahul Nelson: It's finally going , tischtennis magazine , 2012/7 pp. 8–19
• Detailed follow-up report, tischtennis magazine , 2012/8 pp. 8–31