Olympic Table Tennis 2016

There were 64 players from 34 nations. However each nation is limited to just one mixed doubles pairing at Tokyo 2020.

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Take a look back at some of the key moments from Rio 2016s Table Tennis events.

Olympic table tennis 2016

. 1 day agoChina has dominated table tennis since Beijing 2008 winning every gold medal on offer and often the silver medal too. The Japanese duo of MIZUTANI JunITO Mima and Chinese Taipeis world number one. Kanak Jha a 2016 Olympian is joined by Nikhil Kumar and Xin Zhou on the mens side while Huijing Wang and Liu Juan join Zhang on the womens. The 2016 Olympic Games were held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil following on from an amazing 2012 Olympic Games which were held in London England.

The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nations smallest ever delegation to the Games in Olympic history since 1984A total of 205 athletes 103 men and 101 women competed in 24 sports. The 48-year-old faces Germany. Top seed and world number-one Novak Djokovic was defeated in the first round by Juan Martín del Potro with two. Featuring yet more Chinese dominance shock upsets and fantastic crowd support Rio 2016 has provided 12 days of Table Tennis at its best.

Nicknamed the Mozart of Table Tennis Waldner won the mens singles at the Barcelona 1992 Games. Official Table Tennis results from the Rio 2016 Olympics. They are ranked 30th and 31st in the world in their respective singles events. The mens singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Chinas Ma Long added mens singles and team gold at Rio 2016 to his team title gained at London four years earlier. Initially a total of 172 players were expected to compete in five events. 92 rows The Table Tennis competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was played at the Riocentro. In an all-China affair Ning Ding took home the 2016 Summer Olympic Games womens table tennis singles gold medal after defeating Xiaoxia Li.

The mens singles tennis tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro Brazil. The veteran upset Polands 28th seed Li Qian in a six-game struggle on Monday winning 11-7 11-6 5-11 10-12 11-4 11-4. South Korea officially the Republic of Korea competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Brazil from 5 to 21 August 2016This was the nations seventeenth appearance at the Olympics. The tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre from 6 to 14 August.

The only European Olympic gold medallist so far has been the legendary Swedish player Jan-Ove Waldner. The final was played on 14 August 2016. Table tennis squad features two marquee athletes. Expect the Chinese pair of XU XinLIU Shiwen to come to the fore.

The competition was played on a fast hardcourt surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players. Table tennis was once again one of the 41 sports which made up this iconic event having first joined the Olympic family in 1988 in Seoul South Korea. The event took place from 6 August to 11 August 2016 at Riocentro. Just a day after the womens singles table tennis medalists were decided in Rio de Janeiro the mens side of the Olympic competition finished.

Full list of gold silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. Singles and doubles for both men and women and the return of the mixed. 21-year-old Kanak Jha in mens singles and team and 24-year-old Lily Zhang in womens singles and team. August 18 2016 The 2016 Olympic Games Table Tennis competition has now been brought to an end.

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