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Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Field	Value
event	Table tennis
games	2012 Summer
image	Table Tennis, London 2012.png
image_size	150px
venue	ExCeL London
dates	28 July - 8 August 2012
competitors	174
nations	57
prev	2008
next	2016

Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 8 August 2012 at ExCeL London. 174 athletes, 86 men and 88 women, competed in four events. Table tennis has appeared at the Summer Olympics on six previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Games in Seoul. In addition to men's and women's singles, the team events were staged for the second time since replacing doubles events at the 2008 Beijing Games. China was the defending champion in each of the Olympic events having won all 4 gold medals in 2008.

Qualification

Main article: Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As hosts Great Britain qualified six athletes automatically; a team of three men, one of whom competed in the singles, and a team of three women, one of whom competed in the singles.

The top 28 male and top 28 female players on the International Table Tennis Federation's ranking list immediately after the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships, which finished on 15 May 2011 in the Netherlands, were qualified for the singles events at Games. No nation can have more than two players per gender in the singles events at the Games, so some players below 28th place were given a qualification berth based on their rankings.

Ten continental qualification tournaments then were used to assign a total of 40 places between 28 June 2011 and 22 April 2012. A final qualification tournament took place on 12 May 2012 to assign a further two places per gender. One invitational place per gender was allocated by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

Entries for the team events were decided after the final qualification tournament ended on 13 May 2012. The highest-ranked nation at the 2012 World Team Championships from each of the six continents earned the right to enter as long as three of its players had met the qualification criteria for the singles event. Except for the host British team, the qualification of the other 15 NOCs was based on the number of the qualified players and the ranking of the 2012 World Team Championships.

Competition schedule

Event↓/Date →		Sat 28		Sun 29		Mon 30		colspan=2	Tue 31		Wed 1		colspan=2	Thu 2		Fri 3		Sat 4		Sun 5		Mon 6		Tue 7		Wed 8
Men's singles
Men's team
Women's singles
Women's team

Participating nations

A total of 174 athletes (86 men and 88 women), representing 57 NOCs, competed in four events.

Medal summary

Medal table

Events

All events at the Games took the form of a knockout competition.

Women's team
CHN
Ding Ning
Li Xiaoxia
Guo Yue	JPN
Ai Fukuhara
Sayaka Hirano
Kasumi Ishikawa	SIN
Li Jiawei
Feng Tianwei
Wang Yuegu

References

"Olympic Table Tennis Press Kit". ITTF.
(11 February 2011). "London 2012 Olympics: table tennis guide". The Telegraph.
(23 June 2011). "Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad". ITTF.
(4 March 2011). "Team GB take table tennis places for 2012 Olympics". BBC Sport.
(18 January 2011). "London 2012 Olympics qualifying: Table Tennis". BBC Sport.
"Athlete count for Table Tennis". Olympedia.

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