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The table tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. [1] [2] A total of 175 table tennis players, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions.
Diagram of a table tennis table showing the official dimensions. The table is 2.74 m (9.0 ft) long, 1.525 m (5.0 ft) wide, and 76 cm (2.5 ft) high with any continuous material so long as the table yields a uniform bounce of about 23 cm (9.1 in) when a standard ball is dropped onto it from a height of 30 cm (11.8 in), or about 77%.
The fact that the inner circle is drawn with a solid line instead of dashed identifies this view as the front view, not the rear view. The side view is an isosceles trapezoid . In first-angle projection , the front view is pushed back to the rear wall, and the right side view is pushed to the left wall, so the first-angle symbol shows the ...
Since there were more than 64 athletes, seeded players 1 to 32 were drawn directly to the top position in round of 64. Seeded players 33 to 48 were drawn in the remaining position of round of 64. [1] [2] The draw was held on 24 July 2024. [3] [4]
China has been the most successful nation in Olympic table tennis, winning 66 medals (37 gold, 21 silver, and 8 bronze). Since 1992, Chinese players have won at least one medal in every event. At the 2008 Games, China achieved an unprecedented medal sweep in both the men's and women's singles tournaments, [ 6 ] and won both team tournaments.
Table tennis was a sport at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (postponed to 2021 [1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and featured 173 table tennis players. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on eight previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics.
The single most distinctive style in table tennis is the chopper. The chopper is defensive in the sense that, while other styles look to attack and gain initiative, the chopper gives up the initiative, using the chop to return an attack with backspin and/or sidespin. The chopper returns repeated attacks with slow, floating backspin chops ...
1. Sun Yingsha (final, silver medalist) 2. Chen Meng (champion, gold medalist) 3. Hina Hayata (semifinals, bronze medalist) 4. Shin Yu-bin (semifinals, fourth place) 5. Bernadette Szőcs (round of 16) 6. Adriana Díaz (round of 16) 7. Cheng I-ching (quarterfinals) 8. Miu Hirano (quarterfinals) 9. Jeon Ji-hee (first round) 10. Yang Xiaoxin (first round) 11. Nina Mittelham (second round) 12 ...