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Table tennis competition has been in the Commonwealth Games since 2002, with singles and doubles events for both men and women. [1] Wheelchair play is an optional event for elite athletes with a disability (EAD) since the inclusion of Para-Sports in 2002.
Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988, [3] with event categories in both men's and women's singles, and men's and women's teams since replacing doubles in 2008. Table tennis is governed by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded in 1926, and specifies the official rules in the ITTF handbook. [ 4 ]
The Czech Table Tennis Association (Czech: Česká asociace stolního tenisu) is the National Sporting Organisation for the Sport of Table Tennis in the Czech Republic and is affiliated with the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) which oversees the international governance and development of Table Tennis and the ETTU (European Table Tennis Union) which oversees the sport development ...
Sint-Gillis-Waas (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt ˌxɪlɪs ˈʋaːs]; [a] French: Saint-Gilles-Waes) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of De Klinge, Meerdonk , Sint-Gillis-Waas proper and Sint-Pauwels . On 1 January 2018, Sint-Gillis-Waas had a total population of 19,273.
Laurens Devos (born 15 August 2000) is a Belgian table tennis player who was the Paralympic champion in men's singles class 9. He has also won four European titles and most recently, a world title for his country.
Judith Yvonne Williams (25 February 1944 – 16 August 2024) [1] was a British international table tennis player from England [2] who also played in the Netherlands.She played in several World Table Tennis Championships and Veterans World Championships and won the English National Table Tennis Championships in 1969.
After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, she fled to Sweden to seek political asylum, together with her husband and coach Béla Simon. [2] [3] They were accepted in the Netherlands and then in West Germany; thus Simon competed for the Netherlands in 1959–1960 and for West Germany since 1962.
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 27th edition of the men's team championship. [1] [2]China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–1 in the final.