Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. [1] Table tennis has appeared at the Summer Olympics on six previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Games in Seoul . [ 2 ]
For the first time there was a combination of group play and knockout stages in the Olympic badminton tournament, following its introduction at the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics in Singapore. All matches were the best of three games, with each game won by the first player to reach 21 points. If the score reached 20–20, the winner was the first ...
In the 2000 Summer Olympics, China swept the women's doubles tournament, winning all three medals, making it the only sweep in Olympic badminton history. [7] Indonesia also did this in the 1992 Olympics men's singles tournament, but there was no bronze medal match in that Games so the medal was shared with Danish player Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen.
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the inaugural staging of badminton, as a demonstration sport.Two decades later, after a successful exhibition at the 1988 games, the sport was officially introduced to the Olympics in 1989, and debuted in competition at the 1992 Games where 4 events were held, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, were held in London, United Kingdom, from 25 July 2012 to 12 August 2012. Approximately 10,500 athletes participated in 302 events in 26 sports. [1] Athletes from the United States won the most gold medals, with 46, and the most overall, with 103.
The badminton men's singles tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place from 28 July to 5 August at Wembley Arena. The draw was held on 23 July 2012. [1] [2] Forty players from 34 nations competed in the event. China's Lin Dan won the gold medal, defeating Lee Chong Wei from Malaysia in the final. Chen Long, also of China, won the ...
Kanak Jha secured the U.S. its best Olympic run in men's table tennis by reaching the last 16 at the Paris Games on Wednesday, while the shock of the tournament came when world No. 1 Wang Chuqin ...
The men's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Thursday 2 August 2012 at ExCeL London. [1] The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists.