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Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for men and women. [1] [2] Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 66 medals in 42 events, including 37 out of a possible 42 gold medals, and only failing to win at least one medal in one event, the inaugural men's singles event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Chinese Li Ju, Olympic doubles champion and singles runner-up in 2000. Table tennis is among the sports contested at the Summer Olympic Games.It was introduced at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where singles and doubles tournaments were held for both genders. [1]
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 phrase "Table Tennis" was created because the name "Ping Pong" had already been trademarked by Parker Brothers. [7] Though the legal name of the USATT remains the "United States Table Tennis Association, Inc.", the non-profit corporation adopted "USA Table Tennis" as their d/b/a name effective 1994. [8]
Ma Long became the Chinese athlete with the most gold medals in the history of the Olympics when he helped China win the men's table tennis team final at the Paris Games on Friday. China defeated ...
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 ]
Zeng, now 58, laughed Saturday afternoon when asked if she could have ever imagined playing in the Olympics four years ago when she started playing table tennis again.
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.