2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships

2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Venue	Busan Exhibition and Convention Center [1]
Location	Busan, South Korea
Dates	16–25 February
Nations	47 (40 men's teams, 40 women's teams)
Champions
Men	China
Women	China
←  2022

The 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Busan, South Korea from 16 to 25 February 2024. ^[2] Quarterfinalists of the event qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. ^{[3] [4]}

Bid

Busan was selected as the first South Korean city to host World Table Tennis Championships in 2018. ^[5] The 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships were originally scheduled to be held in Busan from 22 to 29 March 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, initially until 27 September to 4 October 2020, then until 28 February to 7 March 2021. However, on 22 December it was announced that the event had been cancelled. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

In May 2021, Busan launched another bid for the 2024 World Championships, and won the bid in November 2021. ^{[10] [1]}

Qualification

Number of teams eligible to compete for the trophy in each team event is 40.

Continental Stage – 33 teams will qualify from the Continental Stage. The continental quota allocation is the following: 4 for Africa, 6 for the Americas, 10 for Asia, 11 for Europe, and 2 for Oceania. Numbers are according to the "2020 BoD Proposition 28".

China News Service video about the Chinese team performance.

Host nation – spot is guaranteed. If the host nation is already qualified through the Continental Stage, the host quota will be reallocated to the ITTF WTR Oct 2023.

Intercontinental Stage – As per the decision of the ITTF Council, in Bangkok on 23 August 2023, no Intercontinental Stage will be held in 2023. Instead, the remaining six (6) places shall be allocated as follows:

Five (5) places are transferred to the five continents as follows: Africa 1, the Americas 1, Asia 1, Europe 1, and Oceania 1; with the final allocation as per qualifying event or Team World Ranking (TWR) to be confirmed by each continental federation.

The remaining one (1) place will go to the highest-ranked not-yet-qualified team on the ITTF WTR November 2023. ^[11]

Qualification	Men's team	Women's team
Host nation	South Korea	South Korea
Africa (5) 2023 African Championships (4) and world team ranking (1)	Egypt   Nigeria   Algeria   Tunisia   Madagascar	Egypt   Nigeria   Algeria   Tunisia   Mauritius
Americas (7) 2023 Pan American Championships (4) and world team ranking (3)	Brazil   Canada   Chile   Puerto Rico   United States   Argentina   Cuba	United States   Brazil   Chile   Puerto Rico   Canada   Mexico   Argentina
Asia (11) 2023 Asian Championships (10) and world team ranking (1)	China   Chinese Taipei   India   Japan   Iran   Singapore   Kazakhstan   Hong Kong   Thailand   Malaysia   Saudi Arabia	China   Hong Kong   Japan   Thailand   India   Singapore   Kazakhstan   Iran   Uzbekistan   Chinese Taipei   Malaysia
Europe (12) 2023 European Championships (8) and world team ranking (4)	Sweden   Germany   France   Portugal   Hungary   Croatia   Belgium   Denmark   Slovenia   England   Poland   Slovakia	Germany   Romania   France   Portugal   Italy   Spain   Sweden   Slovakia   Hungary   Luxembourg   Poland   Austria
Oceania (3) 2023 Oceanian Championships (2) and world team ranking (1)	Australia   New Zealand   Tahiti	Australia   New Zealand   Tahiti
Intercontinental quota (1) world team ranking	Romania	Czech Republic
Reallocation	Austria   Czech Republic   Serbia	Cuba   Croatia   South Africa   Serbia   Ukraine

Schedule

The draw took place on 16 January 2024. ^[12]

Event↓/Date →	Fri 16	Sat 17	Sun 18	Mon 19	Tue 20	Wed 21		Thu 22	Fri 23	Sat 24	Sun 25
Men's team	Group					1/16 F	1/8 F	QF		SF	F
Women's team	Group					1/16 F	1/8 F	QF	SF	F

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	France	0	1	1	2
3	Japan	0	1	0	1
4	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	South Korea*	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	4	8

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team details	China Fan Zhendong Wang Chuqin Ma Long Liang Jingkun Lin Gaoyuan	France Félix Lebrun Alexis Lebrun Simon Gauzy Jules Rolland Lilian Bardet	South Korea Jang Woo-jin Lim Jong-hoon Lee Sang-su An Jae-hyun Park Gyu-hyeon
			Chinese Taipei Lin Yun-ju Kao Cheng-jui Chuang Chih-yuan Feng Yi-hsin Huang Yan-cheng
Women's team details	China Sun Yingsha Wang Yidi Chen Meng Wang Manyu Chen Xingtong	Japan Hina Hayata Mima Ito Miwa Harimoto Miu Hirano Miyuu Kihara	France Jia Nan Yuan Prithika Pavade Camille Lutz Audrey Zarif Charlotte Lutz
			Hong Kong Zhu Chengzhu Doo Hoi Kem Lam Yee Lok Ng Wing Lam Lee Ho Ching

References

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2. "Dates for Busan 2024 ITTF World Team Championships Finals Announced". ittf.com. 22 September 2022. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
3. "Road to #Paris2024 – Olympic Table Tennis Qualification System Unveiled". ittf.com. 11 July 2022. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
4. "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Paris 2024" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
5. "Busan awarded 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships as ITTF President issues call for unity at AGM". Inside The Games. 1 May 2018. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
6. "2020 World Table Tennis Championships postponed due to COVID-19". ITTF. 25 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
7. "New dates for 2020 World Table Tennis Championships". ITTF. 7 April 2020. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
8. "ITTF Executive Committee: July update on COVID-19". ITTF. 10 July 2020. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
9. "ITTF reflects on highs and lows of the year. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships cancelled amidst pandemic". ITTF. 22 December 2020. Archived from the original on 23 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
10. "Busan to host 2024 table tennis world championships". The Korea Herald . Yonhap. 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
11. "Qualification Pathway" (PDF). ittf.com. 1 October 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
12. "ITTF World Team Championships Finals 2024 Draw Sets the Stage for an Electrifying Showdown in Busan". ittf.com. 16 January 2024. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

External links

• Official website
• YouTube Videos