Ai Fukuhara is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic medalist,winning silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics and bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics with the Japanese women's team. She is sponsored by All Nippon Airways.
Li Jiawei is a retired Chinese-born former Singaporean table tennis player,four-time Olympian and twice Olympic medalist. She trained in Beijing's famous Shichahai Sports School with Olympic medalist Zhang Yining. In 1995,she moved to Singapore and in the following year,she commenced her international career as a competitive table tennis player. She became a Singapore citizen at the age of 18 years under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme.
Zhang Yining is a Chinese table tennis player who retired in 2009. She is considered one of the greatest female players in the sport's history. In terms of achievements,she is one of the most successful female table tennis players having won the gold medal in each of the Table Tennis World Cup,the Table Tennis World Championships,and the Olympic Games. She is also the first player overall,and the first female,to have completed a Double Grand Slam.
Li Xiaoxia is a Chinese table tennis Grand Slam champion.
Feng Tianwei is a retired Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin,China,she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month.
Wang Yuegu is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player who was ranked among the top ten players in the world. Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean table tennis player on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in Suncheon,South Korea,where she and Sun Beibei took the silver medal in the women's doubles. On 24 September 2006,Wang achieved her first gold medal on the Pro Tour at the Japan Open in Yokohama. She repeated the feat against her compatriot Li Jiawei on 12 November at the ITTF Pro Tour German Open in Bayreuth. In June 2007,Wang helped Singapore sweep the women's team,women's doubles and mixed doubles gold trophies at the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Jaipur.
Shen Yanfei is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Spain and resides in Cartagena,Murcia.
Mo Zhang is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Canada. She was born in Shijiazhuang,and currently resides in Vancouver.
Gao Ning is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. He is currently appointed as the Singapore Table Tennis National Coach for men. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 34 as of August 2016. He was first in men's singles at the 2007 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. In 2018,Gao and Yu Mengyu won the men's singles and mixed doubles at the Commonwealth Games.
Liu Shiwen is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion,one-time World Champion,three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the fastest players in the world.
Ding Ning is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships.
Yu Mengyu is a retired Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Liaoning,China,Yu left China in 2006 at the age of 17 to join the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. In the same year,Yu made her international debut for Singapore.
The women's singles table tennis event was a part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 1 August 2012 at ExCeL London. The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists.
Ariel Yenhua Hsing is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Lily Ann Zhang is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with teammates Ariel Hsing and Erica Wu. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio with teammates Jiaqi Zheng and Jennifer Wu. She is a six-time US national champion in women's singles. Zhang has won the US national championship in 2012,2014,2016,2017,2019 and 2022. In 2011,she was a bronze medalist in women's singles and women's team at the Pan American Games and won the women's doubles title at the Qatar Peace and Sport Cup. She is currently a member of the United States National Women's team. She has been ranked as high as #2 in the cadet (U-15) world ranking and #5 in the junior (U-18) world ranking.
Galyna Volodymyrivna "Galia" Dvorak Khasanova is a Spanish table tennis player. She was born in Kyiv,but her family moved to Spain when she was two. Both of her parents were also international table tennis players. She won a bronze medal in the women's team event at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara,Italy. As of May 2019,Dvorak is ranked no. 94 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Dvorak is a member of the table tennis team for CN Mataró,and is coached and trained by Peter Engel,Linus Mernsten,and her mother Flora Khasanova. She is also right-handed,and uses the classic grip.
Chen Meng is a Chinese professional table tennis player and Olympic champion. She joined the provincial team when she was 9 and joined the national team when she was only 13 in 2007. She is the women's singles champion of the ITTF Women's World Cup in 2020,the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in 2017,2018,2019 and 2020 and also at the inaugural WTT Singapore Smash. She is also the silver medalist of women's singles in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships and a double gold medalist in the 2020 Summer Olympics. She obtained her second gold medal in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Miu Hirano is a Japanese table tennis player. She won Women's World Cup in 2016 as the youngest ever winner. She won the women's singles at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships by sweeping away three top Chinese players. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics,winning a silver medal in women's team event.
Adriana Yamila Díaz González is a Puerto Rican table tennis player. As of November 2022,she was ranked 3 and 11 in the Table Tennis World Ranking according to the International Table Tennis Federation. Díaz is sponsored by Butterfly and Adidas. Adriana is the sister of the table tennis player,Melanie Díaz,and cousin of Brian Afanador.
This page lists the table tennis events for 2016.
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