Singapore has sent athletes to the celebration of the Olympic Games since 1948, when it was established as a separate British crown colony from the Straits Settlements just over three months before the commencement of the 1948 Summer Olympics. It continued to send a team to the Games until 1964 when the Singaporean delegation competed with Malaysia, which sent a combined team.
Paul Andrew Drinkhall is a British table tennis player. He won the English Championship in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov or Dmytro Ovtcharov is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail, a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born.
Ma Long is a Chinese professional table tennis player, six-time Olympic champion, and three-time World Champion. He is the reigning World Cup singles champion. Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, he is the first and only male player to complete a career Double Grand Slam as the Olympic gold medalist in men's singles in 2016 and 2020. He is the first and only table tennis athlete to win 6 gold medals in summer Olympics while no other table tennis player has more than four.
Liam Benjamin Pitchford is an English table tennis player. He is sponsored by Victas.
Alexander Igorevich Shibaev is a Russian table tennis player. He won the doubles crown with Alexey Smirnov at the 2010 Slovenian Open. In 2011, he won a silver medal with Kirill Skachkov in the double event at the European Championships.
Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 17 August 2016 at the third pavilion of Riocentro. Around 172 table tennis players competed in both the singles and team events. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on seven previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. In addition to men's and women's singles, the team events were staged for the third time since replacing doubles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Xu Xin is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 103 as of May 2023 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He first reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 in January 2013.
Fan Zhendong is a Chinese professional table tennis player. After joining the Chinese national table tennis team in 2012 as the youngest member of the team, he went on to become the youngest ITTF World Tour Champion and the youngest World Table Tennis Champion. In April 2018, he achieved the top spot in the world rankings after holding position No. 2 for 29 consecutive months, starting from November 2015. He won the Olympic gold medal in men's singles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, becoming just the 6th male player to achieve a Grand Slam.
Samuel Jake Walker is a British table tennis player.
The men's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The event took place from 6 August to 11 August 2016 at Riocentro.
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian in the sport, currently ranked at 89 in the world as of November 2022. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back gold medals in the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Manika Batra is an Indian table tennis player. She was the top female singles table tennis player in India and currently is ranked second in India. She is currently ranked 28 in the world by ITTF as of July 2024. She is one of the female players who uses a long pimple rubber. She was awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020.
Emmanuel Lebesson is a French table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated by Adrian Crișan, and as part of the French team in the men's team event. In October 2016 he won the men's singles title at the European Table Tennis Championships, defeating compatriot Simon Gauzy in the final.
Mattias Falck is a Swedish table tennis player.
Kanak Jha is an American table tennis player. He is a three-time Olympian, and was the US national champion five times, winning the national title between 2016 and 2019 for a record four straight national titles and adding a fifth title in 2024 on his way to the Olympics in Paris.
Tomokazu Harimoto is a Japanese professional table tennis player who is currently world rank number 11 in ITTF. Born to Chinese parents, he became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2014. He won the world junior singles and team title at the 2016 World Junior Table Tennis Championships for Japan.
Lin Yun-Ju is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He is a left-handed player who plays with the shakehand grip.
Alexis Lebrun is a French table tennis player and a three-time French national champion, from years 2022 to 2024. As of 6 August 2024, he is ranked 18th in the world in the ITTF world rankings.
Félix Lebrunpronounced[felikslə.bʁœ̃] is a French table tennis player. He was a gold medalist at the 2023 European Games and reached the top ten list of the ITTF world ranking for the first time in October 2023. As of 6 August 2024, he was number 5 in the world in the ITTF world rankings, making him the top-ranked French and European player. Stylistically, he plays with a penholder grip, which is a rarity among top players today. He won two bronze medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, one in individual and one in team, thus becoming at 17 years the youngest ever medalist in those events, and also the youngest male medalist.
