Wáng Hào is a retired Chinese table tennis player. He became the World Champion in Men's Singles in Yokohama, Japan in May 2009, defeating 3-time World Champion Wang Liqin 4–0. Other notable accomplishments include being a 3-time World Cup Champion in 2007, 2008 and 2010, a singles silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In January 2010, he was replaced by Ma Long as the #1 rank on the official ITTF world rankings. He was previously ranked #1 on the official ITTF world rankings for 27 consecutive months, from October 2007 to December 2009. In April 2011, he was again the top ranked male player in the world. He is known to execute the Reverse Penhold Backhand (RPB) with exceptional skill.
Jörg Roßkopf is a former professional German table tennis player who is currently the head coach of the German Men's National Table Tennis Team. As a player, he won the title in Men's Doubles at the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships and the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, with Steffen Fetzner as his partner. In Men's Singles, he won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the gold medal at the Table Tennis World Cup in 1998.
Kelly Sibley is a former professional table tennis player and current coach from England. Sibley won the singles, girls doubles and mixed doubles at the UK Junior Championships and has represented England at senior level at the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and World Championships.
Aleksandar Karakašević is a Serbian table tennis player. His incredible feeling and powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal on 2011 European Championship. One of his greatest result achieved in USA is his victory at the US Open Championship, July 2007, where he established himself as a world class athlete, winning the tournament title for the 3rd time by defeating Kurashima Yosuke from Japan with the result of 4:0.
Zhang Mo is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Canada. She was born in Shijiazhuang, and resides currently in Vancouver.
The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships every two years in even-numbered years until 2002, when they changed to odd-numbered years. Since 2007, the competition has been contested annually.
Tennis competitions at the 2011 Games of the Small States of Europe were held from June 1 to June 4 at the Tenniscenter Bannholz in Vaduz. The tournament was played on clay courts.
Tennis competitions at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe in Monaco were held from June 5 to June 9 at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Monte Carlo. The tournament took place on Clay courts.
Tennis at the 2011 Pacific Games in Nouméa, New Caledonia was held on August 29–September 8, 2011.
Marcos André Sousa da Silva Freitas is a European Champion table tennis player from Portugal.
Table tennis at the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique was held on September 3–13, 2011.
Table tennis at the 2013 Games of the Small States of Europe was held from 28 May – 1 June 2013 at d'Coque, Luxembourg.
Tennis competitions at the 2013 Games of the Small States of Europe was held from May 28 to June 1 at the Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg.
Table tennis, for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place from 25 November to 29 November 2013.
Tennis at the Pacific Games has been contested since 1963 when it was included as one of ten sports at the First South Pacific Games held in Suva, Fiji.
Table Tennis is an event at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies.
This is a list of achievements in major international table tennis events according to gold, silver and bronze medal results obtained by athletes representing different nations. The objective is not to create a combined medal table; the focus is on listing the best positions achieved by athletes in major global events, ranking the countries according to the most number of podiums accomplished by athletes of these nations. In order to be considered for the making of the list, competitions must be ranked among the highest possible rank (R1) by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF); these competitions are: 1) Summer Olympic Games, 2) Youth Olympic Games, 3) World Table Tennis Championships, 4) World Junior Table Tennis Championships, and 5) Table Tennis World Cup. Masters, as well as Para meets, such as the Para World Championships and the Paralympic Games, were not taken into consideration, as per ITTF guidelines.
The table tennis competition at the 2017 Games of the Small States of Europe took place from 30 May to 3 June 2017 at the Kursaal Congress Center in the City of San Marino. Compared to previous competition at Games of the Small States of Europe, two new events were added, men's and women's team events, bringing total number to 6 events.
Table tennis at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila, Vanuatu was held on December 4–14, 2017.
