Table tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games

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Table tennis pictogram for the games
Venue Atos Markham Pan Am Centre
DatesJuly 19–25
No. of events4 (2 men, 2 women)
Competitors80 from 16 nations
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Table tennis competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held from July 19 to 25 at the Markham Pan Am Centre (Atos Markham Pan Am Centre) in Markham. [1] Due to naming rights, the arena was known as the latter for the duration of the games. [2] A total of four table tennis events were held: two each for men and women. [3]

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The winners of each the individual events, provided they are not already qualified, qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [4]

Venue

The Markham Pan Am Centre (Atos Markham Pan Am Centre), in Markham, was the venue for the table tennis competitions Tabletennis2015.jpg
The Markham Pan Am Centre (Atos Markham Pan Am Centre), in Markham, was the venue for the table tennis competitions

The competitions took place at the Atos Markham Pan Am Centre (Markham Pan Am Centre) located in the city of Markham, about 31 kilometers from the athletes village. The arena had capacity of 2,000 people per session (1,000 permanent seating + 1,000 temporary seats). [2] The venue also hosted badminton competitions earlier during the games. The venue also hosted the water polo competitions, but in the other side of the centre (an Olympic sized pool). [5]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the table tennis competitions: [6]

PPreliminariesR32Round of 32R16Round of 16¼Quarterfinals½SemifinalsFFinal
Event↓/Date →Sun 19Mon 20Tue 21Wed 22Thu 23Fri 24Sat 25
Men's singles PPPR32R16¼½F
Men's team PP¼½F
Women's singles PPPR32R16¼½F
Women's team PP¼½F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2327
2Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2013
3Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 0101
4Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada*0033
5Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 0022
Totals (5 nations)44816

Medalists

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's singles
details
Hugo Calderano
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Gustavo Tsuboi
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Thiago Monteiro
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Eugene Wang
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Men's team
details
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Hugo Calderano
Thiago Monteiro
Gustavo Tsuboi
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay
Marcelo Aguirre
Axel Gavilan
Alejandro Toranzos
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Marko Medjugorac
Pierre-Luc Thériault
Eugene Wang
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Brian Afanador
Héctor Berríos
Daniel González
Women's singles
details
Jennifer Wu
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Gui Lin
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Caroline Kumahara
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Lily Zhang
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Women's team
details
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Lily Zhang
Jennifer Wu
Jiaqi Zheng
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Gui Lin
Caroline Kumahara
Lígia Silva
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Alicia Cote
Anqi Luo
Zhang Mo
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Carelyn Cordero
Adriana Diaz
Melanie Diaz

Participating nations

A total of 16 countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

A total of 80 athletes (40 men and 40 women) qualified to compete at the games. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per gender. As host nation, Canada automatically qualified a full team of six athletes. All other athletes qualified at the qualification tournament in March 2015. [7]

See also

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