Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Table tennis
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Table Tennis, Tokyo 2020.svg
Venue Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates24 July – 6 August 2021
No. of events5
Competitors173 from 57 nations
  2016
2024  

Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (postponed to 2021 [1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) featured 173 table tennis players. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on eight previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Qualification

As the host nation, Japan had automatically qualified six athletes; a team of three men and women with one each competing in the singles as well as a mixed doubles team. [2]

For the team events, 16 teams were qualified. Each continent (with the Americas being divided into North America and South America for ITTF competition) had a qualifying competition to qualify one team. Nine teams qualified through a world qualifying event. [2]

The mixed doubles also had 16 pairs qualify. Each continent (with the Americas being divided into North America and South America for ITTF competition) had a qualifying competition to qualify one pair. Four teams qualified through the World Tour Grand Finals 2019 and five through the World Tour 2020. Japan was also guaranteed a place. If an NOC had both a mixed doubles pair and a team in one or both genders qualify, the doubles player must be a member of the team in their gender. [2]

For individual events, between 64 and 70 individual players qualified. Each NOC with a qualified team were permitted to enter two members of that team in the individual competition. 22 quota places would be awarded through continental championships to individuals who belong to an NOC without a qualified team. There would be one Tripartite Commission invitation place. The remainder of the total 172 quota places would be filled through a final world singles qualifying tournament (no less than two and no more than eight qualifiers) and then the ITTF world ranking. [2]

Competition schedule

Legend
PPreliminary round¼Quarterfinals½SemifinalsFFinal
Event↓/Date →Sat 24Sun 25Mon 26Tue 27Wed 28Thu 29Fri 30Sat 31Sun 1Mon 2Tue 3Wed 4Thu 5Fri 6
Men's singles P¼½F
Men's team P¼½F
Women's singles P¼½F
Women's team P¼½F
Mixed doubles P¼½F

Participating nations

A total of 173 athletes (85 men and 88 women), representing 57 NOCs, competed in five events. [3] One Czech athlete tested positive for COVID-19 and withdrew from the Games. [4] Two NOCs (China and Hungary) replaced injured athletes with reserves in the team event. [5] [6]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 4307
2Flag of Japan.svg  Japan*1124
3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 0112
4Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 0011
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 0011
Totals (5 entries)55515

Medalists

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's singles
details
Ma Long
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Fan Zhendong
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Men's team
details
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Fan Zhendong
Ma Long
Xu Xin
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Patrick Franziska
Timo Boll
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Jun Mizutani
Koki Niwa
Tomokazu Harimoto
Women's singles
details
Chen Meng
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Sun Yingsha
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Mima Ito
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Women's team
details
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Chen Meng
Sun Yingsha
Wang Manyu
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Mima Ito
Kasumi Ishikawa
Miu Hirano
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong
Doo Hoi Kem
Lee Ho Ching
Minnie Soo
Mixed doubles
details
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Jun Mizutani
Mima Ito
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Xu Xin
Liu Shiwen
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei
Lin Yun-ju
Cheng I-ching

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