Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Table tennis at the XVI Paralympic Games
Table tennis pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates	25 August – 3 September 2021
Competitors	280 in 31 events
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Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. ^[1] There were 280 qualified slots (174 male, 106 female) for male and female events. ^[2]

The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021. ^{[3] [4]}

Classification

Main article: Para table tennis § Classification

There are 11 classifications in table tennis. Classes 1 – 5 are assigned to athletes who sit in a wheelchair while competing. Classes 6 – 10 are assigned to athletes who stands while competing. The lower number indicates a greater degree of impairment. Class 11 is for athletes with intellectual impairment.

Qualification

Main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Events

31 events were contested. The events are men's and women's team and individual competitions for the various disability classifications.

Men's singles Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Class 10 Class 11

Men's team Class 1–2 Class 3 Class 4–5 Class 6–7 Class 8 Class 9–10

Women's singles Class 1–2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Class 10 Class 11

Women's team Class 1–3 Class 4–5 Class 6–8 Class 9–10

Participating nations

As of 25 August 2021. ^[5]

•   Argentina  (5)
•   Australia  (11)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Belgium  (3)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina  (1)
•   Brazil  (14)
•   Chile  (4)
•   China  (27)
•   Chinese Taipei  (4)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Costa Rica  (1)
•   Croatia  (3)
•   Cuba  (1)
•   Czech Republic  (3)
•   Denmark  (1)
•   Egypt  (6)
•   Finland  (1)
•   France  (14)
•   Germany  (8)
•   Great Britain  (13)
•   Greece  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (2)
•   Hungary  (6)
•   India  (2)
•   Indonesia  (3)
•   Iraq  (1)
•   Ireland  (1)
•   Israel  (1)
•   Italy  (7)
•   Japan  (11) (host country)
•   Jordan  (2)
•   Malaysia  (1)
•   Mexico  (3)
•   Montenegro  (2)
•   Netherlands  (2)
•   Nigeria  (6)
•   Norway  (3)
•   Poland  (12)
•   Romania  (1)
•   RPC  (10)
•   Saudi Arabia  (1)
•   Serbia  (5)
•   Slovakia  (5)
•   Slovenia  (1)
•   South Africa  (1)
•   Spain  (6)
•   South Korea  (19)
•   Sweden  (5)
•   Thailand  (12)
•   Tunisia  (1)
•   Turkey  (9)
•   Ukraine  (8)
•   United States  (4)
•   Venezuela  (1)

Schedule

Q

Qualification

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Men

Events	Dates
	Wed 25 Aug	Thurs 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug		Sat 28 Aug		Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tues 31 Aug		Wed 1 Sept		Thurs 2 Sept	Fri 3 Sept
Men's individual C1	Q			¼	½			F
Men's individual C2	Q			¼	½			F
Men's individual C3	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C4	Q			¼	½			F
Men's individual C5	Q			¼	½		F
Men's individual C6	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C7	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C8	Q				½			F
Men's individual C9	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C10	Q				½		F
Men's individual C11	Q			¼	½		F
Men's team C1-2									Q	¼		½		F
Men's team C3									Q		¼	½	F
Men's team C4-5									Q	¼	½		F
Men's team C6-7									Q		¼	½		F
Men's team C8									Q	¼		½	F
Men's team C9-10									Q	¼	½			F

Women

Events	Dates
	Wed 25 Aug	Thurs 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug		Sat 28 Aug		Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tues 31 Aug		Wed 1 Sept		Thurs 2 Sept	Fri 3 Sept
Women's individual C1-2	Q		¼		½	F
Women's individual C3	Q			¼	½		F
Women's individual C4	Q			¼	½	F
Women's individual C5	Q			¼	½		F
Women's individual C6	Q		¼	½			F
Women's individual C7	Q				½			F
Women's individual C8	Q				½		F
Women's individual C9	Q			½		F
Women's individual C10	Q					½		F
Women's individual C11	Q				½	F
Women's team C1-3									Q	¼	½		F
Women's team C4-5									Q		¼	½		F
Women's team C6-8									Q	¼	½		F
Women's team C9-10									Q		¼	½		F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China  (CHN)	16	4	6	26
2	Australia  (AUS)	2	4	0	6
3	France  (FRA)	2	2	7	11
4	Poland  (POL)	2	1	4	7
5	South Korea  (KOR)	1	6	6	13
6	RPC  (RPC)	1	2	4	7
7	Ukraine  (UKR)	1	2	3	6
8	Germany  (GER)	1	2	2	5
9	Netherlands  (NED)	1	1	0	2
10	Turkey  (TUR)	1	0	3	4
11	Belgium  (BEL)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	1	2
	United States  (USA)	1	0	1	2
14	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	2	5	7
15	Brazil  (BRA)	0	1	2	3
	Slovakia  (SVK)	0	1	2	3
17	Denmark  (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	India  (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	0	1
20	Thailand  (THA)	0	0	2	2
21	Chinese Taipei  (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia  (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic  (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong  (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia  (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Italy  (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan  (JPN)*	0	0	1	1
	Jordan  (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Montenegro  (MNE)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria  (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway  (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia  (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (33 entries)		31	31	62	124

Medalists

Men

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	1 details	Joo Young-dae   South Korea	Kim Hyeon-uk   South Korea	Nam Ki-won   South Korea
				Thomas Matthews   Great Britain
	2 details	Fabien Lamirault   France	Rafał Czuper   Poland	Cha Soo-yong   South Korea
				Park Jin-cheol   South Korea
	3 details	Feng Panfeng   China	Thomas Schmidberger   Germany	Jenson Van Emburgh   United States
				Zhai Xiang   China
	4 details	Abdullah Öztürk   Turkey	Kim Young-gun   South Korea	Maxime Thomas   France
				Nesim Turan   Turkey
	5 details	Valentin Baus   Germany	Cao Ningning   China	Ali Öztürk   Turkey
				Jack Hunter Spivey   Great Britain
	6 details	Ian Seidenfeld   United States	Peter Rosenmeier   Denmark	Paul Karabardak   Great Britain
				Rungroj Thainiyom   Thailand
	7 details	Yan Shuo   China	Will Bayley   Great Britain	Maksym Chudzicki   Poland
				Liao Keli   China
	8 details	Zhao Shuai   China	Viktor Didukh   Ukraine	Peng Weinan   China
				Maksym Nikolenko   Ukraine
	9 details	Laurens Devos   Belgium	Ma Lin   Australia	Ivan Mai   Ukraine
				Iurii Nozdrunov   RPC
	10 details	Patryk Chojnowski   Poland	Matéo Bohéas   France	Filip Radović   Montenegro
				David Jacobs   Indonesia
	11 details	Péter Pálos   Hungary	Samuel Von Einem   Australia	Lucas Créange   France
				Florian Van Acker   Belgium
Men's team	1–2 details	France Fabien Lamirault Stéphane Molliens	South Korea Cha Soo-yong Park Jin-cheol Kim Hyeon-uk	Slovakia Martin Ludrovský Ján Riapoš
				Poland Rafał Czuper Tomasz Jakimczuk
	3 details	China Feng Panfeng Zhai Xiang Zhao Ping	Germany Thomas Brüchle Thomas Schmidberger	Czech Republic Petr Svatoš Jiří Suchánek
				Thailand Anurak Laowong Yuttajak Glinbancheun Thirayu Chueawong
	4–5 details	China Cao Ningning Guo Xingyuan Zhang Yan	South Korea Kim Jung-gil Kim Young-gun Baek Young-bok	Slovakia Boris Trávníček Peter Mihálik
				France Florian Merrien Nicolas Savant-Aira Maxime Thomas
	6–7 details	China Yan Shuo Liao Keli Chen Chao	Great Britain Will Bayley Paul Karabardak	Germany Thomas Rau Björn Schnake
				Spain Jordi Morales Álvaro Valera
	8 details	China Zhao Shuai Peng Weinan Ye Chaoqun	Ukraine Viktor Didukh Maksym Nikolenko	France Thomas Bouvais Clément Berthier
				Great Britain Ross Wilson Aaron McKibbin Billy Shilton
	9–10 details	China Lian Hao Zhao Yiqing	Australia Ma Lin Joel Coughlan Nathan Pellissier	Ukraine Ivan Mai Lev Kats
				Nigeria Tajudeen Agunbiade Alabi Olufemi Victor Farinloye

Women

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's individual	1–2 details	Liu Jing   China	Seo Su-yeon   South Korea	Cátia Oliveira   Brazil
				Nadezhda Pushpasheva   RPC
	3 details	Xue Juan   China	Alena Kánová   Slovakia	Lee Mi-gyu   South Korea
				Yoon Ji-yu   South Korea
	4 details	Zhou Ying   China	Bhavina Patel   India	Gu Xiaodan   China
				Zhang Miao   China
	5 details	Zhang Bian   China	Pan Jiamin   China	Jung Young-a   South Korea
				Khetam Abuawad   Jordan
	6 details	Maryna Lytovchenko   Ukraine	Maliak Alieva   RPC	Raisa Chebanika   RPC
				Stephanie Grebe   Germany
	7 details	Kelly van Zon   Netherlands	Viktoriia Safonova   RPC	Anne Barnéoud   France
				Kübra Korkut   Turkey
	8 details	Mao Jingdian   China	Huang Wenjuan   China	Aida Dahlen   Norway
				Thu Kamkasomphou   France
	9 details	Lei Lina   Australia	Xiong Guiyan   China	Karolina Pęk   Poland
				Alexa Szvitacs   Hungary
	10 details	Yang Qian   Australia	Bruna Costa Alexandre   Brazil	Natalia Partyka   Poland
				Tien Shiau-wen   Chinese Taipei
	11 details	Elena Prokofeva   RPC	Léa Ferney   France	Wong Ting Ting   Hong Kong
				Maki Ito   Japan
Women's team	1–3 details	China Xue Juan Li Qian Liu Jing	South Korea Yoon Ji-yu Lee Mi-gyu Seo Su-yeon	Italy Michela Brunelli Giada Rossi
				Croatia Anđela Mužinić Helena Dretar Karić
	4–5 details	China Zhang Bian Zhou Ying Zhang Miao	Sweden Anna-Carin Ahlquist Ingela Lundbäck	Great Britain Megan Shackleton Sue Bailey
				Serbia Borislava Perić Nada Matić
	6–8 details	China Mao Jingdian Huang Wenjuan Wang Rui	Netherlands Frederique van Hoof Kelly van Zon	France Anne Barnéoud Thu Kamkasomphou
				RPC Viktoriia Safonova Maliak Alieva Raisa Chebanika
	9–10 details	Poland Natalia Partyka Karolina Pęk	Australia Yang Qian Lei Lina Melissa Tapper	Brazil Bruna Costa Alexandre Danielle Rauen Jennyfer Marques Parinos
				China Zhao Xiaojing Xiong Guiyan

See also

• Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Tokyo 2020 Venues". tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 7 November 2018.
2. "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 13 April 2021.
3. "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympic.org (Press release). International Olympic Committee. 24 March 2020.
4. "Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics: New dates confirmed for 2021". BBC Sport . 30 March 2020.
5. "Tokyo 2020 final list of athletes and teams" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. 9 July 2021.

External links

• Table Tennis Results Book – Tokyo 2020 Paralympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 September 2021)