ITTF World Cup | |
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Status | active |
Genre | sports competition |
Date(s) | various |
Frequency | Singles World Cup: every year Team World Cup: every two years Mixed Team World Cup: every year |
Location(s) | various |
Inaugurated | 1980 |
Organised by | ITTF |
Website | https://www.ittf.com/world-cup/ |
The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had been only men's singles until the inauguration of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions, the Team World Cup were canceled until the relaunch in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years. The competitions are sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and classified as R1 in rating weightings, B2 in bonus weightings in the ITTF world ranking. [1]
In the years 2021-2023, the event has been suspended. A new WTT event, WTT Cup Finals, began in 2021, which is the season-ending championship of the WTT. WTT stated that the winners of the WTT Cup Finals would win the prestigious ITTF World Cup trophies in March 2021, but the winners have been actually presented with WTT Cup Finals specific trophies since the inaugural edition, and the event has been renamed to simply WTT Finals since 2023, making it a pure season-ending event.
In 2023, ITTF announced the return of the ITTF World Cup under an innovative Mixed Team format. After the Mixed Team World Cup 2023, the Federation announced that the ITTF Singles World Cup will return in April 2024 taking place in Macao, China.
For 2024 Singles World Cup, participants of the competition are composed of: [2]
For previous editions, participants of the competition are composed of: [3]
The 2024 World Cup was divided into 2 stages: [2]
There will be a total of 56 matches (32 in Stage 1 + 24 in Stage 2).
In Stage 1 the teams will be divided into 4 groups (2 groups of 4 teams and 2 groups of 5 teams), with all the members of a group playing each other (round robin).
For Stage 1, the highest-ranked team will be placed in Group 1, the 2nd highest in Group 2, the 3rd highest in Group 3 and the 4th highest in Group 4; the remaining teams will be drawn into the groups 2 at a time in seeding order (modified snake system), with the exception teams 17 and 18 will be drawn into groups 3 and 4.
In Stage 2, the group winners and runners-up from Stage 1 will compete in a single group with all the members of a group playing each other (round robin), with the exception that teams having played each other in Stage 1 will not play again, but the results from Stage 1 will carry forward to Stage 2
The tournament will be played in accordance with the Laws of Table Tennis and the Regulations for International Competitions with the exceptions described in Note 2
The playing system is determined by the executive committee on recommendation by the Competition Department. [3] The 2009 World Cup was divided into 3 stages. All matches were the best of 7 games. [4]
All team matches are played on the Olympic System with a maximum of 4 singles and 1 doubles. And all individual matches of a team match are the best of 5 games. [3] [5]
Year | Host City | Gold | Silver | Semi-finalists |
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2021 | Singapore | Fan Zhendong | Tomokazu Harimoto | Hugo Calderano |
Wang Chuqin | ||||
2022 | Xinxiang | Wang Chuqin | Tomokazu Harimoto | Dimitrij Ovtcharov |
Ma Long | ||||
2023 | Doha | Wang Chuqin | Fan Zhendong | Lin Gaoyuan |
Dang Qiu |
Year | Host City | Gold | Silver | Semi-finalists |
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2021 | Singapore | Sun Yingsha | Wang Yidi | Chen Meng |
Hina Hayata | ||||
2022 | Xinxiang | Sun Yingsha | Chen Meng | Wang Manyu |
Wang Yidi | ||||
2023 | Nagoya | Sun Yingsha | Wang Yidi | Chen Meng |
Chen Xingtong |
Year | Host City | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1990 | Seoul | Hong Cha-ok Hyun Jung-hwa | Chai Po Wa Chan Tan Lui | Deng Yaping Hu Xiaoxin |
Hong Soon-hwa Lee Tae-joo | ||||
1992 | Las Vegas | Deng Yaping Qiao Hong | Hong Cha-ok Hyun Jung-hwa | Chai Po Wa Chan Tan Lui |
Chen Zihe Gao Jun |
Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third Place |
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China | 10 (1991, '94, 2007, '09, '10, '11, '13, '15, '18, '19) | 1 (1990) | 0 |
South Korea | 1 (1995) | 4 (2009, '10, '11, '19) | 2 (2007, '18) |
Sweden | 1 (1990) | 2 (1991, '94) | 0 |
Japan | 0 | 1 (2018) | 4 (1995, 2011, '13, '19) |
Germany | 0 | 1 (1995) | 3 (2009, '10, '11) |
Austria | 0 | 1 (2015) | 2 (2007, '10) |
Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 (2013) | 2 (2015, '19) |
Hong Kong | 0 | 1 (2007) | 1 (2009) |
North Korea | 0 | 0 | 2 (1990, '91) |
England | 0 | 0 | 2 (1990, 2018) |
France | 0 | 0 | 2 (1991, '94) |
Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 (1994) |
United States | 0 | 0 | 1 (1995) |
Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 (2013) |
Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 (2015) |
Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third Place |
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China | 11 (1990, '91, '95, 2007, '09, '10, '11, '13, '15, '18, '19) | 0 | 1 (1994) |
Russia | 1 (1994) | 0 | 0 |
Singapore | 0 | 2 (2009, '10) | 3 (2011, '13, '15) |
Japan | 0 | 4 (2011, '13, '18, '19) | 4 (1991, 2009, '10, '15) |
South Korea | 0 | 2 (1991, 2007) | 3 (1995, 2010, '19) |
North Korea | 0 | 2 (1990, 2015) | 2 (1991, 2018) |
Romania | 0 | 1 (1995) | 0 |
Germany | 0 | 1 (1994) | 0 |
Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 5 (2007, '09, '11, '13, '18) |
Hungary | 0 | 0 | 3 (1990, '95, 2007) |
France | 0 | 0 | 1 (1990) |
Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 (1994) |
Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 (2019) |
Year | Host City | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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2023 | Chengdu | China Chen Meng Fan Zhendong Lin Gaoyuan Ma Long Sun Yingsha Wang Chuqin Wang Manyu Wang Yidi | South Korea An Jae-hyun Jang Woo-jin Jeon Ji-hee Kim Na-yeong Lee Sang-su Lee Zi-on Lim Jong-hoon Shin Yu-bin | Japan Miwa Harimoto Tomokazu Harimoto Hina Hayata Miu Hirano Miyuu Kihara Kakeru Sone Shunsuke Togami Ryoichi Yoshiyama |
2024 | Chengdu | |||
2025 | Chengdu | |||
2026 | Chengdu | |||
2027 | Chengdu | |||
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