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Table Tennis Olympics 2008

Which mens teams qualified?

Who qualified for the 2008 Table Tennis Olympics?
Were all the best players there? Find out here ...

 

Table Tennis Olympics VenueThe Olympic Games are being held in Beijing in the People's Republic of China from 8 to 24 August 2008 and I'm sure we'll see some fabulous table tennis.

Although the opening ceremony takes place on
8 August 2008, the table tennis olympics don't actually start until Wednesday 13 August 2008.

A fabulous new state-of-the-art venue has been built at Peking University specifically for this event - so the players will have the best possible conditions in which to play.

It has seating for 8,000 spectators - with 6,000 seats being permanent and 2,000 temporary.

 

 

  Will all the best players be there?

Unfortunately, because each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can only have a maximum of three men and three women competing, some of the stronger nations like China will have several players who, despite being in the top 20 of the World Ranking list, will not be at the Olympics.

However, this means that the rivalry between the various nationalities will be more intense, and should provide us with some excellent matches.

 

  So how do players qualify?

There's a complicated system of qualification for the Olympic table tennisevents, but without getting too bogged down with the full details, here's a brief summary ...

Team Events

For the team events, 16 teams will qualify for the Olympic Games as follows:

  • 6 Continental teams (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania)

  • 1 Host Nation team

  • 9 selected teams (or 10 if host nation already qualified)

 

So, which teams and players have actually qualified ...

 

  Teams/players qualified for the Olympics 2008

Team Players
 

Continental teams (6)

Africa (Nigeria) TORIOLA Segun
MEROTOHUN Monday
NOSIRU EKUNDAYO
Asia (China)

WANG Hao
MA Lin
WANG Liqin

Europe (Germany)

BOLL Timo
OVTCHAROV Dimitrij
SÜSS CHRISTIAN

Latin America (Brazil)

TSUBOI Gustavo
MONTEIRO Thiago
HOYAMA Hugo

North America (Canada)

ZHANG Peng
PETER-PAUL Pradeeban
SHEN Qiang

Oceania (Australia)

HENZEL William
DAVIS Kyle
ZALCBERG David

 

Selected teams (10)

Korea Republic

RYU Seung Min
OH Sang Eun
YOON Jae Young

Hong Kong

LI Ching
KO Lai Chak
CHEUNG Yuk

Austria

SCHLAGER Werner
GARDOS Robert
CHEN Weixing

Japan

KAN Yo
MIZUTANI Jun
KISHIKAWA Seiya

Singapore

GAO Ning
YANG Zi
CAI Xiaoli

Chinese Taipei

CHUAN Chih-Yuan
CHIANG Peng-Lung
CHANG Yen-Shu

Croatia

PRIMORAC Zoran
TAN Ruiwu
GACINA Andrej

Greece

KREANGA Kalinikos
GIONIS Panagiotis
TSIOKAS Ntaniel

Sweden

PERSSON Jorgen
LUNDQVIST Jens
GERELL Per

Russia

SMIRNOV Alexei
KUZMIN Fedor
MAZUNOV Dmitry

 

 


  Read more about the Olympic Games

2004 Olympic Games - Athens, Greece

2008 Olympic Games - Beijing, China

2012 Olympic Games - London, England

 


 

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