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Table Tennis Olympics 2008

Which womens teams have qualified?

Who has qualified for the 2008 Table Tennis Olympics?
Will the best players all be 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)

KAFFO Bose
OFFIONG Cecilia Otu
OSHONAIKE Olufunke

Asia (China)

GUO Yue
ZHANG Yining
WANG Nan

Europe (Netherlands)

LI Jiao
LIE Jie
TIMINA Elena

Latin America
(Dominican Republic)

WU Xue
QIAN Lian
VALDEZ Johenny

North America (USA)

GAO Jun
WANG Chen
HUANG Crystal Yao Xi

Oceania (Australia)

LAY Jian Fang
SANG Stephanie Xu
MIAO Miao

 

Selected teams (10)

Singapore

WANG Yue Gu
LI Jia Wei
FENG Tianwei

Korea Republic

KIM Kyung Ah
PARK Mi Young
DANG Ye Seo

Hong Kong

LAU Sui Fei
TIE Yana
LIN Ling

Japan

FUKUHARA Ai
HIRANO Sayaka
FUKUOKA Haruna

Germany

WU Jia Duo
SCHALL (WOSIK) Elke
BARTHEL Zhenqi

Austria

LIU Jia
LI Qiangbing
HEINE Veronika

Croatia

BOROS Tamara
PAOVIC Sandr
BAKULA Andrea

Poland

LI Qian
XU Jie
PARTYKA Natalia

Spain

ZHU Fang
SHEN Yanfei
DVORAK Galyna

Romania

DODEAN Daniela
SAMARA Elizabeta
NECULA Iulia Georgiana

 


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