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Olympics Games 2008
Which women's teams qualified?
Which women's teams qualified for the 2008 Olympic Gamess?
Were all the best players there? Find out here...
By Martin Hughes
Owner and Editor
The Olympic Games were held in Beijing in the People's Republic of China from 8 to 24 August 2008 and there was some fabulous table tennis played.
Although the opening ceremony took place on 8 August 2008, the table tennis didn't actually start until Wednesday 13 August 2008.
A fabulous new state-of-the-art venue had been built at Peking University specifically for this event - so the players had the best possible conditions in which to play.
It had seating for 8,000 spectators - with 6,000 seats being permanent and 2,000 temporary.
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But...
Were all the best players there?
Unfortunately, because each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could only have a maximum of three men and three women competing, some of the stronger nations like China had several players who, despite being in the top 20 of the World Ranking list, were not at the Olympics.
However, this meant that the rivalry between the various nationalities was more intense, and provided us with some excellent matches to watch.
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So...
How did players qualify?
There was a complicated system of qualification for the Olympic table tennis events, but without getting too bogged down with the full details, here's a brief summary...
Team Events
For the team events, 16 teams qualified for the Olympic Games as follows:
- 6 Continental teams (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania)
- 10 selected teams
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So, which teams and players actually qualified?
Teams/players who qualified for the Olympic Games 2008
| Team | Players |
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Continental teams (6) |
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| 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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