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Olympic Games 2008
Women - Who Qualified?
Which women qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games?
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 we saw some fabulous table tennis.
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.
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So...
How did players qualify?
There was a complicated system of qualification for the Olympic table tennis event, but without getting too bogged down with the full details, here's a brief summary...
Singles Events
For each of the singles events, 64 table tennis players qualified for the Olympic Games as follows:
- The top 20 players on the ITTF World Ranking list as at 3 January 2008 (with a maximum of two players per NOC)
- 40 players who qualified via continental qualification events held between July 2007 and April 2008
(Africa 6, Asia 11, Europe 11, Latin America 6, North America 3 and Oceania 3)
- One player by invitation of the IOC/ANOC/ITTF
- The top three players at the Final World Qualification Tournament who had not already qualified.
The number of qualification places for the Singles events from the Final World Qualification Tournament could be increased if...
- the continental allocation of 40 players is not reached
- the host nation direct entry place is not used and/or
- the Team Quota of 22 places is not fully utilised
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So, which women players actually qualified...
Players who qualified for the Olympics 2008
| Player (Women) | NOC | |
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Directly qualified by World Ranking (20)
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| 1 | GUO Yue | CHN |
| 2 | ZHANG Yining | CHN |
| 3 | WANG Yue Gu | SIN |
| 4 | LI Jia Wei | SIN |
| 5 | FUKUHARA Ai | JPN |
| 6 | KIM Kyung Ah | KOR |
| 7 | WU Jiaduo | GER |
| 8 | HIRANO Sayaka | JPN |
| 9 | LIU Jia | AUT |
| 10 | LI Jiao | NED |
| 11 | GAO Jun | USA |
| 12 | PARK Mi Young | KOR |
| 13 | BOROS Tamara | CRO |
| 14 | LI Qian | POL |
| 15 | WANG Chen | USA |
| 16 | TOTH Krisztina | HUN |
| 17 | LAU Sui Fei | HKG |
| 18 | DODEAN Daniela | ROU |
| 19 | SCHALL (WOSIK) Elke | GER |
| 20 | NI Xia Lian | LUX |
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African Qualification Tournament (6)
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| 1 | YANG Fen | CGO |
| 2 | KAFFO Bose | NGR |
| 3 | OFFIONG Cecilia Otu | NGR |
| 4 | ABDUL-AZIZ Shaimaa | EGY |
| 5 | YOSSRY Noha | EGY |
| 6 | FOMUM Victorine Agum | CMR |
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Latin America Qualification Tournament (6)
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| 1 | WU Xue | DOM |
| 2 | RAMOS Fabiola | VEN |
| 3 | NONAKA Mariany | BRA |
| 4 | QIAN Lian | DOM |
| 5 | MEDINA Paula | COL |
| 6 | SILVA Yadira | MEX |
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Asia Qualification Tournament (11)
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| 1 | SHUMAKOVA Marina | KAZ |
| 2 | FENG Tianwei | SIN |
| 3 | SHABAN Zeina | OR |
| 4 | DANG Ye Seo | KOR |
| 5 | KOMWONG Nanthana | THA |
| 6 | WANG Nan | CHN |
| 7 | FUKUOKA Haruna | JPN |
| 8 | KIM Jong | PRK |
| 9 | KIM Mi Yong | PRK |
| 10 | AGGARWAL Neha | IND |
| 11 | HUANG I-Hwa | TPE |
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Europe Qualification Tournament (11)
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| 1 | LIE Jie | NED |
| 2 | PAVLOVICH Victoria | BLR |
| 3 | SAMARA Elizabeta | ROU |
| 4 | HU Melek | TUR |
| 5 | XIAN Yi Fang | FRA |
| 6 | GANINA Svetlana | RUS |
| 7 | PAOVIC Sandra | CRO |
| 8 | XU Jie | POL |
| 9 | LI Qiangbing | AUT |
| 10 | ZHU Fang | ESP |
| 11 | TAN MONFARDINI Wenling | ITA |
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North America Qualification Tournament (3)
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| 1 | HUANG Crystal Yao Xi | USA |
| 2 | ZHANG Mo | CAN |
| 3 | LONG Judy (Zhu) | CAN |
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Oceania Qualification Tournament (3)
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| 1 | LAY Jian Fang | AUS |
| 2 | SANG Stephanie Xu | AUS |
| 3 | MIAO Miao | AUS |
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Invitation (1)
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| 1 | TOMMY Priscila | VAN |
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Final Qualification Tournament (3)
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| 1 | TIE Yana | HKG |
| 2 | LIN Ling | HKG |
| 3 | SHEN Yanfei | ESP |
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Additional Singles Qualifiers
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| 1 | POTA Georgina | HUN |
| 2 | KOTIKHINA Irina | RUS |
| 3 | PAN Li-Chun | TPE |
| 4 | KOSTROMINA Tatyana | BLR |
| 5 | STEFANOVA Nikoleta | ITA |
| 6 | PESOTSKA Margaryta | UKR |
| 7 | BAKULA Andrea | CRO |
| 8 | FADEEVA Oksana | RUS |
| 9 | LOVAS Petra | HUN |
| 10 | PAVLOVICH Veronika | BLR |
| 11 | ODOROVA Eva | SVK |
| 12 | HADACOVA Dana | CZE |
| 13 | PASKAUSKIENE Ruta | LTU |
| 14 | SOROCHINSKAYA Tetyana | UKR |
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