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World Team Championships 2020
The World Team Championships 2020 was due to take place in Busan, South Korea from 22 to 29 March 2020. Get all the details here
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CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Update: 22nd December 2020
The ITTF Executive Committee met on Monday 21 December 2020.
The Korea Table Tennis Association have been informed by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency that it would not allow major international sporting events in the next few months. It was therefore unanimously agreed to make the extremely difficult and heartbreaking decision to cancel the World Championships, due to be held between 28 February and 7 March 2021, for the first time since World War II.
Update: 10th July 2020
The ITTF Executive Committee met on Friday 10th July 2020 to discuss the latest situation for international table tennis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
They decided that the Hana Bank 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, Korea Republic, will be staged between 28 February and 7 March 2021.
Update: 2 May 2020
The current period of suspension of all ITTF events and activities has been extended up until the end of July 2020; the situation is being monitored closely for an eventual restart of ITTF events in August 2020.
A decision about the status of the Hana Bank 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships will be made in June 2020.
UPDATE
7 April 2020
The ITTF have announced new provisional dates of 27 September–4 October 2020 for the World Team Championships 2020.
The ITTF and Korean TTA continue to monitor the situation, with the priority being placed on the health and safety of players, coaches, fans and officials.
UPDATE
25 February 2020
Following news of the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Busan, Korea Republic, the Hana Bank 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, originally planned for 22-29 March 2020, have been postponed with the dates of 21-28 June provisionally reserved.
The ITTF 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships were due to be hosted and organized by the Korea Table Tennis Association under the auspices and authority of the International Table Tennis Federation.
The title sponsor was Hana Bank - one of the business networks under the parent company of the Hana Financial Group, headquartered in Seoul and established in 1967.
The Championships were due to be held from Sunday 22 March to Sunday 29 March 2020 at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center in Busan, South Korea.
The Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (commonly known as BEXCO) is a convention and exhibition center located in Centum City, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea.
It opened in 2001 and has a total floor area of 26,508m2.
Hall 1 was due to have 3 tables and 5,000 spectator seats.
Hall 2 was due to be the training hall and will have 40 tables.
Hall 3 was due to have 21 tables and 1,500 spectator seats.
So let's take a closer look at the 2020 Team event...
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But first, did you know that the World Table Tennis Championships are now...
Separate competitions
The World Table Tennis Championships first took place in 1926 in London, England. However, since the year 2000, the Championship has been split into two separate competitions.
Team events are now held in even numbered years, whilst individual events (singles and doubles) are held in odd numbered years.
So 2020 was the year for the team events to be contested, and Busan, South Korea were due to stage the event from 22-29 March 2020.
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So what are the...
Events included in 2020
Team Event Cups
by courtesy of the ITTF
The World Table Tennis Championships 2020 events were going to be...
The Swaythling Cup was donated in 1926 by Lady Baroness Swaythling, mother of Ivor Montagu, whilst the Corbillon Cup was donated in 1933 by Marcel Corbillon, President of the French TTA, for the first Women's Team event at the 1934 World Championships.
However, the original Corbillon Cup disappeared just after World War Two, so the German Table Tennis Federation paid for an exact replica in 1949 (the German Women's team won the Cup in the 1939 World Championships - the last time it was played before the outbreak of World War Two).
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And what about the...
Equipment being used in 2020
The following equipment was due to be used at the 2020 World Team Championships...
- Tables - Butterfly Gridix blue (show courts) and Starker BS-2 blue (regular)
- Nets - Butterfly Europa black
- Balls - DHS DJ40+ *** (plastic with seam) white
- Flooring - Enlio Super Weaving Surface blue
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And let's look at the...
Format of the 2020 World Team Championships
The World Team Championships were due to be played on a "Division" System with 24 teams in 3 Divisions.
In each of the 3 Divisions there were to be 4 groups of 6 teams.
The 1st Division was also the Championship Division. Only teams in this division could compete for the title of World Champions.
Only associations who took part with at least one player or team in its preceding Continental Championships, including qualification tournaments, or Continental Games were eligible to enter a team in the 2020 World Championships.
Teams
The teams that finished in the top 14 places at the 2018 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the Championship Division regardless of World Ranking.
In addition, the teams who finished in first and second places in the remaining divisions in 2018 gained promotion to the next highest division.
Seeding
Seeding was due to be based on the World Team Ranking. (The World Team Ranking for each national association is based on the three highest ranked players in that association named on the current Men's and Women's World Rankings).
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And let's now take a look at the...
Playing System for the 2020 World Team Championships
The playing system for the 1st Division (Championship Division) was going to be in two stages...
Each group of 6 teams would play a complete round-robin competition (5 matches per team).
Then...
Following the completion of the round robin stage in each group, the teams who finished in the top three positions in each group advance to a knock-out competition to compete for the title of World Champions.
The winners of each group (4 teams) go directly into the quarter finals and are seeded accordingly.
The teams finishing 2nd in each group are drawn randomly into positions 5-8 in Round 1.
The teams finishing 3rd in each group are drawn randomly into positions 9-12 in Round 1 (except, teams having played against each other in the group stage will not meet again in the first round of the knock-out competition).
And...
The teams finishing 4th, 5th and 6th in each group (12 teams) play a similar knock-out competition to determine positions 13 to 24.
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Here are the...
Teams who were due to take part in 2020
MEN
First (Championship) Division
China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Chinese Taipei, Brazil, France, Portugal, England, India, Austria, Croatia, Hong Kong China, Slovenia, Egypt, Nigeria, Romania, Slovak Republic, Belarus, Czech Republic, Belgium, Iran, Hungary.
Second Division
Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Poland, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Greece, Puerto Rico, Australia, Thailand, Serbia, Chile, Singapore, Netherlands, Togo, Mexico, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Paraguay, Turkey, Canada, Vietnam.
Third Division
Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Israel, Ecuador, Finland, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Congo Democratic, Jordan, Guatemala, Ghana, Congo Brazzaville, UAE, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, San Marino, Morocco, Qatar, Mongolia, Bahrain.
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WOMEN
First (Championship) Division
China, Japan, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Germany, Hong Kong China, Singapore, Romania, USA, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Puerto Rico, Hungary, Russia, Egypt, Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, Luxembourg, Spain, India, France, Turkey.
Second Division
Brazil, Czech Republic, Belarus, Chile, Serbia, Italy, Slovak Republic, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Croatia, Kazakhstan, England, Mexico, Malaysia, Slovenia, South Africa, Greece, Switzerland, Colombia, Iran, Congo Democratic, Indonesia.
Third Division
Uzbekistan, Guatemala, Estonia, Portugal, Mongolia, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Norway, Finland, Dominican Republic, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Macau-China, Morocco, Ethiopia, Wales, Bangladesh, Nepal, Peru, Denmark, Seychelles, Qatar, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana.
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So who were the...
2018 Winners
The last World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Halmsted, Sweden in 2018 and the winners were...
- Men's Team - China
- Women's Team - China
China's men defeated Germany in the final, whilst China's women defeated Japan in the final.
China - World Team Champions 2018
China - World Team Champions 2018
All the results for 2018 are here...
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And you can get all the information here for the...
2020 ITTF World Team Championships
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