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The World Team Championships 2024 take place in Busan, South Korea from 16 to 25 February 2024. Get all the details here
By Martin Hughes
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The 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships are being hosted and organized by the South Korean Table Tennis Association under the auspices and authority of the International Table Tennis Federation.
Presented by BNK Busan Bank, they're set to take place at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre (BEXCO) in South Korea from 16 to 25 February 2024.
Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre (BEXCO)This marks Korea Republic's first-ever hosting of the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals - a long-awaited milestone that promises a unique experience for fans and a chance to celebrate Korea Republic's place in table tennis history.
So let's take a closer look at the 2024 Team event...
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But first, did you know that the World Table Tennis Championships are now...
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 2024 is the year for the team events to be contested, and Busan, South Korea stage the event from 16-25 February 2024.
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So what are the...
Team Event Cups
by courtesy of the ITTF
The World Table Tennis Championships 2024 events are...
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...
The following equipment is being used at the 2024 World Team Championships...
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And let's look at the...
The 2024 World Team Championships are being played as a single Division of 40 teams, with 8 groups of 5 teams each.
Each group of 5 teams will play a complete round robin competition (4 matches per team).
The order of play and the scheduling of the matches will try to avoid, whenever possible, the possibility of "predetermining" results so that all final round matches are significant for each competing team.
Following the completion of the round robin in each group, a single knockout will be played with the top 3 teams in each group progressing to the knockout phase (24 teams).
The winners of each group (8 teams) will be drawn into seeded positions for the round of 24 and each team will receive a bye.
The teams finishing 2nd in each group will be drawn into the opposite half of the respective group winners, and face a 3rd placed team in the round of 16 - with the restriction that teams having played against each other in the group stage, will not meet again in the first round of the knock-out competition.
The winning team will receive gold medals, the runner-up silver medals, and the two losing semi-finalists, bronze medals.
Seeding was based on the World Team Ranking published for January 2024. (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).
Seeding List Men's Teams | Seeding List Women's Teams | |
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1. China | 1. China | |
2. Germany | 2. Japan | |
3. South Korea | 3. Germany | |
4. France | 4. Chinese Taipei | |
5. Japan | 5. South Korea | |
6. Sweden | 6. Hong Kong China | |
7. Brazil | 7. Romania | |
8. Portugal | 8. France | |
9. Chinese Taipei | 9. Puerto Rico | |
10. Egypt | 10. Singapore | |
11. Hong Kong China | 11. Egypt | |
12. Slovenia | 12. Portugal | |
13. Croatia | 13. Slovakia | |
14. Australia | 14. Brazil | |
15. England | 15. USA | |
16. India | 16. Hungary | |
17. Belgium | 17. India | |
18. Poland | 18. Luxembourg | |
19. Denmark | 19. Thailand | |
20. USA | 20. Poland | |
21. Nigeria | 21. Austria | |
22. Romania | 22. Czechia | |
23. Singapore | 23. Sweden | |
24. Slovakia | 24. Italy | |
25. Iran | 25. Australia | |
26. Puerto Rico | 26. Canada | |
27. Czechia | 27. Malaysia | |
28. Canada | 28. Ukraine | |
29. Kazakhstan | 29. South Africa | |
30. Hungary | 30. Spain | |
31. Austria | 31. Nigeria | |
32. Chile | 32. Chile | |
33. Saudi Arabia | 33. Mexico | |
34. New Zealand | 34. Iran | |
35. Algeria | 35. Uzbekistan | |
36. Cuba | 36. Algeria | |
37. Serbia | 37. Croatia | |
38. Thailand | 38. Cuba | |
39. Madagascar | 39. Serbia | |
40. Malaysia | 40. Kazakhstan |
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Here are the...
China, Germany, South Korea, France, Japan, Sweden, Brazil, Portugal, Croatia, England, India, Australia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, Slovenia, Egypt, Belgium, USA, Poland, Denmark, Nigeria, Slovak Republic, Singapore, Romania, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Chile, Austria, Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Canada, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Algeria, Madagasca, Serbia, Malaysia, Thailand.
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China, Japan, Germany, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Hong Kong China, Romania, France, Hungary, Brazil, Slovak Republic, USA, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Singapore, Egypt, India, Luxembourg, Poland, Thailand, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Spain, South Africa, Nigeria, Chile, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Iran, Mexico, Algeria, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Croatia.
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So who were the...
The last World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 30 September to 9 October 2022 and the winners were...
China's men defeated Germany in the final, whilst China's women defeated Japan in the final.
China - Men's World Team Champions 2022China - Women's World Team Champions 2022
All the results for 2022 are here...
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And you can get all the results here for the...
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