Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Table tennis at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Peking University Gymnasium
Dates	August 13 to August 23, 2008
Competitors	171 from 56 nations
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Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Singles	men	women
Teams	men	women
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Peking University Gymnasium as the venue of the 2008 Summer Olympics

Inside the Peking University Gymnasium

Table tennis competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 13 to August 23, at the Peking University Gymnasium. The competition featured the team events for the first time, replacing the doubles events competed in previous games. A total of four sets of medals were awarded for the four events contested. China, as the host country, would win every medal possible, claiming the podium in both the Men's and Women's Singles events and claiming Gold in both the Men's and Women's Team Event, leading the IOC and ITTF, to change the qualification process for the 2012 Summer Olympics, to ensure that countries could only enter 2, instead of 3 athletes into the Singles event.

Qualification[]

Competition schedule[]

Participating nations[]

A total of 171 athletes (86 men and 85 women), representing 56 NOCs, competed in four events.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	2	2	8
2	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (4 nations)		4	4	4	12

Events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Ma Lin  China	Wang Hao  China	Wang Liqin  China
Men's team details	China (CHN) Ma Lin Wang Hao Wang Liqin	Germany (GER) Christian Suss Dimitrij Ovtcharov Timo Boll	South Korea (KOR) Oh Sang-Eun Ryu Seung-Min Yoon Jae-Young
Women's singles details	Zhang Yining  China	Wang Nan  China	Guo Yue  China
Women's team details	China (CHN) Guo Yue Wang Nan Zhang Yining	Singapore (SIN) Feng Tianwei Li Jiawei Wang Yuegu	South Korea (KOR) Dang Ye-Seo Kim Kyung-Ah Park Mi-Young

See also[]

• Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

References[]

External links[]

• Table Tennis Official Results Book. Official Report of the XXIX Olympiad. Digitally published by the LA84 Foundation.
• "2008 Olympic Games". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011.
• Table Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Olympedia.