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Table Tennis At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Singles
The women's singles table tennis event was a part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 1 August 2012 at ExCeL London. The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists. The draw was conducted on 25 July 2012. Qualification Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1 UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in: *Central European Time *West Africa Time *Western European Summer Time ** B ...). Seeds Seeds were based on the ITTF World Ranking lists published in July 2012. The top 16 seeded players qualified directly to the third round. # ''(final, silver medalist)'' # (champion, gold medalist) # ''(quarterfinals)'' # ''(semifinals, fourth place)'' # ''(quarterfinals)'' # ''(semifin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ExCeL London
ExCeL London (an abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London) is an exhibition centre, international convention centre and former hospital in the Custom House, Newham, Custom House area of London Borough of Newham, Newham, East London. It is situated on a site on the northern quay of the Royal Victoria Dock in London Docklands, located between Canary Wharf and London City Airport History The centre was designed by Moxley Architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine. It opened in November 2000. In May 2008 it was acquired by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company. Phase II of development, which included building London's first International Convention Centre (ICC) and creating an "eastern arrival experience", was completed on 1 May 2010 with Phase 3 expected to be completed by 2023/24. In 2015, CentrEd at ExCeL was opened, which expanded the centre's facilities to incorporate training and meeting space near the western entrance of the venue overlooking Royal Victoria Dock. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Yanfei
Shen Yanfei (; born December 24, 1979, in Hebei, China) is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Spain and resides in Cartagena, Murcia. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She also competed in the team competition. In May 2011 she qualified directly for the 2012 Summer Olympics. . ITTF. Career records Singles (as of July 6, 2013) * Olympics: round of 16 (2012). *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Póta
Georgina Póta (; born 13 January 1985 in Budapest) is a multiple European Champion table tennis player from Hungary. Career Póta was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest in 1985 and began practicing table tennis in 1990. Between 1994 and 2008 she played for Statisztika PSC in Hungary, subsequently she moved to TTC Berlin Eastside. For 1998 she already played in the Hungarian Top 12 and also participated at the Table Tennis European Youth Championships in Norcia, Italy, where she finished runner-up in the Girls' Cadet Doubles with Ildikó Csernyik. A year later she celebrated her first European Championship title after winning the Cadet Mixed Doubles event on the side of Dániel Zwickl. This was followed by other medals in the coming years, including three golds in the Junior category (women's doubles, team – 2001, Terni; women's singles – 2002, Moscow). Her first major senior success came in 2007, when she won gold medal in the team competition at the Table Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Silbereisen
Kristin Silbereisen (born March 14, 1985) is a German table tennis player. She currently plays for TTC Berlin Eastside. Career Silbereisen began playing table tennis when she was seven years old and started competing for DJK Ochtendung. As a Cadet and Junior, she won Team Gold at the European Youth Championships three times. Silbereisen made her first performance for the senior team on October 12, 2004 against Italy. Since then, she has won the bronze medal at the 2009 European Championships in the Doubles competition (partnering Zhengqi Barthel), the bronze medal at the 2010 World Table Tennis Championships with the German team, as well as the Team Bronze Medal at the 2007 European Championships. She won the German National Championships in Mixed doubles in 2005, partnering Christian Süss, and became German Singles Champion in 2010. In May 2011, she qualified directly for the London 2012 Olympic Games via her ITTF world ranking. Clubs * SV Winterwerb: until 2002 * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Jia
Liu Jia (Chinese: 刘佳; born 16 February 1982 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-born Austrian left-handed table tennis player. Early life From 1992 to 1995, Liu attended Shichahai Sporting High School in Beijing. Afterward she became a member of professional club Shian Nuntan, where she played with Zhang Yining. Despite Liu's successes as a Cadet and Junior, competition within the Chinese team was strong and prospects for a future international career were dim. Instead of following a call to Japan, Liu travelled to Austria when the opportunity arose to play for Austrian team Linz AG Froschberg. She arrived in March 1997 without speaking either German or English, but quickly learned German within the year that she settled in Austria. She won the first International Austrian Youth Championships soon after her arrival. On 16 February 1998, her 16th birthday, she became an Austrian citizen and a member of the Austrian table tennis squad. Husband David Arvidsson is an internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Yi-hua
Huang Yi-hua (; born 20 July 1984) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. Career records Singles *Olympics: round of 32 (2012). *World Championships: round of 32 (2009, 2013). *World Cup appearances: 1. Record: 9-12th (2010). *Asian Games: round of 16 (2002, 2006, 2010). *Asian Championships: round of 16 (2003, 05). *Asian Cup The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...: 5th (2010). Women's doubles *Olympics: round of 16 (2004). *World Championships: round of 16 (2003, 05, 11, 13). * Pro Tour winner (2): India Open 2010, Poland Open 2012. Runner-up (5): Japan Open 2010, 2013; China Open 2011, 2014; UAE Open 2013. * Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 7. Record: Runner-up (1): 2012 *Asian Games: SF (2006). Mixed doubles *World Championships: QF (2013). *Asian Championships: QF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ni Xialian
Ni Xia Lian (; born 4 July 1963) is a Chinese-born table tennis player who represents Luxembourg since 1991. She was born in Shanghai, and resides in Ettelbruck. Career Ni won team and mixed doubles gold medals for China in the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships. She moved to Germany in 1989 and settled in Luxembourg two years later. Her husband, Tommy Danielsson, is her coach and training partner. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She qualified for competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's singles competition. She lost 4–2 to 16-year-old Ariel Hsing from the US in the 2nd round in the London games. She competed for Luxembourg at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's singles competition. She lost 4–2 to Feng Tianwei of Singapore in the 3rd round. She was the flag bearer for Luxembourg during the closing ceremony. When she qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics at the age o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Dodean
Daniela Monteiro, née Dodean (born January 13, 1988 in Arad), is a Romanian professional table tennis player and European champion. She competed for Romania in the women's singles and team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the team and individual events at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Since 2011 she lives in Schwechat, Austria and practices at the Werner Schlager Academy. Personal life Her brother, Adrian, is also a table tennis player. In July 2013, she married Portuguese table tennis player João Monteiro. On 21 April 2015, she gave birth to a daughter, Lara Melissa, in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST .... References Romanian female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ri Myong-Sun
Ri Myong-sun (; born 26 January 1992) is a North Korean table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ... player. She competed for North Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London 2012 She went on to compete for North Korea again at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she beat Petrissa Solja of Germany in the third round of the women's singles. References Sportspeople from Pyongy ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Mi-Young
Park Mi-Young ( or ; born November 17, 1981 in Daegu, Republic of Korea) is a South Korean table tennis player. She was part of the table tennis team that won a bronze medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Park currently plays for the Samsung Life Insurance Table Tennis team and is ranked 24th in the world as of October 2011. She qualified directly for the 2012 Summer Olympics in May 2011. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the last 16 in the women's individual, and placed fourth with the South Korean women's team. Career records Singles (as of February 24, 2015) * Olympics: round of 16 (2008, 2012). *World Championships: round of 16 (2009). *World Cup appearances: 2. Record: 5-8th (2009, 10). * Pro Tour winner (2): Chile Open 2006; Japan Open 2009. Runner-up (1): Polish Open 2009. * Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 3. Record: QF (2009). * Asian Cup: 7th (2006). Women's doubles *World Championships: SF (2007, 09, 11). *Pro Tour winner (6): Swedish Open 2007; Brazil Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Qian (Polish Table Tennis)
Li Qian (born 30 July 1986 in Baoding) is a Chinese-Polish female table tennis player, who currently lives in Tarnobrzeg and represents the team of Siarka Tarnobrzeg. Career Li Qian became a naturalised citizen of Poland in November 2007. In early 2008, Li Qian became the first ever female Polish table tennis player to take part in the prestigious TOP-12 in Frankfurt am Main. She reached the final, losing to Li Jiao from the Netherlands. She competed for Poland at the Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. In May 2008, she was 26th in the world rank of the International Table Tennis Federation, and fifth in the European rank of the ITTF. In February 2009, she won the TOP-12 in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ..., defeating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Jie (table Tennis)
Li Jie (born 6 March 1984 in Chengdu, Sichuan) is a Chinese-born Dutch women table tennis player who now represents the Netherlands. She was born in Chengdu, and resides in Den Helder. She currently plays for Spanish team Club Cartagena. Career highlights ;Olympic Games: :2008, Beijing, team competition, 9th :2012, London, team competition, 5th :2008, Beijing and 2012, London, women's singles, round of sixteen ;World Championships: :2015, Suzhou, women's doubles, semi-final :2008, Guangzhou, team competition, 7th :2014, Tokyo, team competition, 5th :2011, Rotterdam and 2015, Suzhou, women's singles, round of sixteen ;European Championships: :2008, St. Petersburg, team competition, winner :2009, Stuttgart, team competition, winner :2011, Gdansk-Sopot, team competition, winner ;European Games: :2015, Baku, women's singles, runner-up :2015, Baku, team competition, runner-up ;Pro Tour Meetings: :2007, Velenje, women's doubles, semi final :2007, Stockholm, women's doubles, qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
