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Table Tennis At The 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's Doubles
These are the results of the men's doubles competition, one of two events for male competitors in table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Among 36 entries, eight seeded pairs were allocated into the draw of knockout A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ... stage which started from the round of 16. The rest 28 pairs were reduced to 24 pairs by four knockout matches. 24 pairs competed in eight groups of three pairs per group. Winners of each group advanced to the knockout stage. Seeds # ''(Final, silver medalists)'' # (Champions, gold medalists) # ''(Quarterfinals)'' # ''(Semifinals, bronze medalists)'' # ''(Quarterfinals)'' # ''(First round)'' # ''(Quarterfinals)'' # ''(Semifinals, fourth place)'' Qualification round The winners of each qualificatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Sports Centre
The State Sports Centre (known commercially as the Quaycentre) is a multi-use indoor arena in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and was opened in November 1984. With a total of 3,854 fixed and retractable seats the main arena is a focal point of the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre. An additional 1,152 portable seats can be accommodated on the floor level to bring seated capacity to 5,006. History Basketball and netball In 1986, Centre became home to Sydney's then two National Basketball League (NBL) teams, the Sydney Supersonics and West Sydney Westars. When they merged before the 1988 NBL season to form the Sydney Kings, the new team remained at the centre and would stay for two years before moving to the 12,000 seat Sydney Entertainment Centre (SEC) in 1990. The Centre then hosted local basketball until the formation of a new NBL team in 1998 called the West Sydney Razorbacks (later renamed the Sydney Spirit). The new club called the Centre home from 1998 until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörgen Persson
Jörgen Persson (born 22 April 1966, in Halmstad, Sweden) is a Swedish table tennis player. In two memorable World Table Tennis Championships finals he faced fellow Swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter. He also won four World Championship titles in Team. Persson represented Sweden in every Olympic Games from when table tennis was introduced into the Olympic program in 1988 until 2012. After the 2012 Olympics he officially retired. Along with Croatian Zoran Primorac and Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, he was the first table tennis player to have competed at seven Olympic Games. His game is based on a powerful backhand stroke and a regular forehand. His best Olympic result is a fourth place at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. See also * List of table tennis players * List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games A small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smalle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Arado
Rubén Arado (born 11 October 1970) is a Cuban table tennis player. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References 1970 births Living people Cuban male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Cuba Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games 20th-century Cuban people {{Cuba-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Arado
Francisco Arado de Armas (born 30 December 1971) is a Brazilian-Cuban table tennis player. He competed in the men's singles event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References 1971 births Living people Cuban male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Cuba Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Table tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games 20th-century Cuban people {{Cuba-tableten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Plumb
Jeff Plumb (born 6 October 1974) is an Australian table tennis player. He competed in the Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, men's doubles event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1974 births Living people Australian male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Australia Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Canberra {{Australia-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Clarke (table Tennis)
Brett Clarke (born 27 October 1972) is an Australian Olympic 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 from Melbourne. He won the silver medal at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games in the Mixed Doubles event. He was appointed as head coach of the Australian men's table tennis team in 2017. References 1972 births Living people Olympic table tennis players for Australia Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Australian male table tennis players 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Oulami
Farid Oulami (born 7 August 1974) is an Algerian table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * 1974 births Living people Algerian male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Algeria Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Algerian sportsmen {{Algeria-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kaci
David Kaci (born 25 August 1974) is an Algerian table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * 1974 births Living people Algerian male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Algeria Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Algerian sportsmen {{Algeria-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Kawai
Carlos Issamu Kawai (born July 30, 1969) is a Brazilian table tennis player. He competed in men's singles and men's doubles with Claudio Kano at the 1988 Summer Olympics and men's doubles with Hugo Hoyama at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * * * * 1969 births Living people Brazilian male table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Brazil Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Brazilian people of Japanese descent Table tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games Table tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Hoyama
Hugo Hoyama (born May 9, 1969) is a retired Brazilian table tennis player of Japanese origin who has won several medals in single, double and team events in the Latin American Table Tennis Championships. Along with Gustavo Tsuboi and Thiago Monteiro, Hoyama was part of the winning team at the 2007 Pan American Games and 2011 Pan American Games. Career Born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Hoyama broke the Brazilian record of most gold medals in the Pan American Games, which used to belong to the Brazilian swimmer Gustavo Borges and participated in every Olympic game since debuting as an Olympian at the 1992 Olympic Games and competed in the 2012 Olympic Games, where he plans to retire as an Olympian. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, reaching the round of 16 and finishing in ninth place in the competition, beating world champion Jorgen Persson of Sweden along the way, Hoyama posted the best result in Brazilian tennis table history at the Olympics. He was only surpa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryu Seung-min
Ryu Seung-min (; born August 5, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao, a top-seeded player from the Chinese national team. Along the way, he defeated 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner with 4–1. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics he was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze and silver medals respectively. Ryu is ranked twenty-fifth in the world as of July 2013. In 2016, Ryu became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), he was a member and Chair of the Athletes' Commission of the South Korean National Olympic Committee from 2016 to 2019. Since 2018, he counts among the ITTF Foundation Ambassadors, promoting sport for development and peace. In March 2022, Ryu signed with World Star Entertainment. Style Ryu Seung-min plays penhold style. Unlike players like Ma Lin and Wang Hao, Ryu never uses the backside of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
