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Table Tennis At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Table tennis is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the sixth staging of table tennis at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 2002, and the second staging within England specifically. The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spread across eleven events (including four parasport events). Schedule The competition schedule is as follows: Venue The table tennis competitions are being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports - badminton, boxing, netball, para powerlifting, and weightlifting - will also take place there. Medal summary Medal table Medallists Para Qualification Table tennis A total of 160 players (80 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games. The majority achieved team qualification as follows: * The host nation. * Nations on the ITTF World Team Rankings as of 2 January 2020. * Recipients of CGF/ITTF Bipartite Invitations (one nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Exhibition Centre
The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is an exhibition centre located in Marston Green, Solihull, West Midlands, England. It is near junction 6 of the M42 motorway, and is adjacent to Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International railway station. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976. History The NEC was originally going to be built adjacent to the M1 motorway (junction 21) near Leicester but it was turned down by Leicestershire County Council with claims that "The big shows won't move away from London". The building was designed by Edward Mills. In November 1971, the Secretary of State for the Environment granted outline planning approval for the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. On 16 February 1973, then Prime Minister Edward Heath travelled up from London to cut a white ribbon and initiate its construction. The NEC was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 2 February 1976. Expansion of the complex The seventh hall of the NEC complex, a multi-purpose indoor arena n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's Singles C8–10
Table tennis men's singles C8–10 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ... is held at the National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham, England from 3 to 6 August 2022. Finals Group stage Group 1 Group 2 References External links Table Tennis resultsat Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 website – Select Filter by Event - Men's Singles Men's singles C8-10 {{DEFAULTSORT:Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games - Men's singles C8-10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeng Jian
Zeng Jian (, born 19 November 1996) is a Singaporean table tennis player. She won three Under-21 singles titles at the 2016 ITTF World Tour. Career In late 2014, Zeng registered with the Singapore Table Tennis Association with hopes to acquire Singaporean nationality and play for the Singapore national team. She acquired Singaporean nationality in November 2019. 2022 Zeng took part in the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham. She won two golds in the women's team and doubles events. In the singles event, she was leading 3 sets and eventually losing to compatriot Feng Tianwei 3-4 in all-Singapore final to claim the silver. She partnered Feng Tianwei to defeat the Australian duo Jee Minhyung and Jian Fang Lay 3-0 in the finals. At the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships at Chengdu, she led the team of Zhou Jingyi, Wong Xinru, Goi Rui Xuan and Zhang Wanling to top Group 4 by defeating Iran, Luxembourg & South Korea. The team qualifies to the knock-out rounds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feng Tianwei
Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month. Feng represented Singapore for the first time in the Olympic Games at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On 15 August 2008, the Singapore team comprising Feng and her teammates Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu defeated South Korea 3–2 in the semifinals. The team lost to China in the final, obtaining the silver medal. This was Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years and its first as an independent nation. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Feng defeated Kasumi Ishikawa of Japan 4–0 to win the table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, women's singles bronze medal, Singapore's first Olympic singles medal since the 1960 Summer Olympics. She would later won the bronze medal at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian, currently ranked at 39 in the world as of November 2022. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back Gold medals in 2018 & 2022 Commonwealth Games . In May 2019, Sathiyan attained his career best World ranking of 24 and became the first Indian paddler ever to break into the World Top-25 ITTF rankings. He became the first Indian paddler to sign a contract with Okayama Rivets for the Japanese T-league. He has currently signed up with JURA MOREZ for the French PRO-A league. He is an employee of ONGC & currently being supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. Achievements Sathiyan announced himself in the world stage in Table Tennis when he won the ITTF Challenge Belgium Open title in the men's singles category in September 2016. This was his first ITTF pro tour title. In the final match played at De Haa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Pitchford
Liam Benjamin Pitchford (born 12 July 1993) is a British table tennis player. He is sponsored by Victas. Career Pitchford began playing table tennis when he was eight years old. He won the British Home Countries Championship in 2009, and two Commonwealth Games medals in 2010 (Silver in Team and Bronze in Doubles). In the summer of 2011, he transferred to German club TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen in the top division, the Bundesliga, having played for second division club FC Tegernheim the previous season. From 2009 to 2010 Pitchford played for Aarhus BTK in the best Danish league. In July 2014, his contract with Ochsenhausen was extended by three years. In the autumn of 2011, he beat World number nine Vladimir Samsonov and World junior number three Wu Jiaji in international competitions, paving his route to becoming number one in the English rankings in November 2011. He finished the year with a career-high World ranking of 171 to become the third highest-ranked British player on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharath Kamal
Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian professional table tennis player. He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become ten times Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight-time National Champion Kamlesh Mehta. In 2019 he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award and in 2022, he was awarded the Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour. His ITTF world ranking is 32 . He beat Joo Se Hyuk and Chuang Chih-yuan, world no. 8 and 16 respectively in 2015 28th Asian cup at Jaipur. Sharath won the men's singles gold in the 16th Commonwealth table tennis championship held at Kuala Lumpur in 2004. He is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2004. He currently lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Over the past few years he has been playing in the European league. After stints in Spain and Sweden, he is currently playing in the German Bundesliga for the club Borussia Düsseldorf. He has won the US Open Table Tenni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weightlifting At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Olympic weightlifting, Weightlifting was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the nineteenth staging of weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1950, and the second staging within England specifically. The competition took place between 30 July and 3 August 2022, spread across sixteen weight classes (eight per gender). Schedule The competition schedule is as follows: Venue The weightlifting competitions will be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports - Badminton at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, badminton, Boxing at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, boxing, Netball at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, netball, Para powerlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, para powerlifting and Table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, table tennis - will also take place there. Qualification A total of 180 weightlifters (90 per gender) qualify to compete at the Games. Nations may e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Para Powerlifting At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Para powerlifting was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the sixth staging of para powerlifting at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 2002, and the second staging within England specifically. The competition took place on 4 August 2022, spread across four weight classes (two per gender). Schedule The competition schedule is as follows: Venue The para powerlifting competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports - badminton, boxing, netball, table tennis, and weightlifting - also took place there. Qualification A total of 40 powerlifters (20 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games. Nations earned two quotas per weight class, allocated as follows: * Athletes in the World Para Powerlifting (WPPO) Commonwealth Rankings as of 25 April 2022. * Recipients of a CGF/WPPO Bipartite Invitation. Medal summary Medal table Medalists References External links Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netball At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Netball is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham, England. This will be the seventh staging of netball at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1998, and the second staging within England specifically. The tournament is scheduled to take place between 29 July and 7 August 2022. Schedule The competition schedule for the netball tournament is as follows: Detailed fixtures were first released on 12 November 2021, then updated with the full complement of qualified teams on 4 March 2022. Venue The tournament was originally set to be held in Coventry Arena. However, the sport's heightened profile in light of England winning the 2018 tournament led to the National Exhibition Centre being chosen instead. Five other sports - badminton, boxing, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting - will also take place in the venue. Qualification Twelve nations from at least four CGF regions qualify for the netball tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Boxing is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham, England at the National Exhibition Centre Hall 4. It is one of the founding sports, having featured in every edition of the Games since the inaugural 1930 edition; the boxing competition will take place within England for the third time. The competition is scheduled to take place between 29 July and 7 August 2022, spread across sixteen events. Schedule The competition schedule is as follows: Venue The boxing competition will be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports - badminton, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting - will also take place there. Medal summary Medal table Medallists Men Women Participating nations There were 55 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGAs) in boxing with a total of 231 athletes (172 men and 59 women). The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badminton At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Badminton was one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the fifteenth staging of badminton at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1966, and the second staging within England specifically. The competition took place between 29 July and 8 August 2022, spreaded across six events. Schedule The competition schedule is as follows: Venue The badminton competition was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull. Five other sports – boxing, netball, para powerlifting, table tennis, and weightlifting – also took place there. Qualification (mixed team) All nations were able to enter whoever they wish (up to five men and five women overall) in the singles and doubles events. In addition, sixteen nations were also entitled to contest the mixed team event; subject to at least four CGF regions being represented and a minimum entry of two men / two women per team, they qualify as follows: * The host nation. * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
