The Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships was born at a meeting of

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delegates in Munich at the 1969

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. Prior to inclusion in the

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proper in 2002, 15 Commonwealth Championships have taken place since 1971.

Venues

# 1971 —

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— Singapore Badminton Stadium (20 March to 25 March) # 1973 —

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— National Sports Centre (26 March to 1 April) # 1975 —

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...

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— Town Hall (25 January to 31 January) # 1977 — St Peter Port,

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— Beau Sejour Leisure Centre (16 March to 22 March) # 1979 —

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— Meadowbank Sports Centre (12 April to 18 April) # 1982 —

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— Temporary stadium on cricket pitch at Khar Gymkhana (3 February to 9 February) # 1983 —

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— Stadium Negara (17 April to 23 April) # 1985 —

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— Palace Lido Ballroom (17 March to 23 March) # 1989 —

— National Sports Centre (20 March to 26 March) # 1991 —

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— Moi International Sports Centre (14 April to 21 April) # 1994 —

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— Lal Bahadur Indoor Stadium (25 January to 1 February) # 1995 —

— Singapore Badminton Hall (21 April to 28 April) # 1997 —

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— Kelvin Hall (14 April to 20 April) # 2000 —

— Singapore Table Tennis Academy and Toa Payoh Sports Hall (11 February to 17 February) # 2001 —

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Hous ...

— Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium (14 April to 20 April) # 2004 —

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— Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium (21 June to 27 June) # 2007 —

Jaipur Jaipur (; Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country. Jaipur is also known a ...

— SMS Indoor Stadium (30 May to 5 June) # 2009 —

— Scotstoun Leisure Centre (19 May to 25 May) # 2013 —

— Thyagraj Indoor Stadium (5 May to 10 May) # 2015 —

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— Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Indoor Stadium (16 December to 21 December) #2019 —

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— Jawahar Lal Nehru Indoor Stadium (17 July to 22 July)

Winners

Gallery

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References

External links

ITTF DatabaseCommonwealth Table Tennis Federation Website

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 ...

Table tennis competitions Table tennis at the Commonwealth Games {{CommonwealthGames-stub

Venues

Winners

Gallery

See also

References

External links