Table Tennis Canada ( French: ''Tennis de Table Canada''), colloquially known as TTCAN, is the

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and is responsible for cataloging and sanctioning tournaments within Canada. It was founded in 1929 as the Canadian Table Tennis Association. In addition to processing tournaments, TTCAN maintains a national rating and ranking system. It also oversees the Canadian National Teams. In total, TTCAN has over 9,000 members. The headquarters of Canada Table Tennis is located in Ottawa,

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, which is also home to the Canadian Olympic Training Center.

History

The Canadian Table Tennis Association was formed in 1929, with Québec as the founding provincial member and Ontario joining 5 years later. A long association with the Canadian National Exhibition began in 1936, when the first Canadian Table Tennis Championships were staged there. The CTTA operates a computerized rating system that allows any competitive player to be ranked, both provincially and nationally Canada's table-tennis stars of the 1930s were Paul Chapdelaine and J.J. Desjardins of Montréal. In the 1970s, Violette Nesukaitis, of Toronto, emerged as a strong international player. Winner of 4 North American open championships, she travelled to China in 1971 on a Canadian team, the first table-tennis team to be invited to that country. In 1973 she was ranked 3rd among Commonwealth women players. She retired in 1976. In the 1990s. 2 world class players,

Geng Lijuan Geng Lijuan (; born January 15, 1963) is a Chinese-Canadian table tennis player. She is a four-time World Champion, former World #1 and member of the Chinese National Team. Geng retired from the Chinese national team before the 1988 Seoul Olymp ...

and Wenguan Johnny Huang, dominated Canadian table tennis. Both achieved top-10 world rankings and represented Canada at the Olympic Games in 1996 and

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. Their best results were recorded in 1996 at Atlanta; Huang defeated the number one seed and defending Olympic champion to finish fifth overall in the men's singles; Lijuan attained a ninth-place finish. She also won 4

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titles.

Members

* Alberta Table Tennis Association * British Columbia Table Tennis Association * Manitoba Table Tennis Association * Newfoundland & Labrador Table Tennis Association * Nova Scotia Table Tennis Association * Nunavut Table Tennis Association * Ontario Table Tennis Association * Prince Edward Island Table Tennis Association * Québec Table Tennis Association * Saskatchewan Table Tennis Association * Yukon Table Tennis Association * Table Tennis North

Canada Table Tennis National Teams

The rosters for the Canada Table Tennis National Teams are as follows: *

Eugene Wang Eugene Wang (born Wang Zhen 王臻 on November 13, 1985 in Shijiazhuang) is a Canadian table tennis player. He was given permission to compete for Canada in June 2012, allowing him to represent Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's tea ...

Pierre-Luc Thériault Pierre-Luc Thériault (born October 25, 1993, in St-Fabien, Quebec) is a Canadian table tennis player. Pierre-Luc Thériault wanted to represent Canada since watching the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and seeing other athletes proudly perform for t ...

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* Filip Ilijevski * Jeremy Hazin * Antoine Bernadet *

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* Zhang Mo *

Anqi Luo Anqi Luo (born August 26, 1996) is a table tennis player competing for Canada. She won a bronze medal in the women's doubles with Zhang Mo at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the mo ...

* Alicia Coté * Rachel Yi Lu * Ioulia Degtia * Amy J. Nichols * Sara Yuen * Justina Yeung

References

External links

TTCAN.ca CAN Table Tennis WebsiteCanadian Chinese Table Tennis AssociationOntario Table Tennis
{{Sports governing bodies of Canada National members of the North American Table Tennis Union

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 ...

Canadian table tennis organizations