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2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
The women's team tournament of the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held from 16 to 24 February 2024. China won the title for the 23rd time with a win over Japan. Format The 40 teams were drawn into eight groups of five teams. After a round robin in each group, the top team advanced to the round of 16, while the second and third-placed teams played in the round of 24, in the knockout stage. A team match consisted of five singles matches, where each singles match was decided in best-of-5 games. Qualification Number of teams eligible to compete for the trophy in each team event is 40. Continental Stage – 33 Teams will qualify from the Continental Stage. The Continental quota allocation is the following: 4 for Africa, 10 for Asia, 11 for Europe, 6 for PanAm, and 2 for Oceania. Numbers are according to the "2020 BoD Proposition 28". Host nation - is guaranteed. If the host nation is already qualified through the Continental Stage, the host quota will be reallocat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan Exhibition And Convention Center
Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (), commonly known as BEXCO (), is a convention center, convention and exhibition center located in Centum City, Haeundae-gu, Busan, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea. It features over 46,500 m2 of exhibition space and 53 meeting rooms. In June 2012, BEXCO completed its expansion to add a 4,002-seat auditorium and a new exhibition center. BEXCO has hosted a variety of events, notability as a concert venue for Koreans as well as international artists, such as Grammy Award winners Michael Bolton and Dr. Dre. Events * 2002 FIFA World Cup Group Draw : December 1，2001 * 2002 Asian Games and 2002 FESPIC Games International Broadcast Center and Main Press Center : 16 September to 28 October 2002 * 2004 Mariah Carey: Charmbracelet World Tour – 13 February 2004 * 2005 APEC Summit : 15 to 21 November 2005 * 2009 OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy : 27 to 30 October 2009 * 6th Busan International Motor Show : 24 May to 3 June 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Chengzhu
Zhu Chengzhu (; born 15 January 1997), also known as Zenobia Zhu, is a Hong Kong table tennis player. Biography Zhu was born in Houyangzhu, Tiantai County, Zhejiang. Her father Zhu Shike is a retired member of the Tiantai County table tennis team. Her father sent her to table tennis class when she 7 or 8 years old. Under her teacher Chu Jianwei. Shed moved to Hong Kong in 2015 and later joined Hong Kong table tennis team. In May 2021, the Hong Kong Table Tennis Association announced the Hong Kong team's roster for the Tokyo Olympics. Zhu Chengzhu became a backup player and went to Tokyo with the team. She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Championships in women's team event. In 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships she got a bronze medal after losing to Japan 3–0. She also represented Hong Kong in the 2024 Paris Olympics, competing in Table Tennis Women's Singles and Team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In South Korea
South Korea has one time zone, Korea Standard Time ( UTC+9), which is abbreviated KST. South Korea currently does not observe daylight saving time. From May 8 to October 9 in 1988, daylight saving time was tested to better accommodate the calendar of competitions held during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. History In 1434, inventor Jang Yeong-sil developed Korea's first automatic water clock, which King Sejong adapted as Korea's standard timekeeper. It is likely that Koreans used water clocks to keep time prior to this invention, but no concrete records of them exist. In 1437, Jang Yeong-sil, with Jeong Cho, created a bowl-shaped sundial called the ''angbu ilgu'' (), which King Sejong had placed in public so anyone could use it. In 1908, the Korean Empire adopted a standard time, GMT+08:30. In 1912, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Governor-General of Korea changed standard time to GMT+09:00 to align with Japan Standard Time. However, in 1954, the South Korean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Oceanian Table Tennis Championships
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
