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Table Tennis At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's Team
The men's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The event took place from 5 to 9 August 2024 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. This was the last appearance of the Men's team event before replaced by Men's doubles event. Marking the doubles events returned at LA 2028, for the first time since Athens 2004. Format Teams were made up of three players. Each team match was made up of five individual matches and ended when either side has won three matches. The order of a team match was as follows: a doubles match, two singles matches, and if neither side had won three matches by this point, a maximum of two extra singles matches were played. Qualification Schedule Draw The draw was held on 24 July 2024. Seeds The ITTF world team ranking published on 16 July 2024 was used for seeding purposes. Bracket Results ''All times are local (UTC+2 UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Dimitrij Ovtcharov () or Dmytro Ovtcharov (; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born. Since 2008, Ovtcharov has won a total of two silver and four bronze medals at the Olympics, making him second most decorated male Olympian in the table tennis category in terms of the number of medals awarded. Ranked first January to February 2018, he is ranked ninth in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) as of November 2022. Career At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ovtcharov won the silver medal as part of the German men's team, together with Timo Boll and Christian Süß. He used a special technique in his serves, which was later picked by ''Time'' magazine as one of the top 50 innovations of 2008. On 22 September 2010, Ovtcharov had been suspended by the German Table Tennis Federation (DTTB) due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Geraldo
João Pedro Ferreiro Geraldo (born 29 September 1995) is a Portuguese table tennis player from Mirandela, who currently plays for German club TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen and Greek club Panathinaikos (table tennis club), Panathinaikos. Together with Tiago Apolónia and Marcos Freitas, he won the gold medal in the men's team competition at the 2014 European Table Tennis Championships and at the 2015 European Games, inaugural European Games with Tiago Apolonia and Marcos Freitas. References Portuguese male table tennis players 1995 births People from Mirandela European Games gold medalists for Portugal European Games medalists in table tennis Living people Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games Sportspeople from Bragança District Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Portugal Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Portugal Mediterranean Games medalists in table tennis Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Panathinaikos table tennis players 21st-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiago Apolónia
Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia (born 28 July 1986) is a Portuguese table tennis player for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen and Portugal. As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eighteenth player in the world. Career Born in Lisbon, Apolónia began playing table tennis aged six at his hometown club Estrela da Amadora. As a youth player, he was crowned European Junior Doubles champion in 2004 and won a silver medal in the Doubles competition at the Junior World Championships in 2003, both partnering Marcos Freitas. After playing for German clubs TTC indeland Jülich, 1. FC Saarbrücken and TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen, he arrived at his current club TTC Neu-Ulm in 2019. In 2006, he won his first ITTF Pro Tour Doubles title in São Paulo, partnering João Monteiro. His first ITTF Pro Tour Singles title followed in October 2010 with the Austrian Open in Wels, where he beat Germany's Timo Boll in the final. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Freitas
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Chuang Chih-yuan
Chuang Chih-yuan (; born 2 April 1981) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He won the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2002 and doubles title at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships. He participated in the Summer Olympics six times, making the most appearances at the Olympic Games among Taiwanese athletes. Career in table tennis Chuang's parents were both table tennis players in Taiwan. His father was a national doubles champion, and his mother Lee Kuei-mei was a member of the national team. After the end of Lee's career as a player, her son, Chih-yuan, became one of her protégés in table tennis. Chuang started competing in 1989, at the age of eight. From the age of 13 his mother sent him to China for training several times. Chuang first made it to the Taiwan national team in 1998. In 1999, Chuang made his World Championships and ITTF Pro Tour debut. At the end of 2000, his mother decided to let Chuang train in Europe, including France and Germany. The process made his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kao Cheng-jui
Kao Cheng-jui ( born 25 December 2004) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. Career Kao was born in Taipei and began practicing table tennis in kindergarten. After graduating from elementary school, he moved to Kaohsiung to train at Chuang Chih-yuan's table tennis academy. In 2022, he won the silver medal in the U19 singles event at the Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships. In 2023, he reached men's singles final at the WTT Contender Lima, where he was defeated 1–4 by Marcos Freitas, finishing as the runner-up. Kao was also selected for the national team in the same year to participate in the 2023 Asian Championships, helping the men's team win a silver medal in the team event. In 2024, Kao helped the Chinese Taipei men's team defeat Germany in the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships, advancing to the semifinals and tying the team's best historical result. That same year, he qualified for the Paris Olympics as the second-highest-ranked Taiwanese male player. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Yun-ju
Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.Table Tennis LIN Yun Ju – Tokyo 2020 Olympics ''Tokyo 2020 Olympics''. Retrieved 30 July 2021. He is a left-handed player who plays with the shakehand grip. Career Lin began playing table tennis in third grade. He started competing on the (ITTF) senior circuit in 2016. At age 14, he officially became a member of the national team at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lim Jong-hoon
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Cho Dae-seong
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Jang Woo-jin
Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean table tennis player. Career Junior Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain Junior Open held in Manama, Bahrain. He won boys' singles title at the 2013 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. 2018 He won the gold medal in 2018 Korea Open held at Daejeon, South Korea without even having been a seeded player at the start of the tournament. He became the first-ever ITTF World Tour triple crown winner in this event as well by also winning gold medals in men's doubles and mixed doubles. 2020 In 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup, he was seeded at 12 and managed to reach up to semi-finals. Within a week from this world cup, in 2020 ITTF Finals, he was seeded at 14 and managed to reach semi-finals again. 2021 Jang Woojin represented South Korea at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after qualifying by virtue of being the highest ranked Korean player. In March, Jang played in the WTT S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroto Shinozuka
Hiroto Shinozuka (; born 23 December 2003) is a Japanese table tennis player. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ....https://olympics.com/en/athletes/hiroto-shinozuka References External links * Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Living people 2003 births Olympic table tennis players for Japan Japanese male table tennis players Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Japanese sportsmen World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |