Olympics table tennis results. Table tennis. Participants in table tennis games

Table tennis is a game the essence of which is throwing a special celluloid ball over a net stretched over a special table. The table measures 9 x 5 feet (2.74m x 1.525m) and is 30 inches (76 cm) high.

There are many famous personalities among table tennis fans - Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Blair, Lech Walesa, Luciano Pavarotti, Sergei Kiriyenko, Viktor Chernomyrdin and even Mao Zedong. And singer Anne Veski once became the Estonian table tennis champion.

OLYMPIC GAMES

Table tennis competitions in singles and doubles first appeared in the Olympic Games program in 1988 in Seoul. The team event replaced the doubles event at the 2008 Beijing Games.

RUSSIA

At the Olympic level, Russian players have not yet achieved any noticeable results.

Photo - Sergey Kivrin and Andrey Golovanov

Table tennis is a game the essence of which is throwing a special celluloid ball over a net stretched over a special table. The table measures 9 x 5 feet (2.74m x 1.525m) and is 30 inches (76 cm) high. The ball is thrown using wooden rackets coated with rubber on both sides. The ball must be painted white or orange. Each play of the ball ends with the assignment of one point to one or another player (team). According to modern international rules, established in 2001, each game goes to 11 points. The player also earns a point if his opponent made one of the mistakes. These include: not hitting the ball; incorrectly executed serve; hitting the ball twice on your side of the table; the ball falling to the striker's side after being hit; hitting the ball before it lands on the player's side of the table; touching the ball with the racket and wrist; touching the table surface with your free hand or moving the table.

OUR DREAM IS TO PERFORM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES!

Olympics 2016

Day 4 of the team tournament

Table tennis champions and prize-winners became known Olympic Games 2016 among women. On July 16, the match for third place and the final took place. Tennis players from Japan and Singapore competed for bronze. For gold - China and Germany. The results of these matches were, in general, as predicted.

Day 3 of the team tournament

Coming to the end of the competition table tennis in Rio de Janeiro. On July 15, semi-final matches for men and women were played, which means that the teams that will compete for Olympic gold among themselves have been determined. Almost all participants in the finals are from Asia. Today, one might say, the last European page in the history of table tennis at the 2016 Olympics was written. From this day begins the triumph of Asian athletes.

Day 2 of the team tournament

On Olympics in Brazil only representatives of Eurasian table tennis remained. All other continents - America, Africa and Australia - lost their athletes, although some of them showed a very bright and meaningful game. Cm. .

Day 1 of the team tournament

The command part has begun table tennis competition in men and women. By this hour, the women had completed one-eighth of the finals (the first stage) and half of the quarter-final matches. Men finish one-eighth. There are a total of 16 teams in each part of the tournament. Not every country that has fielded tennis players has the right to compete here. Continents fought for quotas before the Olympics, and now Rio de Janeiro Representatives came from all over the world.

The dominance of table tennis is again visible

The Olympic Games are the largest sporting competitions of our time, held every four years. They occupy a prominent place in the social life of the planet, contributing to the strengthening of cooperation and the prestige of physical culture and sports. "Citius, altius, fortius!" (“Faster, higher, stronger!”) - this is the motto of the Olympic Games. It reflected the eternal desire of humanity for progress and the development of natural abilities. Participation in the Olympic Games is considered an important and honorable matter. Olympic champions have always been national heroes of their countries.

In its almost century-long history, table tennis relatively recently became an Olympic sport. By the decision of the 79th session of the International Olympic Committee in 1977 (Prague), table tennis was included in the family of Olympic sports, and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was recognized as the federation governing the sport and meeting all the criteria of the Olympic Charter. Only some time later, at the 1981 IOC Congress in Baden-Baden, it was decided to include table tennis in the program of the 1988 Olympic Games in four types of individual competitions: men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles.

Since 1988, table tennis has been regularly included in the programs of the Summer Olympic Games, which has given a strong impetus to the development of the game (see Appendix 3 for results). Most sports leaders in highly developed countries have paid attention to table tennis as a medal-winning sport. The requirements for the quality of training of athletes, methods and means of training have increased. The quality of inventory has improved significantly. The strongest Chinese tennis players are invited to many countries around the world for joint training, as well as highly qualified Chinese coaches to work with national teams.

In a number of countries, sports leaders have taken the path of inviting leading tennis players - representatives of countries leading in modern table tennis (China, Korea, Thailand, etc.) for permanent residence in order to include them in their national teams. Germany has chosen a different strategy: leading foreign tennis players are invited to participate in domestic competitions in order to improve their playing level, and their athletes are entered into international competitions.

As the results of the World Championships and Olympic Games of the last twenty years show, the leading positions in all categories are occupied by tennis players from East Asian countries, and athletes from the PRC are in first place (Table 2.3).

In all five Olympics, small racket masters from Southeast Asia demonstrate their high skills. They win more Olympic medals than all Europeans. Thus, at the XXIV Olympic Games in 1988 in Seoul, among men, only the Swede E. Lindh won a bronze medal. Yeo Nam-kyu won the gold medal and Kim Ki-taek won the silver, both from South Korea. Gold medals in men's doubles went to Chinese tennis players Chen Longkang and Wei Kuingzhuang, silver to Yugoslavs Ile Lupulescu and Zoltan Primorac, and bronze went to Koreans Yo Nam Kyu and Ehn Jae Hyung.

For women, all the medals in the singles competition were won by the Chinese: Chen Jin won gold, Li Haifeng won silver and Zhao won bronze. Jimin. In doubles, Koreans Yang Young Ya and Hyun Zhang Hua won gold, Chinese women Zhao Jiming and Chen Jin won silver, and Yugoslav tennis players Jasna Fazilic and Gordana Perkusin won bronze.

Soviet table tennis was represented by V. Popova, F. Bulatova, G. Melnik, A. Mazunov, V. Dvorak. F. Bulatova and V. Popova managed to pass the East Asian barrier and showed a relatively high result, entering the top six athletes of the Olympic Games in the women's singles (F. Bulatova - 5th place, V. Popova - 6th place), bringing the team the country's team points.

At the XXV Summer Olympic Games in 1992, the experienced Swedish tennis player, world champion Jan-Ove Waldner, put up worthy resistance to the masters of the Asian school - he won gold in the men's singles. Second place goes to the Frenchman Jean-Paul Gaultien. However, the Chinese and Korean athletes received bronze.

The women's singles final turned out to be Chinese, just like four years ago. Deng Yaping won gold, Zhao Hong won silver, and Korean Lee Boon Hugh won bronze. In the men's doubles competition, Lu Liying - Wang Tao (China) won gold, German tennis players Stefan Fetzner-Jörg Rosskopf won silver, and Korean tennis players Kang Hee Chang-Lee Chul Seun and Kim Soo - Yo Nam Kyu won bronze. In women's doubles, all medals were won by Asian tennis players. First place went to Chinese women Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong, 2nd place also went to Chinese women Chen Zih - Gao Zhong, and 3rd place was shared by Koreans Lee Boon Hugh - Yu Sun Bok and Hong Cha Ok - Hyun Zhang Hua.

The right to participate in these Olympic Games, having played in a series of international tournaments, was won in the individual singles by the brothers A. and D. Mazunov, M. Shmyrev, and for women - the veteran of our team, Honored Master of Sports V. Popova, G. Melnik and E. Timina. The Mazunov brothers were allowed to participate in the men's doubles and Popova-Melnik and Palina-Timina in the women's doubles. We failed to show results in singles, but all three of our pairs made it into the top eight.

At the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, the men's singles final turned out to be Chinese: Liu Gualiang won gold, Wang Tao won silver, and the German athlete Jörg Rosskopf won the bronze award in a bitter struggle. In women's singles, tennis players from China and Taiwan were again the winners.

In doubles, as at the previous Games, Asian athletes won medals of all merits - both men and women, once again proving the advantages of the Asian school of play. For men, the Chinese pair Kong Linghua - Liu Guoliang won gold, the Chinese pair Liu Ling-Wan Tao also won silver, and the Koreans Lee Chul Seun - Yeo Nam Kyu won bronze. For women, Chinese pair Deng Yaping - Kuao Hong won gold, Chinese pair Li Wei - Kuao Yongping won silver, Korean tennis players Pak Nai-jung won bronze.

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Our country was represented at these Olympic Games by D and A. Mazunov, G. Melnik and I. Palina.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney (Australia), competitions were held in 28 sports, including table tennis. Of the 200 countries that took part in the Games, 48 ​​countries sent their athletes to the table tennis tournament in which 171 athletes took part (in total, over 10,000 Olympians competed in Sydney). At these Olympic Games, Russia was represented only by the women's team - it managed to win tickets to the Olympics. According to the regulations, three tennis players, men and women, could take part from each country. G. Melnik, I. Palina and O. Kushch spoke from Russia. G. Melnik and I. Palina showed their best in the preliminary individual singles competitions and reached the Final group, where 32 tennis players from 17 countries continued to fight for gold, and only 12 of them were representatives of European countries. Athletes of Chinese origin played for the USA and New Zealand, for Germany and Luxembourg.

All of the four possible gold medals in the disciplines being played out, as at the previous Olympic Games in Atlanta, went to the Chinese “small racket” masters. In the men's singles final, 34-year-old Swedish table tennis veteran and 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner lost in a bitter fight to rising Chinese table tennis star Kong Linghua.

For women, Asians again had no equal. In the women's singles final, Chinese Wang Nan confidently beat her compatriot Li Jiu and became the winner of the Games.

At the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games in 2004, which in honor of the centenary of the modern Olympics were held in Af They won the right to represent the Russian national team in the network of qualifying competitions: in the individual singles - Muscovite E. Fadeev and S. Ganina from Nizhny Novgorod; in men's doubles - A. Smirnov - D. Mazunov; in women's doubles S. Ganina - I. Palina and G. Melnik - O. Fadeeva. And again, in the final stage of the Olympic tournament, Chinese and Korean tennis players shared the medals.

In the men's doubles, the Russian pair D. Mazunov - A. Smirnov achieved, however, unprecedented success - they entered the four strongest Olympic pairs, stubbornly losing bronze with a score of 2: 4 to tennis players from Denmark.

The Olympic Games are not only a certain stage in the formation and development of table tennis, but also a criterion for assessing the technical and tactical skills of athletes and the balance of power on the world stage, where the advantage today is on the side of East Asian tennis players.

Maria Dolgikh, in the second - Polina Mikhailova, and only Alexander Shibaev played two games of the second and third rounds at the Olympic site in Rio de Janeiro, where he was stopped by the German leader Timo Boll with a score of 4:3.

Since the Russian men's and women's table tennis teams did not take place, it is already possible to leave the Olympic village. Without waiting for personal finals - for women on August 10, for men - on August 11. And the team competition began on August 12.

In the individual Olympic tournament, the players from the fourth round are partially determined - the game for reaching the quarterfinals. Due to the large time difference, there is confusion in the dates. What number should be entered - local (Brazilian) or European (Moscow, for example).

Although it doesn’t matter to Russian table tennis athletes. They performed as best they could. We were Olympians. Dolgikh and Mikhailov - for the first time, Shibaev for the second time after, where he also remained in the third round of the personal tournament.

He also performed in the team (last 9-16 places). Our women failed to form an Olympic table tennis team for the third time in a row (2008, 2012 and 2016).

Previously, the Summer Olympics had individual and doubles competitions from 1988-2004. That is, any first Russian women's team will debut at the Olympic Games.

Just not today.

August 6-7, 2016, Rio de Janeiro. The first, second and third rounds of the individual table tennis tournament at the Olympic Games in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, August 5-21, 2016). From top to bottom: No. 23 Shibaev Alexander, Russia, No. 38 Mikhailova Polina, Russia, No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine, No. 93 Privalova Alexandra, Belarus, No. 75 Dolgikh Maria, Russia.

TABLE TENNIS

Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

MEN

No. 1 Ma Long, China - No. 12 Jeong Youngsik, South Korea

No. 13 Timo Boll, Germany - No. 40 Aruna Quadri, Nigeria

No. 11 Freitas Marcos, Portugal - No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine

No. 6 Mizutani Jun, Japan - No. 54 Calderano Hugo, Brazil

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

MEN (1-16, seeded 3rd round)

No. 1 Ma Long, China - No. 29 Groth Jonathan, Denmark 4:0

No. 12 Jeong Youngsik, South Korea - No. 48 Pitchford Liam, England 4:1

No. 13 Timo Boll, Germany - No. 23 Shibaev Alexander, Russia

(4-3) 12:14, 11:4, 7:11, 11:7, 10:12, 12:10, 11:6

No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine- No. 17 Gauzy Simon, France 4:1

No. 6 Mizutani Jun, Japan - No. 25 Gionis Panagiotis, Greece 4:1

No. 5 Ovtcharov Dimitrij, Germany - No. 28 Li Ping ^, Qatar

No. 9 Samsonov Vladimir, Belarus- №27 Karlsson Kristian, Sweden

No.4 Zhang Jike, China - No.33 Chen Chien-An, Taipei

MEN (17-32, seeded in 2nd round)

No. 48 Pitchford Liam, England - No. 238 Kenzhaev Zohid, Uzbekistan 4:1

No. 23 Shibaev Alexander, Russia- №52 Dyjas Jakub, Poland

(4:0) 11:9, 11:8, 11:8, 11:9

No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine- №55 Assar Omar, Egypt 4:3

#28 Li Ping^, Qatar - #84 Pattantyus Adam, Hungary 4:0

MEN (33 and below, seeded in 1st round)

No. 84 Pattantyus Adam, Hungary - No. 171 Gerasimenko Kirill, Kazakhstan 4:1

MEN (33 and below, seeded in preliminary round)

12 athletes

WOMEN

No.2 Ding Ning, China - No.22 Doo Hoi Kem, Hong Kong

No.7 Han Ying^, Germany - No.53 Li Xue^, France

No. 11 Jeon Jihee^, South Korea - No. 13 Yu Mengyu, Singapore

No. 41 Chen Szu-Yu, Taipei - No. 50 Kim Song I, North Korea

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

WOMEN (1-16, seeded 3rd round)

#13 Yu Mengyu, Singapore - #128 Lay Jian Fang, Australia 4:0

No. 41 Chen Szu-Yu, Taipei - No. 23 Hu Melek, Türkiye 4:0

#50 Kim Song I, North Korea - #6 Kasumi Ishikawa, Japan 4:3

No.5 Li Xiaoxia, China - No.43 LI Fen^, Sweden

No. 43 Lee Ho Ching, Hong Kong - No. 49 Bilenko Tatyana, Ukraine

No. 10 Cheng I-Ching, Taipei - No. 57 Pavlovich Victoria, Belarus

No. 8 Ai Fukuhara, Japan - No. 58 Monteiro Dodean Daniela, Romania

WOMEN (17-32, seeded 2nd round)

No. 128 Lay Jian Fang, Australia - No. 55 Polcanova Sofia, Austria 4:2

No. 41 Chen Szu-Yu, Taipei - No. 93 Privalova Alexandra, Belarus 4:2

No. 57 Pavlovich Victoria, Belarus- No. 38 Mikhailova Polina, Russia

(4-2) 9:11, 8:11, 11:9, 13:11, 11:7, 11:8

WOMEN (33 and under, seeded in 1st round)

No. 139 Gui Lin, Brazil - No. 92, Spain 2:4

No. 128 Lay Jian Fang, Australia - No. 75 Dolgikh Maria, Russia

(4-3) 11:6, 11:7, 8:11, 6:11, 12:10, 8:11, 11:5

No. 93 Privalova Alexandra, Belarus- №282 Shahsavari Neda, Iran 4:3

No. 57 Pavlovich Victoria, Belarus- №220 Edem Offiong, Nigeria 4:1

WOMEN (33 and below, seeded in preliminary round)

Table tennis at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro

Photo: TEH ENG KOON / AFP

A game that is called a board game, but requires skill and dexterity, as well as high reaction speed and mastery of technology? Table tennis , which is also called ping pong. This is a sport that requires a special table, a celluloid ball and rackets. Players throw the ball, hitting it according to the rules accepted in this sport. If the opposing team hits the ball with an error or misses a serve, it is counted as a point. The game is played to eleven points.

Participants in table tennis games

Table tennis competitions will be held at the Summer Olympics. Participants - 172 athletes from all over the world. There will be an equal number of men and women: 86 people each. One country can submit no more than six athletes (of which no more than three men and no more than three women).

Russian table tennis athletes participate in individual championships, but the country did not qualify for team games. Traditionally, Chinese athletes have been the leaders of table tennis competitions over the past decades. They will also come to the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.

Qualifying selection is made based on the International Table Tennis Federation ranking. Quotas will go to 44 players. Another 40 quotas will be distributed when the qualifying tournament ends on each continent. Brazil, as the host country, receives an additional quota. If necessary, the remaining places for the Summer Olympic Games will be distributed by a tripartite commission.

Competition qualifications and championships will be held in singles and team categories. The Olympic program includes both men's and women's singles and doubles table tennis. Table tennis entered the official Olympic program in 1988, and was first demonstrated at the Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Table tennis competition calendar

Competitions in this discipline of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be held from August 6 to 17 in the third pavilion of Riocentro.

Singles:

• August 6. Women: preliminary round, round 1, round 2. Men: preliminary round, round 1.
• August 7. Women: round 2, round 3. Men: round 2, round 3.
• 8 August. Women: round 3, round 4. Men: round 3, round 4.
• August 9. Women: quarterfinals. Men: quarterfinals.
• 10th of August. Women: semi-final, final, fight for 3rd place.
• 11th August. Men: semi-finals, competition finals, fight for 3rd place.

Team Championship:

• 12th of August. Women: Round 1 (8 matches). Men: round 1 (4 matches).
• August 13. Women: quarterfinals. Men: round 1 (4 matches).
• August 14. Women: semi-final. Men: quarterfinals.
• August 15. Women: semi-final. Men: semi-final.
• August 16. Women: final, match for 3rd place.