Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team

Table tennis – men's team
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Table tennis – men's team; at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL London
Date	3 August to 8 August
Competitors	48 from 16 nations
Teams	16
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The men's team table tennis event will be part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event will take place from Friday 3 August to Wednesday 8 August 2012 at ExCeL London.^[1] The tournament will be a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists.

Qualification

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Dates^[2]	Start time	Round
3 August	19:00	First round
4 August	10:00	First round
5 August	10:00	Quarterfinals
6 August	14:30	Semifinals
8 August	11:00	Bronze medal match
8 August	15:30	Gold medal match

Seeds

Team ranking was based on the individual Ranking List of July 2012 but was taken into consideration only the players qualified from each team.^[1]^[3]

Rank	Team	Athletes (world ranking on 4 July)^[4]
1	China (CHN)	Zhang Jike (1)	Ma Long (2)	Wang Hao (4)
2	South Korea (KOR)	Joo Se-Hyuk (10)	Oh Sang-Eun (11)	Ryu Seung-Min (17)
3	Japan (JPN)	Jun Mizutani (5)	Koki Niwa (16)	Seiya Kishikawa (21)
4	Germany (GER)	Timo Boll (7)	Dimitrij Ovtcharov (12)	Bastian Steger (24)
5	Singapore (SIN)	Gao Ning (15)	Zhan Jian (25)	Yang Zi (54)
6	Hong Kong (HKG)	Jiang Tianyi (20)	Tang Peng (32)	Leung Chu Yan (35)
7	Austria (AUT)	Robert Gardos (29)	Chen Weixing (32)	Werner Schlager (47)
8	Portugal (POR)	Marcos Freitas (31)	Tiago Apolónia (34)	João Monteiro (39)
9	Russia (RUS)	Alexander Shibaev (29)	Kirill Skachkov (41)	Alexey Smirnov (46)
10	Sweden (SWE)	Jens Lundqvist (51)	Pär Gerell (80)	Jörgen Persson (90)
11	North Korea (PRK)	Jang Song-Man (59)	Kim Hyok-Bong (77)	Kim Song-Nam (181)
12	Brazil (BRA)	Gustavo Tsuboi (104)	Thiago Monteiro (126)	Hugo Hoyama (217)
13	Great Britain (GBR)	Paul Drinkhall (107)	Andrew Baggaley (133)	Liam Pitchford (143)
14	Egypt (EGY)	El-sayed Lashin (123)	Ahmed Saleh (157)	Omar Assar (209)
15	Canada (CAN)	Zhen Wang (113)	Pierre-Luc Hinse (305)	Andre Ho (393)
16	Australia (AUS)	William Henzell (130)	Justin Han (386)	Robert Frank (434)

Bracket

The draw for team events will take place at least two days prior to the first day of table tennis competition (28 July). Proposed date: 25 July 2012.^[5]

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold Medal Match

1

China (CHN)

TBD

3/4

TBD

3/4

TBD

Bronze Medal Match

TBD

2

South Korea (KOR)

References

^ ^a ^b "London 2012 Explanatory Guide: Table Tennis" (PDF). London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd. July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2012. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 64 (help)
^ "Table tennis competition schedule" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ "2012 Olympic Games Men's Team Seeding List" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ "ITTF World Ranking". ITTF. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ "Competition Format and Specific Regulations" (PDF). ITTF. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

External links

[London2012-1] "London 2012 Explanatory Guide: Table Tennis" (PDF). London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd. July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2012. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 64 (help)

[2] "Table tennis competition schedule" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[3] "2012 Olympic Games Men's Team Seeding List" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[4] "ITTF World Ranking". ITTF. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

[5] "Competition Format and Specific Regulations" (PDF). ITTF. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

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