Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Table tennis competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics will be held from August 13 to August 23, at the Peking University Gymnasium.

1 Events
2 Qualification
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 Teams

[edit] Events

4 sets of medals will be awarded in the following events:

Singles Men
Teams Men
Singles Women
Teams Women

[edit] Qualification

An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 3 women athletes in singles events and up to 1 men's and 1 women's team in teams events.

[edit] Singles

A total of 64 athletes will qualify for each singles event as follows:

20 - ITTF World Ranking as of January 2008
40 - Continental Qualifying system (Aug 2007 - April 2008):
- 6 - Africa
- 11 - Asia
- 11 - Europe
- 6 - Latin America
- 3 - North America
- 3 - Oceania
1 - Invitation Place
1 - Host Nation (CHN) direct entry (if not qualified through world ranking or continental qualifiers)
2 - Final World Qualifying Event (or 3 if CHN qualifies through world ranking or continental qualifiers)

[edit] Teams

A total of 16 teams will qualify for each teams event as follows:

6 - top team from each continent
1 - Host Nation (CHN) direct entry (if not qualified as top team from Asia)
9 - remaining selected teams (or 10 if CHN qualifies as top team from Asia)

Each team will consist of 3 players and they don't have to participate in singles events (there are additional athletes quota places for such players). Teams will be qualified after all singles qualification events, and the teams will be ranked according to the January 2008 ranking list, but the qualification will be awarded first to the teams with all 3 players qualified to the singles event, then to teams with 2 singles qualifiers, then to teams with 1 and finally to teams without singles qualifiers.

Events at the 2008 Summer Olympics (Beijing)