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{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Table tennis

| games = 2012 Summer

| image = Table Tennis, London 2012.png

| image_size = 150px

| venue = ExCeL London

| dates = 28 July - 8 August 2012

| competitors = 174

| nations = 57

| prev = 2008

| next = 2016

}}

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Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place from Saturday 28 July to Wednesday 8 August 2012 at ExCeL London. 174 athletes, 86 men and 88 women, competed in four events.{{cite web |title=Olympic Table Tennis Press Kit |url=http://www.ittf.com/World_Events/2012OG/press_kit_ittf_OG2012.pdf |publisher=ITTF |access-date=21 July 2012}} Table tennis has appeared at the Summer Olympics on six previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Games in Seoul.{{cite news |title=London 2012 Olympics: table tennis guide |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/7904617/London-2012-Olympics-table-tennis-guide.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729171400/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/7904617/London-2012-Olympics-table-tennis-guide.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 July 2010 |access-date=3 May 2011 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=11 February 2011}} In addition to men's and women's singles, the team events were staged for the second time since replacing doubles events at the 2008 Beijing Games. China was the defending champion in each of the Olympic events having won all 4 gold medals in 2008.

Qualification

{{main|Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification}}

As hosts Great Britain qualified six athletes automatically; a team of three men, one of whom competed in the singles, and a team of three women, one of whom competed in the singles.{{cite web |url=http://www.ittf.com/World_Events/2012OG/Qual_system_OG2012_EN.pdf |title=Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad |date=23 June 2011 |publisher=ITTF |access-date=7 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611075035/http://www.ittf.com/World_Events/2012OG/Qual_system_OG2012_EN.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2012 |df=dmy-all}}{{cite web |title=Team GB take table tennis places for 2012 Olympics |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/table_tennis/9405490.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=3 May 2011 |date=4 March 2011}}

The top 28 male and top 28 female players on the International Table Tennis Federation's ranking list immediately after the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships, which finished on 15 May 2011 in the Netherlands, were qualified for the singles events at Games. No nation can have more than two players per gender in the singles events at the Games, so some players below 28th place were given a qualification berth based on their rankings.{{cite web |title=London 2012 Olympics qualifying: Table Tennis |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/table_tennis/9365973.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=3 May 2011 |date=18 January 2011}}

Ten continental qualification tournaments then were used to assign a total of 40 places between 28 June 2011 and 22 April 2012. A final qualification tournament took place on 12 May 2012 to assign a further two places per gender. One invitational place per gender was allocated by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

Entries for the team events were decided after the final qualification tournament ended on 13 May 2012. The highest-ranked nation at the 2012 World Team Championships from each of the six continents earned the right to enter as long as three of its players had met the qualification criteria for the singles event. Except for the host British team, the qualification of the other 15 NOCs was based on the number of the qualified players and the ranking of the 2012 World Team Championships.

Competition schedule

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style="background-color:#D0A9F5;text-align:center;" |PPreliminary rounds

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Final

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| style="text-align:left;" | Men's singles

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| style="text-align:left;" | Men's team

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| style="text-align:left;" | Women's singles

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| style="text-align:left;" | Women's team

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Participating nations

A total of 174 athletes (86 men and 88 women), representing 57 NOCs, competed in four events.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/counts/sport/TTN|title=Athlete count for Table Tennis|publisher=Olympedia|access-date=30 October 2021}}

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  • {{flagIOC|ARG|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|AUS|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|AUT|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|BLR|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|BEL|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|BRA|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|CMR|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|CAN|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|CHI|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|CHN|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|COL|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|CGO|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|CRO|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|CUB|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|CZE|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|DEN|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|DJI|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|DOM|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|EGY|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|FRA|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|GER|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|GBR|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|GRE|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|HKG|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|HUN|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|IND|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|IRI|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|ITA|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|JPN|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|KUW|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|LAT|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|LBN|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|LUX|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|MEX|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|NED|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|NGR|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|PRK|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|PAR|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|POL|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|POR|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|QAT|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|ROU|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|RUS|2012 Summer|5}}
  • {{flagIOC|SRB|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|SGP|2012 Summer|6}}
  • {{flagIOC|SLO|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|KOR|2012 Summer|7}}
  • {{flagIOC|ESP|2012 Summer|5}}
  • {{flagIOC|SWE|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|TPE|2012 Summer|3}}
  • {{flagIOC|THA|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|TOG|2012 Summer|1}}
  • {{flagIOC|TUR|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|UKR|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|USA|2012 Summer|4}}
  • {{flagIOC|VAN|2012 Summer|2}}
  • {{flagIOC|VEN|2012 Summer|1}}

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Medal summary

=Medal table=

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = flagIOC

| event = 2012 Summer

| team =

| gold_CHN = 4 | silver_CHN = 2 | bronze_CHN = 0

| gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 1 | bronze_JPN = 0

| gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 1 | bronze_KOR = 0

| gold_GER = 0 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 2

| gold_SIN = 0 | silver_SIN = 0 | bronze_SIN = 2

}}

=Events=

All events at the Games took the form of a knockout competition.

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=1}}
Men's singles
{{DetailsLink|Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's singles}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist |Zhang Jike|CHN|2012 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist |Wang Hao|CHN|2012 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist |Dimitrij Ovtcharov|GER|2012 Summer}}

Men's team
{{DetailsLink|Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team}}

|{{flagIOCteam|CHN|2012 Summer}}
Wang Hao
Zhang Jike
Ma Long

|{{flagIOCteam|KOR|2012 Summer}}
Oh Sang-eun
Joo Se-hyuk
Ryu Seung-min

|{{flagIOCteam|GER|2012 Summer}}
Timo Boll
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Bastian Steger

Women's singles
{{DetailsLink|Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's singles}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist |Li Xiaoxia|CHN|2012 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist |Ding Ning|CHN|2012 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist |Feng Tianwei|SIN|2012 Summer}}

Women's team
{{DetailsLink|Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team}}

|{{flagIOCteam|CHN|2012 Summer}}
Ding Ning
Li Xiaoxia
Guo Yue

|{{flagIOCteam|JPN|2012 Summer}}
Ai Fukuhara
Sayaka Hirano
Kasumi Ishikawa

|{{flagIOCteam|SIN|2012 Summer}}
Li Jiawei
Feng Tianwei
Wang Yuegu

See also

References

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External links

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  • {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130228084024/http://www.london2012.com/table-tennis/ |date=dmy |title=Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com.}}
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424194932/http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/sport/General/01/39/11/90/TTResultsBookV1_Neutral.pdf |date=dmy |title=Official results book – Table Tennis. London2012.com.}}
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001050747/http://www.ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2003&category=OG |date=dmy |title=International Table Tennis Federation: 2012 Olympic Games. ITTF.com.}}
  • {{SR/Olympics sport at games|sport=Table Tennis|archive=20160206075506}}

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