Table tennis at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates	24 July – 6 August 2021
No. of events	5
Competitors	173 from 57 nations
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Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Singles	men		women
Doubles		mixed
Teams	men		women
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Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (postponed to 2021 ^[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic) featured 173 table tennis players. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on eight previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Qualification

As the host nation, Japan had automatically qualified six athletes; a team of three men and women with one each competing in the singles as well as a mixed doubles team. ^[2]

For the team events, 16 teams were qualified. Each continent (with the Americas being divided into North America and South America for ITTF competition) had a qualifying competition to qualify one team. Nine teams qualified through a world qualifying event. ^[2]

The mixed doubles also had 16 pairs qualify. Each continent (with the Americas being divided into North America and South America for ITTF competition) had a qualifying competition to qualify one pair. Four teams qualified through the World Tour Grand Finals 2019 and five through the World Tour 2020. Japan was also guaranteed a place. If an NOC had both a mixed doubles pair and a team in one or both genders qualify, the doubles player must be a member of the team in their gender. ^[2]

For individual events, between 64 and 70 individual players qualified. Each NOC with a qualified team were permitted to enter two members of that team in the individual competition. 22 quota places would be awarded through continental championships to individuals who belong to an NOC without a qualified team. There would be one Tripartite Commission invitation place. The remainder of the total 172 quota places would be filled through a final world singles qualifying tournament (no less than two and no more than eight qualifiers) and then the ITTF world ranking. ^[2]

Competition schedule

Participating nations

A total of 173 athletes (85 men and 88 women), representing 57 NOCs, competed in five events. ^[3] One Czech athlete tested positive for COVID-19 and withdrew from the Games. ^[4] Two NOCs (China and Hungary) replaced injured athletes with reserves in the team event. ^{[5] [6]}

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Japan)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	4	3	0	7
2	Japan*	1	1	2	4
3	Germany	0	1	1	2
4	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Ma Long   China	Fan Zhendong   China	Dimitrij Ovtcharov   Germany
Men's team details	China Fan Zhendong Ma Long Xu Xin	Germany Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Franziska Timo Boll	Japan Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Tomokazu Harimoto
Women's singles details	Chen Meng   China	Sun Yingsha   China	Mima Ito   Japan
Women's team details	China Chen Meng Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu	Japan Mima Ito Kasumi Ishikawa Miu Hirano	Hong Kong Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching Minnie Soo
Mixed doubles details	Japan Jun Mizutani Mima Ito	China Xu Xin Liu Shiwen	Chinese Taipei Lin Yun-ju Cheng I-ching

See also

• Table tennis at the 2018 Asian Games
• Table tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
• Table tennis at the 2019 European Games
• Table tennis at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

References

External links

• Results Books : Tokyo 2020. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. (2021).
• Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. ITTF.
• Table Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Olympedia.