Olympic table tennis teams confirmed for Tokyo

May 20, 2021
3:48 pm
Olympic Games

16 National Olympic Committees (NOC) have confirmed their men’s table tennis teams for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics whilst the women’s team will include 15 NOCs. A total of 93 players are set to contest both the men’s and women’s team event in the rescheduled summer games.

For the Men’s team event, Europe has the largest representation featuring Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Sweden, France, Portugal and Serbia.

Asia is a close second featuring China, Japan, Korea Republic, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong, China whilst Egypt, Brazil, USA and Australia will represent Africa, Latin America, North America and Oceania respectively.

In the Women’s team event, the NOCs in Asia will be represented by China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Korea Republic. The NOCs’ hopes’ in Europe for a medal in the women’s team event rest with Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Romania whilst Egypt, USA, Brazil and Australia will be the flagbearers for Africa, North America, Latin America and Oceania respectively.

Each NOC can nominate three athletes per qualified team, with two athletes permitted to compete in the singles event, at the discretion of the NOC. Details of the line-up for Mixed Doubles and Singles will be announced in June.

The rescheduled Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held from July 23 to August 8 with the Table Tennis competitions set to take place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium from 24 July to 6 August, 2021.

Men’s Team

Africa (1)

Egypt Omar ASSAR, Ahmed SALEH, Khalid ASSAR

Asia (5)

China MA Long, FAN Zhendong, XU Xin

Japan Tomokazu HARIMOTO, Koki NIWA, Jun MIZUTANI

Korea Republic YOUNGSIK Jeong, WOOJIN Jang, SANGSU Lee

Chinese Taipei LIN Yun-Ju, CHUANG Chih-Yuan, CHEN Chien-An

Hong Kong WONG Chun Ting, LAM Siu Hang, HO Kwan Kit

Europe (7)

Germany Dimitrij OVTCHAROV, Timo BOLL, Patrick FRANZISKA

Slovenia Jorgic DARKO, Tokic BOJAN, Kozul DENI