2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships
The 2012 Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships were held at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, Germany from March 25 to April 1, 2012.[1] It was the 51st edition to be contested.[2] 120 men's teams and 92 women's teams were allocated to different divisions according to the final ranking of the previous World Team Table Tennis Championships and the ITTF World Team Rankings.[3][4][5] The winner of the first division, called the Championship Division, was crowned as the new champion.
To be eligible to have a team entered for the team events in 2012 Summer Olympics, the ITTF member association must have participated in the tournament.[6] The ranking of the 2012 Championships was taken into account for the Olympic qualification after the final world Olympic qualification tournament, which was held from May 10 to May 13.
Seeding
The Championship Division comprised 24 teams. The top 18 teams of the Championship Division at the 2010 World Team Championships were guaranteed a spot in the championship division.[5] The top two teams of the Second Division in 2010 automatically advanced to the Championship Division in 2012. The other four spots were announced according to the ITTF World Team Rankings published in February, 2012.
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top eighteen in 2010[7] |
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| Top two of the 2nd Division in 2010 |  Serbia Slovenia |
 Sweden Turkey | ||||
| ITTF World Team Rankings (ranking in February)[8] |
 France (12) Greece (16) Denmark (20) Slovakia (21) |
 Czech Republic (14) Austria (19) Serbia (20) France (21) |
Medal summary
Events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team |
 ChinaMa Long Zhang Jike Wang Hao Xu Xin Ma Lin |
 GermanyTimo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Baum Bastian Steger Christian Süß |
 South KoreaJoo Se-Hyuk Ryu Seung-Min Oh Sang-Eun Kim Min-Seok Jung Young-Sik |
 JapanJun Mizutani Seiya Kishikawa Koki Niwa Kenji Matsudaira Maharu Yoshimura | |||
| Women's team |
China Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Guo Yan Li Xiaoxia Guo Yue |
 SingaporeFeng Tianwei Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Sun Beibei Yu Mengyu |
 Hong KongTie Ya Na Jiang Huajun Lee Ho Ching Ng Wing Nam Yu Kwok See |
| South Korea Kim Kyung-Ah Dang Ye-Seo Seok Ha-Jung Yang Ha-Eun Park Mi-Young |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Singapore | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
Results
Men's team
| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||
| China |
3 | ||||||||||||
 Poland |
1 | Austria |
0 | ||||||||||
| Austria |
3 | China |
3 | ||||||||||
| Hong Kong |
2 | South Korea |
0 | ||||||||||
 Chinese Taipei |
3 | Chinese Taipei |
1 | ||||||||||
| South Korea |
3 | ||||||||||||
| China |
3 | ||||||||||||
| Germany |
0 | ||||||||||||
| Japan |
3 | ||||||||||||
| Singapore |
3 | Singapore |
1 | ||||||||||
 Belarus |
1 | Japan |
1 | ||||||||||
 Portugal |
0 | Germany |
3 | Third Place | |||||||||
| Sweden |
3 | Sweden |
0 | South Korea |
X | ||||||||
| Germany |
3 | Japan |
X | ||||||||||
| Position 9–12 | Position 5–8 | ||||||||||||
| Poland |
1 | Hong Kong |
3 | Austria |
3 | Austria |
3 | ||||||
| Hong Kong |
3 | Belarus |
1 | Chinese Taipei |
0 | Sweden |
1 | ||||||
| Belarus |
3 | Poland |
1 | Singapore |
1 | Chinese Taipei |
3 | ||||||
| Portugal |
1 | Portugal |
3 | Sweden |
3 | Singapore |
2 | ||||||
Women's team
| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||
| China |
3 | ||||||||||||
| Poland |
3 | Poland |
0 | ||||||||||
 Romania |
2 | China |
3 | ||||||||||
 Netherlands |
3 | Hong Kong |
1 | ||||||||||
| Austria |
1 | Netherlands |
0 | ||||||||||
| Hong Kong |
3 | ||||||||||||
| China |
3 | ||||||||||||
| Singapore |
0 | ||||||||||||
| Japan |
2 | ||||||||||||
 Hungary |
0 | South Korea |
3 | ||||||||||
| South Korea |
3 | South Korea |
2 | ||||||||||
| Germany |
3 | Singapore |
3 | Third Place | |||||||||
 North Korea |
1 | Germany |
2 | Hong Kong |
X | ||||||||
| Singapore |
3 | South Korea |
X | ||||||||||
| Position 9–12 | Position 5–8 | ||||||||||||
| Romania |
2 | Austria |
0 | Poland |
1 | Netherlands |
0 | ||||||
| Austria |
3 | North Korea |
3 | Netherlands |
3 | Japan |
3 | ||||||
| Hungary |
0 | Romania |
1 | Japan |
3 | Poland |
2 | ||||||
| North Korea |
3 | Hungary |
3 | Germany |
0 | Germany |
3 | ||||||
References
- ↑ Competition schedule
- ↑ "ITTF Calendar". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ↑ "Mens' Teams List". ittf.com. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ↑ "Womens' Teams List". ittf.com. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "2012 World Team Playing System" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ↑ "Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ↑ "Final positions of the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships". ittf.com. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ↑ "ITTF World Team Ranking". ittf.com. Retrieved 26 March 2012.