Table tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics – Men's team – Class 8

Table Tennis - Men's Teams 8 at the XII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Table Tennis
Venue	Galatsi Olympic Hall
Dates	23–27 September
Competitors	7
Medalists
Nico Vergeylen Mathieu Loicq Marc Ledoux   Belgium   Alain Pichon Michel Schaller Julien Soyer   France   Richard Csejtey Miroslav Mitas   Slovakia

Table tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Singles
Men			Women
	C1			C1–2
	C2
	C3			C3
	C4			C4
	C5			C5
	C6			C6–8
	C7
	C8
	C9			C9
	C10			C10
Teams
Men			Women
	C1–2			C1–3
	C3
	C4			C4–5
	C5
	C6–7			C6–10
	C8
	C9
	C10

The Men's Teams 8 table tennis competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was held from 23 to 27 September at the Galatsi Olympic Hall.^[1]

Classes 6–10 were for athletes with a physical impairment who competed from a standing position; the lower the number, the greater the impact the impairment had on an athlete’s ability to compete.

The event was won by the team representing Belgium. ^[2]

Results

Preliminaries

Group A

Rank	Competitor	MP	W	L	Points		FRA	SVK	RSA
1	France	2	2	0	6:0		x	3:0	3:0
2	Slovakia	2	1	1	3:3		0:3	x	3:0
3	South Africa	2	0	2	0:6		0:3	0:3	x

Group B

Rank	Competitor	MP	W	L	Points		BEL	CHN	ESP	CZE
1	Belgium	3	2	1	7:3		x	3:0	1:3	3:0
2	China	3	2	1	6:4		0:3	x	3:0	3:1
3	Spain	3	2	1	6:4		3:1	0:3	x	3:0
4	Czech Republic	3	0	3	1:9		0:3	1:3	0:3	x

Competition bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	France	3
	China	0
					France	1
					Belgium	3
					Third place
	Slovakia	0		China	2
	Belgium	3			Slovakia	3

Team Lists

France Alain Pichon Michel Schaller Julien Soyer	Slovakia Richard Csejtey Miroslav Mitas	South Africa Pieter du Plooy Johan du Plooy	Belgium Nico Vergeylen Mathieu Loicq Marc Ledoux
China Li Manzhou Qin Xiao Jun	Spain Jordi Morales Alvaro Valera	Czech Republic Milan Duracka Jiri Soukup

References