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Table Tennis at Beijing 2008

Table tennis competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing will be held from August 13 to August 23, at the Peking University Gymnasium.4 sets of medals will be awarded in the following events:

An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 3 women athletes in singles events and up to 1 men's and 1 women's team in teams events. A total of 64 athletes will qualify for each singles event as follows:

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The Road to Beijing (Singles Event)
Date Tournament Vacancies Men Women
11-23 Jul 2007 All Africa Games, Algiers 6


13-29 Jul 2007 Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro 1
15-18 Oct 2007 Middle Asia Qualifying Tournament, Tehran 1
6-11 Mar 2008 Asian Qualification Tournament, Hong Kong 10  
30 Mar - 6 Apr 2008 Latin American Championships, Santo Domingo 5&6    
2-6 Apr 2008 European Qualification Tournament, Nantes, France 11
4-6 Apr 2008 North American Qualification Tournament, Vancouver 1  
5-8 Apr 2008 Oceania Qualification Tournament, Noumea 3    
1-18 May 2008 Final World Qualification Tournament 2    

The Road to Beijing (Team Event)
Date Tournament Vacancies Men Women
  Top Team from each continent 6    
  Host Nation 1
  Remaining selected teams 9    

Each team will consist of 3 players and they don't have to participate in singles events (there are additional athletes quota places for such players). Teams will be qualified after all singles qualification events, and the teams will be ranked according to the January 2008 ranking list, but the qualification will be awarded first to the teams with all 3 players qualified to the singles event, then to teams with 2 singles qualifiers, then to teams with 1 and finally to teams without singles qualifiers.