Table Tennis Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[JoshMartini007 2,801]

More or less. ITTF set aside 22 quotas for team members which have not qualified in the singles tournament. This was done to guarantee nations which qualified 1 athlete to the singles tournament, but also qualified a team two athletes in order to make a team. Of course in hindsight it is unlikely we will need more than 16 quotas. North America is guaranteed to always have 2 from the same nation while Asia, Europe and Oceania are pretty much guaranteed to have 2. Africa is still very likely to have a nation with 2 as long as Egypt and Nigeria remain the top nations. The only scenario where a nation would need 2 team athlete quotas is for Latin America and the host. Of course it’s better to be safe than sorry when making the qualification document.

[dcro 10,210]

So, we miss out on 2nd quota in men's singles by one place... I knew it! Thanks a lot Asian nations for giving Uzbekistan an easy quota, among others... -.-

[JoshMartini007 2,801]

Most nations have accepted their quotas from the world rankings. The biggest ones missing are China, Japan, South Korea and Chinese Taipei. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some internal selection going on between eligible players. Sweden has also yet to confirm Kristian Karlsson. There is the possibility of an internal selection from there too or maybe they just haven’t gotten around to doing it, they were quite slow to accept the quotas after the European qualifiers.

[uk12points 434]

Does anyone know if GB has qualified a Men's Team in Table Tennis, and if so do we compete with 2 athletes or are we allowed a third?

[JoshMartini007 2,801]

58 minutes ago, uk12points said:

Does anyone know if GB has qualified a Men's Team in Table Tennis, and if so do we compete with 2 athletes or are we allowed a third?

 

You will be given a third (he can only compete in the team event).

[uk12points 434]

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

You will be given a third (he can only compete in the team event).

That's great news!

We reached the Semi-Finals at the recent World Championships, so hopefully a good result can regain some government funding for Table Tennis, which currently recieves no government funding, to improve British table tennis in the future.

[dcro 10,210]

Wild cards have been assigned. Marcelo Aguirre and Heba Allejji.

[hckošice 15,811]

Updated as of May 19th, 2016

[JoshMartini007 2,801]

To keep things correct China has declined its men’s (Fan Zhendong) and women’s (Liu Shiwen) singles quotas obtained from the world rankings it has been reallocated to China’s Xu Xin and China’s Ding Ning respectively. Oddly enough China did not accept the quotas. Similarly Japan declined its men’s singles (Maharu Yoshimura) quota causing it to reallocated back to Japan’s Koki Niwa. Japan has accepted the quota. Overall China and South Korea have yet to accept their quotas.

[heywoodu 16,142]

13 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

To keep things correct China has declined its men’s (Fan Zhendong) and women’s (Liu Shiwen) singles quotas obtained from the world rankings it has been reallocated to China’s Xu Xin and China’s Ding Ning respectively. Oddly enough China did not accept the quotas. Similarly Japan declined its men’s singles (Maharu Yoshimura) quota causing it to reallocated back to Japan’s Koki Niwa. Japan has accepted the quota. Overall China and South Korea have yet to accept their quotas.

That's odd. They have something against Yoshimura?