Table Tennis Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[hckošice 13,267]

Updated as of April 4th, 2016

[dcro 10,182]

We will have only USA and Canada at North American qualification.

 

North and South America should be merged in table tennis. Maybe with similar system to Asia where one quota is guaranteed for both North and South American while the other 7 quotas are contested between everyone else.

[mrv86 2,924]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

We will have only USA and Canada at North American qualification.

 

North and South America should be merged in table tennis. Maybe with similar system to Asia where one quota is guaranteed for both North and South American while the other 7 quotas are contested between everyone else.

 

Totally agree... I mean, the quotas in women's are already defined: one will go to USA (Yue WU qualified in the Pan American Games) with the other two going to Canada.

 

The only real contest here is to determine if USA or CANADA will get 2 participants in men's and get the regional spot in the respective team event.

[JoshMartini007 2,214]

There will only be two quotas available in women's table tennis since we used one for the Pan Am Games.

 

Technically Bermuda and US Virgin Islands can compete in North America too.

 

That probably won’t happen without objection from both North and Latin America. Neither continent will want to lose their team quota, but the more pressing issue is that we wouldn’t be guaranteed to keep the nine individual quotas given to both continents.

Edited April 5, 2016 by JoshMartini007

[JoshMartini007 2,214]

Canada wins a men's quota and United States wins a women's quota after the first day.

[hckošice 13,267]

updated as of April 9th, 2016

Edited April 9, 2016 by hckosice

[dcro 10,182]

American Lily Zhang qualified yesterday. Interesting to note that she competed at Summer Olympics in London, two years later she competed at Youth Summer Olympics in Nanjing and now she is going to Rio.

[hckošice 13,267]

updated as of April 10th, 2016

[JoshMartini007 2,214]

United States will likely qualify a team quota in both the men's and women's events. Too bad, I thought Canada could have gotten the men's team.

[dcro 10,182]

Interesting that all of the North American Olympic qualifiers will be the players of Asian (Chinese) origin.