Results of the Table Tennis Olympiad. Olympics. Table tennis. Chinese Zhang Jike defeated Japanese Koki Niva and will play in the semifinals with Vladimir Samsonov

The Olympic Games are the largest sports competition of our time, held every four years. They occupy a prominent place in the social life of the planet, contributing to the strengthening of cooperation and the prestige of physical culture and sports. "Citius, altius, fortius!" (“Faster, higher, stronger!”) is the motto of the Olympic Games. It reflected the eternal desire of mankind for progress, the development of natural abilities. Participation in the Olympic Games is considered an important and honorable thing. Olympic champions have always been national heroes of their countries.

Table tennis has recently become an Olympic sport in its almost century-long history. By the decision of the 79th session of the International Olympic Committee in 1977 (Prague), table tennis was included in the family of Olympic sports, and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was recognized as the federation governing the sport and meeting all the criteria of the Olympic Charter. Only some time later, at the 1981 IOC Congress in Baden-Baden, it was decided to include table tennis in the program of the 1988 Olympic Games in four types of individual competitions: in men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles.

Since 1988, table tennis has been regularly included in the programs of the Summer Olympic Games, which gave a strong impetus to the development of the game (see the results in Appendix 3). Most sports leaders in highly developed countries have turned their attention to table tennis as a medal-intensive sport. The requirements for the quality of training of athletes, methods and means of training have increased. The quality of inventory has improved significantly. The strongest Chinese tennis players are invited to many countries of the world for joint training, as well as highly qualified Chinese coaches to work with national teams.

In a number of countries, sports leaders have taken the path of inviting leading tennis players to permanent residence - representatives of countries leading in modern table tennis (China, Korea, Thailand, etc.), in order to include them in their national teams. Germany has chosen a different strategy: leading foreign tennis players are invited to participate in domestic competitions in order to improve their playing level, and their own athletes are put up for international competitions.

As the results of the world championships and the Olympic Games of the last twenty years show, the leading positions in all categories are occupied by tennis players from East Asian countries, and athletes from China are in the first place (Table 2.3).

All five Olympiad masters of the "small racket" from Southeast Asia demonstrate their high skill. They win more Olympic medals than all Europeans. So, at the XXIV Olympic Games in 1988 in Seoul among men, only the Swede E. Lindh won a bronze medal. The gold medal went to Yeo Nam Kyu and the silver to Kim Ki Taek, both from South Korea. Gold medals in men's doubles went to Chinese tennis players Chen Longkang and Wei Kuingzhuang, silver went to Yugoslavs Ilie Lupulescu and Zoltan Primorak, and bronze went to Koreans Ye Nam Kyu and Ehn Zhey Hyung.

In women, all the medals in the singles competition were won by the Chinese women: gold for Chen Jin, silver for Li Haifeng and bronze for Zhao. Jimin. In doubles, Korean women Yang Yong Ya and Hyun Zhang Hua won gold, Chinese women Zhao Jiming and Chen Jin won silver, and Yugoslav tennis players Yasna Fazilik and Gordana Perkusin won bronze.

Soviet table tennis was represented by V. Popova, F. Bulatova, G. Melnik, A. Mazunov, V. Dvorak. F. Bulatova and V. Popova managed to pass the East Asian barrier and showed a relatively high result, entering the six strongest athletes of the Olympic Games in the women's singles (F. Bulatova - 5th place, V. Popova - 6th place), bringing the national team country team score points.

At the XXV Summer Olympic Games in 1992, the experienced Swedish tennis player world champion Jan-Uwe Waldner put up a worthy resistance to the masters of the Asian school - he won gold in the men's singles. Second place went to the Frenchman Jean-Paul Gautien. Bronze medals, however, went to Chinese and Korean athletes.

For women, the singles final, just like four years ago, turned out to be Chinese. Gold went to Deng Yaping, silver to Zhao Hong, bronze to Korean Lee Boon Hugh. In the doubles competition for men, gold was won by Lu Liying - Wang Tao (China), silver from German tennis players Stefan Fetzner-Jörg Rosskopf, bronze from Korean tennis players Kang Hi Chan-Lee Chul Seun and Kim Su - Yo Nam Kyu. In women's doubles, all medals were won by Asian tennis players. The first place was taken by Chinese women Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong, the 2nd place was also taken by the Chinese women Chen Zih - Gao Zhong, and the 3rd place was shared by the Korean women Lee Boon Hui - Yu Sun Bok and Hong Cha Ok - Hyun Zhang Hua.

The right to participate in these Olympic Games, having played in a series of international tournaments, was won in the individual singles by the brothers A. and D. Mazunov, M. Shmyrev, and in the women's category - the veteran of our team, Honored Master of Sports V. Popova, G. Melnik and E. Timin. The Mazunov brothers were allowed to participate in the men's doubles and Popova-Melnik and Palina-Timina in the women's doubles. In singles, it was not possible to show the result, but all three of our pairs entered the top eight.

At the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta in the men's singles final was Chinese: Liu Gualian won gold, Wang Tao won silver, and the German athlete Jörg Rosskopf won the bronze medal in a bitter struggle. In women's individual singles, tennis players from China and Taiwan again turned out to be winners.

In doubles, as well as at previous Games, medals of all denominations - both for men and women - were won by Asian athletes, once again proving the advantages of the Asian school of play. In men, the Chinese couple Kong Linghua - Liu Guoliang won gold, the Chinese couple Liu Ling-Wang Tao also won bronze, the Koreans Lee Chul Seun - Ye Nam Kyu also won bronze. In women, gold went to the Chinese couple Deng Yaping - Kuao Hong, silver went to the Chinese pair Li Wei - Kuao Yunping, bronze went to the Korean tennis players Pak Nai Zhong

Ru Zhi Hai.

Our country was represented at these Olympic Games by D and A. Mazunov, G. Melnik and I. Palina.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney (Australia), competitions were held in 28 sports, including table tennis. Of the 200 countries that took part in the Games, 48 ​​countries sent their athletes to the table tennis tournament, which was attended by 171 athletes (in total, over 10,000 Olympians competed in Sydney). At these Olympic Games, Russia was represented only by the women's team - she managed to win tickets to the Olympics. According to the regulations, three tennis players, men and women, could take part from each country. G. Melnik, I. Palina and O. Kushch spoke from Russia. G. Melnik and I. Palina showed their best performance in preliminary individual single competitions and reached the Final group, where 32 tennis players from 17 countries continued to fight for gold, and only 12 of them were representatives of European countries. For the USA and New Zealand, for Germany and Luxembourg, athletes of Chinese origin played.

All of the four possible gold medals in the disciplines played, as in the previous Olympic Games in Atlanta, went to the Chinese masters of the "small racket". In the men's singles final, 34-year-old Swedish table tennis veteran 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner lost in a bitter struggle to rising Chinese table tennis star Kong Linghua.

Asian women again had no equal. In the women's singles final, Wang Nan from China confidently defeated her compatriot Li Jiu and became the winner of the Games.

At the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games in 2004, which were held in honor of the centenary of the modern Olympics in Af Inakh to represent the Russian national team in the network of qualifying competitions won the right: in singles individual category - Muscovite E. Fadeev and S. Ganina from Nizhny Novgorod; in men's doubles - A. Smirnov - D. Mazunov; in women's doubles S. Ganina - I. Palina and G. Melnik - O. Fadeeva. And again, in the final stage of the Olympic tournament, the medals were shared by Chinese and Korean tennis players.

In the men's doubles, the Russian pair D. Mazunov - A. Smirnov, however, achieved unprecedented success - entered the top four strongest Olympic pairs, stubbornly losing bronze with a score of 2: 4 to tennis players from Denmark.

The Olympic Games are not only a certain stage in the formation and development of table tennis, but also a criterion for assessing the technical and tactical skills of athletes and the balance of power on the world stage, where the preponderance today is on the side of East Asian tennis players.

Maria Dolgikh, in the second - Polina Mikhailova, and only Alexander Shibaev played two games of the second and third rounds at the Olympic site in Rio de Janeiro, where he was stopped by the German leader Timo Boll with a score of 4:3.

Since the table tennis teams of men and women of Russia did not take place, it is already possible to leave the Olympic village. Without waiting for the personal finals - for women on August 10, for men - on August 11. And the start of the team competition on August 12.

In a personal Olympic tournament, players from the fourth round are partially determined - a game for reaching the quarterfinals. Due to the large time difference, there is confusion about the dates. What number should be put - local (Brazilian) or European (Moscow, for example).

Although Russian table tennis athletes do not care. They performed the best they could. Been Olympians. Dolgikh and Mikhailova - for the first time, Shibaev for the second time after, where he also remained in the third round of the individual tournament.

He also performed in a team (last 9-16 places). Our women failed to form an Olympic table tennis team for the third time in a row (2008, 2012 and 2016).

Earlier in 1988-2004, there were individual and doubles competitions at the Summer Olympics. That is, any first women's team in Russia will become a debutant at the Olympic Games.

Just not today.

August 6-7, 2016, Rio de Janeiro. The first, second and third round of the individual table tennis tournament at the Olympic Games in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, August 5-21, 2016). From top to bottom: No. 23 Shibaev Alexander, Russia, No. 38 Mikhailova Polina, Russia, No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine, No. 93 Privalova Alexander, Belarus, No. 75 Dolgikh Maria, Russia.

TABLE TENNIS

Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

MEN

No. 1 Ma Long, China - No. 12 Jeong Youngsik, South Korea

#13 Timo Boll, Germany - #40 Aruna Quadri, Nigeria

No. 11 Freitas Marcos, Portugal - No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine

#6 Mizutani Jun, Japan - #54 Calderano Hugo, Brazil

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

MEN (1-16 seeded in 3rd round)

No. 1 Ma Long, China - No. 29 Groth Jonathan, Denmark 4:0

No. 12 Jeong Youngsik, South Korea - No. 48 Pitchford Liam, England 4:1

No. 13 Timo Boll, Germany - No. 23 Shibaev Alexander, Russia

(4-3) 12:14, 11:4, 7:11, 11:7, 10:12, 12:10, 11:6

No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine- №17 Gauzy Simon, France 4:1

No. 6 Mizutani Jun, Japan - No. 25 Gionis Panagiotis, Greece 4:1

No. 5 Ovtcharov Dimitrij, Germany - No. 28 Li Ping ^, Qatar

№9 Samsonov Vladimir, Belarus- No. 27 Karlsson Kristian, Sweden

No. 4 Zhang Jike, China - No. 33 Chen Chien-An, Taipei

MEN (17-32, seeded in 2nd round)

No. 48 Pitchford Liam, England - No. 238 Kenzhaev Zokhid, Uzbekistan 4:1

No. 23 Shibaev Alexander, Russia- No. 52 Dyjas Jakub, Poland

(4:0) 11:9, 11:8, 11:8, 11:9

No. 42 Kou Lei, Ukraine- №55 Assar Omar, Egypt 4:3

No. 28 Li Ping ^, Qatar - No. 84 Pattantyus Adam, Hungary 4:0

MEN (33 and under, seeded in 1st round)

No. 84 Pattantyus Adam, Hungary - No. 171 Gerasimenko Kirill, Kazakhstan 4:1

MEN (33 and under, seeded in preliminary round)

12 athletes

WOMEN

No. 2 Ding Ning, China - No. 22 Doo Hoi Kem, Hong Kong

No. 7 Han Ying ^, Germany - No. 53 Li Xue ^, France

#11 Jeon Jihee^, South Korea - #13 Yu Mengyu, Singapore

No. 41 Chen Szu-Yu, Taipei - No. 50 Kim Song I, North Korea

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

no player - no player

WOMEN (1-16, seeded in 3rd round)

No. 13 Yu Mengyu, Singapore - No. 128 Lay Jian Fang, Australia 4:0

No. 41 Chen Szu-Yu, Taipei - No. 23 Hu Melek, Turkey 4:0

No. 50 Kim Song I, North Korea - No. 6 Kasumi Ishikawa, Japan 4:3

#5 Li Xiaoxia, China - #43 LI Fen^, Sweden

No. 43 Lee Ho Ching, Hong Kong - No. 49 Bilenko Tatiana, Ukraine

No. 10 Cheng I-Ching, Taipei - No. 57 Pavlovich Victoria, Belarus

#8 Ai Fukuhara, Japan - #58 Monteiro Dodean Daniela, Romania

WOMEN (17-32, seeded in 2nd round)

No. 128 Lay Jian Fang, Australia - No. 55 Polcanova Sofia, Austria 4:2

No. 41 Chen Szu-Yu, Taipei - No. 93 Privalova Alexander, Belarus 4:2

No. 57 Pavlovich Victoria, Belarus- No. 38 Mikhailova Polina, Russia

(4-2) 9:11, 8:11, 11:9, 13:11, 11:7, 11:8

WOMEN (33 and below, seeded in 1st round)

No. 139 Gui Lin, Brazil - No. 92 , Spain 2:4

No. 128 Lay Jian Fang, Australia - No. 75 Dolgikh Maria, Russia

(4-3) 11:6, 11:7, 8:11, 6:11, 12:10, 8:11, 11:5

No. 93 Privalova Alexandra, Belarus- №282 Shahsavari Neda, Iran 4:3

No. 57 Pavlovich Victoria, Belarus- №220 Edem Offiong, Nigeria 4:1

WOMEN (33 and below, seeded in preliminary round)

Table tennis is a game, the essence of which is tossing a special celluloid ball over a net stretched over a special table. The table is 9 x 5 feet (2.74m x 1.525m) and 30 inches (76cm) high.

There are many famous personalities among table tennis fans - Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Blair, Lech Walesa, Luciano Pavarotti, Sergey Kiriyenko, Viktor Chernomyrdin and even Mao Zedong. And the singer Anne Veski once became the champion of Estonia in table tennis.

OLYMPIC GAMES

Table tennis competitions in singles and doubles first appeared on the program of the Olympic Games in 1988 in Seoul. The team category replaced the doubles category at the 2008 Beijing Games.

RUSSIA

At the Olympic level, Russian players have not yet achieved any noticeable results.

Photo - Sergey Kivrin and Andrey Golovanov

Table tennis is a game, the essence of which is tossing a special celluloid ball over a net stretched over a special table. The table is 9 x 5 feet (2.74m x 1.525m) and 30 inches (76cm) high. Throwing the ball is carried out with the help of wooden rackets, covered with rubber on both sides. The ball must be painted white or orange. Each ball rally ends with the assignment of one point to one or another player (team). According to modern international rules, established in 2001, each game goes up to 11 points. The player also earns a point if his opponent made one of the mistakes. These include: not hitting the ball; incorrect submission; double hitting the ball on your side of the table; the ball falling on the side of the batter after the impact; hitting the ball before it hits the player's side of the table; touching the ball with the racket and wrist; touching the surface of the table with the free hand or moving the table.