2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships
| 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Malawati Stadium |
| Location | Shah Alam, Malaysia |
| Dates | 28 February–6 March |
| Nations | 94[1] |
| Champions | |
| Men |  China |
| Women | China |
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| Events | ||
| Men's team | Women's team | |
The 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia from 28 February to 6 March 2016.
Seeding
The top sixteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2014 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the first division, along with the top six placed teams in the world rankings not already qualified.[2]
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team |
|---|---|---|
| Top sixteen in 2014 | ||
| Top two of the 2nd Division in 2014 |  England Italy
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 Brazil Sweden
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| ITTF World Team Ranking[3] |  Hong Kong Belarus Denmark Czech Republic Romania Malaysia
|
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Schedule
Five individual events were contested. Qualification rounds were held from 26–27 April.[4]
| Rounds in Main Draw | |
| Finals |
| Date | 28 February |
29 February |
1 March |
2 March |
3 March |
4 March |
5 March |
6 March |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team | GS | GS | GS | GS | 1/8 final | QF | SF | F |
| Women's team | GS | GS | GS | GS | 1/8 final, QF | QF, SF | SF | F |
Medal summary
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (CHN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 |  Japan (JPN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 |  Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| England (ENG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team |
China Fan Zhendong Fang Bo Ma Long Xu Xin Zhang Jike |
Japan Kenta Matsudaira Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Yuya Oshima Maharu Yoshimura |
South Korea Jang Woo-jin Jeong Sang-eun Joo Sae-hyuk Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su |
| England Alan Cooke (coach) Paul Drinkhall Liam Pitchford Sam Walker | |||
| Women's team |
China Chen Meng Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia Liu Shiwen Zhu Yuling |
Japan Ai Fukuhara Yui Hamamoto Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito Misako Wakamiya |
North Korea Cha Hyo-sim Kim Song-i Ri Mi-gyong Ri Myong-sun |
| Chinese Taipei Chen Szu-yu Cheng Hsien-tzu Cheng I-ching Lin Chia-hui Liu Hsing-yin |
Results
Men's team
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| China | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Sweden | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Croatia | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Sweden | 3 | |||||||||||||
| China | 3 | |||||||||||||
| South Korea | 0 | |||||||||||||
| North Korea | 0 | |||||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=small} Portugal | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Portugal | 1 | |||||||||||||
| South Korea | 3 | |||||||||||||
| China | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Hong Kong | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Austria | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Hong Kong | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||||||
| England | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Poland | 2 | |||||||||||||
| England | 3 | |||||||||||||
| England | 3 | |||||||||||||
| France | 2 | |||||||||||||
Women's team
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| China | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Netherlands | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Austria | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 3 | |||||||||||||
| China | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Ukraine | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Hong Kong | 2 | |||||||||||||
| China | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Japan | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Singapore | 2 | |||||||||||||
| North Korea | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Romania | 0 | |||||||||||||
| North Korea | 3 | |||||||||||||
| North Korea | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||||||
| South Korea | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Germany | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Germany | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||||||
See also
- 2016 ITTF World Tour
- 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
- Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics
References
- ^ "The Perfect 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships kicks off in Kuala Lumpur". ITTF. 28 February 2016. Archived from the original on 7 July 2016.
- ^ "2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships Playing System" (PDF). ITTF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ "ITTF World Team Ranking" (PDF). ittf.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
- ^ Schedule Archived 2015-04-10 at the Wayback Machine