2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships

The 2012 Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships were held at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, Germany from March 25 to April 1, 2012.^[1] It was the 51st edition to be contested.^[2] 120 men's teams and 92 women's teams were allocated to different divisions according to the final ranking of the previous World Team Table Tennis Championships and the ITTF World Team Rankings.^[3][4][5] The winner of the first division, called the Championship Division, was crowned as the new champion.

2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Venue	Westfalenhallen
Location	Dortmund, Germany
Dates	25 March–1 April
Champions
Men	China
Women	China
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To be eligible to have a team entered for the team events in 2012 Summer Olympics, the ITTF member association must have participated in the tournament.^[6] The ranking of the 2012 Championships was taken into account for the Olympic qualification after the final world Olympic qualification tournament, which was held from May 10 to May 13.

Seeding

The Championship Division comprised 24 teams. The top 18 teams of the Championship Division at the 2010 World Team Championships were guaranteed a spot in the championship division.^[5] The top two teams of the Second Division in 2010 automatically advanced to the Championship Division in 2012. The other four spots were announced according to the ITTF World Team Rankings published in February, 2012.

Qualification	Men's team	Women's team
Top eighteen in 2010[7]	China  Germany  Japan  South Korea  Hong Kong  Russia  Belarus  Hungary  Czech Republic  Austria  Sweden  Poland  North Korea  Portugal  Spain  Singapore  Chinese Taipei  Croatia	Singapore  China  Japan  Germany  South Korea  Hong Kong  Hungary  Netherlands  Chinese Taipei  Poland  Croatia  Romania  North Korea  Russia  Spain  United States  Ukraine  Belarus
Top two of the 2nd Division in 2010	Serbia  Slovenia	Sweden  Turkey
ITTF World Team Rankings (ranking in February)[8]	France (12)  Greece (16)  Denmark (20)  Slovakia (21)	Czech Republic (14)  Austria (19)  Serbia (20)  France (21)

Medal summary

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team details	China Ma Long Zhang Jike Wang Hao Xu Xin Ma Lin	Germany Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Baum Bastian Steger Christian Süß	South Korea Joo Se-Hyuk Ryu Seung-Min Oh Sang-Eun Kim Min-Seok Jung Young-Sik
			Japan Jun Mizutani Seiya Kishikawa Koki Niwa Kenji Matsudaira Maharu Yoshimura
Women's team details	China Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Guo Yan Li Xiaoxia Guo Yue	Singapore Feng Tianwei Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Sun Beibei Yu Mengyu	Hong Kong Tie Ya Na Jiang Huajun Lee Ho Ching Ng Wing Nam Yu Kwok See
			South Korea Kim Kyung-Ah Dang Ye-Seo Seok Ha-Jung Yang Ha-Eun Park Mi-Young

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Singapore	0	1	0	1
4	South Korea	0	0	2	2
5	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	4	8

Results

Men's team

Main article: 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

	Ninth place					Consolation semifinals					First round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
																China		3
											Poland		1			Austria		0
																					China		3
											Austria		3
						Poland		1													South Korea		0
																Chinese Taipei		1
						Hong Kong		3
											Hong Kong		2			South Korea		3
																										China		3
											Chinese Taipei		3
	Hong Kong		3																							Germany		0
																Japan		3
	Belarus		1
											Singapore		3			Singapore		1
																					Japan		1
											Belarus		1
						Belarus		3													Germany		3
																Sweden		0								Third place
	Eleventh place					Portugal		1
											Portugal		0			Germany		3
											Sweden		3													South Korea		X
	Poland		1
																										Japan		X
	Portugal		3
																					5th–8th classification					Fifth place
																					Austria		3
																					Chinese Taipei		0
																										Austria		3
																										Sweden		1
																					Singapore		1
																					Sweden		3
																										Seventh place
																										Chinese Taipei		3
																										Singapore		2

Women's team

Main article: 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Women's team

First Round				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
				China	3
Poland	3			Poland	0
Romania	2							China	3
Netherlands	3							Hong Kong	1
Austria	1			Netherlands	0
				Hong Kong	3
												China	3
												Singapore	0
				Japan	2
Hungary	0			South Korea	3
South Korea	3							South Korea	2
Germany	3							Singapore	3			Third Place
North Korea	1			Germany	2							Hong Kong	X
				Singapore	3							South Korea	X
Position 9–12								Position 5–8
Romania	2			Austria	0			Poland	1			Netherlands	0
Austria	3			North Korea	3			Netherlands	3			Japan	3
Hungary	0			Romania	1			Japan	3			Poland	2
North Korea	3			Hungary	3			Germany	0			Germany	3