Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.^[1] There were 280 qualified slots (174 male, 106 female) which competed in male and female events.^[2]

Table tennis at the XVI Paralympic Games
Table tennis pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates	25 August – 3 September 2021
Competitors	280 in 31 events
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The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.^[3][4]

Classification

Main article: Para table tennis § Classification

There are 11 classifications in table tennis. Classes 1 – 5 are assigned to athletes who sit in a wheelchair while competing. Classes 6 – 10 are assigned to athletes who stands while competing. The lower number indicates a greater degree of impairment. Class 11 is for athletes with intellectual impairment.

Qualification

Main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Events

31 events were contested. The events are men's and women's team and individual competitions for the various disability classifications.

Men's singles Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Class 10 Class 11

Men's team Class 1–2 Class 3 Class 4–5 Class 6–7 Class 8 Class 9–10

Women's singles Class 1–2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Class 10 Class 11

Women's team Class 1–3 Class 4–5 Class 6–8 Class 9–10

Participating nations

As of 25 August 2021.^[5]

•  Argentina (5)
•  Australia (11)
•  Austria (1)
•  Belgium (3)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Brazil (14)
•  Chile (4)
•  China (27)
•  Chinese Taipei (4)
•  Colombia (1)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Croatia (3)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Egypt (6)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (14)
•  Germany (8)
•  Great Britain (13)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (6)
•  India (2)
•  Indonesia (3)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (7)
•  Japan (11) (Host country)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Malaysia (1)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Montenegro (2)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  Nigeria (6)
•  Norway (3)
•  Poland (12)
•  Romania (1)
•  RPC (10)
•  Saudi Arabia (1)
•  Serbia (5)
•  Slovakia (5)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Spain (6)
•  South Korea (19)
•  Sweden (5)
•  Thailand (12)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Turkey (9)
•  Ukraine (8)
•  United States (4)
•  Venezuela (1)

Schedule

Q

Qualification

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Men

Events	Dates
	Wed 25 Aug	Thurs 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug		Sat 28 Aug		Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tues 31 Aug		Wed 1 Sept		Thurs 2 Sept	Fri 3 Sept
Men's individual C1	Q			¼	½			F
Men's individual C2	Q			¼	½			F
Men's individual C3	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C4	Q			¼	½			F
Men's individual C5	Q			¼	½		F
Men's individual C6	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C7	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C8	Q				½			F
Men's individual C9	Q			¼	½	F
Men's individual C10	Q				½		F
Men's individual C11	Q			¼	½		F
Men's team C1-2									Q	¼		½		F
Men's team C3									Q		¼	½	F
Men's team C4-5									Q	¼	½		F
Men's team C6-7									Q		¼	½		F
Men's team C8									Q	¼		½	F
Men's team C9-10									Q	¼	½			F

Women

Events	Dates
	Wed 25 Aug	Thurs 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug		Sat 28 Aug		Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tues 31 Aug		Wed 1 Sept		Thurs 2 Sept	Fri 3 Sept
Women's individual C1-2	Q		¼		½	F
Women's individual C3	Q			¼	½		F
Women's individual C4	Q			¼	½	F
Women's individual C5	Q			¼	½		F
Women's individual C6	Q		¼	½			F
Women's individual C7	Q				½			F
Women's individual C8	Q				½		F
Women's individual C9	Q			½		F
Women's individual C10	Q					½		F
Women's individual C11	Q				½	F
Women's team C1-3									Q	¼	½		F
Women's team C4-5									Q		¼	½		F
Women's team C6-8									Q	¼	½		F
Women's team C9-10									Q		¼	½		F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	16	4	6	26
2	Australia (AUS)	2	4	0	6
3	France (FRA)	2	2	7	11
4	Poland (POL)	2	1	4	7
5	South Korea (KOR)	1	6	6	13
6	RPC (RPC)	1	2	4	7
7	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	3	6
8	Germany (GER)	1	2	2	5
9	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	0	2
10	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	3	4
11	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	5	7
15	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	2	3
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	2	3
17	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
20	Thailand (THA)	0	0	2	2
21	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)*	0	0	1	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Montenegro (MNE)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (33 entries)		31	31	62	124

Medalists

Men

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	1 details	Joo Young-dae  South Korea	Kim Hyeon-uk  South Korea	Nam Ki-won  South Korea
				Thomas Matthews  Great Britain
	2 details	Fabien Lamirault  France	Rafał Czuper  Poland	Cha Soo-yong  South Korea
				Park Jin-cheol  South Korea
	3 details	Feng Panfeng  China	Thomas Schmidberger  Germany	Jenson Van Emburgh  United States
				Zhai Xiang  China
	4 details	Abdullah Öztürk  Turkey	Kim Young-gun  South Korea	Maxime Thomas  France
				Nesim Turan  Turkey
	5 details	Valentin Baus  Germany	Cao Ningning  China	Ali Öztürk  Turkey
				Jack Hunter Spivey  Great Britain
	6 details	Ian Seidenfeld  United States	Peter Rosenmeier  Denmark	Paul Karabardak  Great Britain
				Rungroj Thainiyom  Thailand
	7 details	Yan Shuo  China	Will Bayley  Great Britain	Maksym Chudzicki  Poland
				Liao Keli  China
	8 details	Zhao Shuai  China	Viktor Didukh  Ukraine	Peng Weinan  China
				Maksym Nikolenko  Ukraine
	9 details	Laurens Devos  Belgium	Ma Lin  Australia	Ivan Mai  Ukraine
				Iurii Nozdrunov  RPC
	10 details	Patryk Chojnowski  Poland	Matéo Bohéas  France	Filip Radović  Montenegro
				David Jacobs  Indonesia
	11 details	Péter Pálos  Hungary	Samuel Von Einem  Australia	Lucas Créange  France
				Florian Van Acker  Belgium
Men's team	1–2 details	France Fabien Lamirault Stéphane Molliens	South Korea Cha Soo-yong Park Jin-cheol Kim Hyeon-uk	Slovakia Martin Ludrovský Ján Riapoš
				Poland Rafał Czuper Tomasz Jakimczuk
	3 details	China Feng Panfeng Zhai Xiang Zhao Ping	Germany Thomas Brüchle Thomas Schmidberger	Czech Republic Petr Svatoš Jiří Suchánek
				Thailand Anurak Laowong Yuttajak Glinbancheun Thirayu Chueawong
	4–5 details	China Cao Ningning Guo Xingyuan Zhang Yan	South Korea Kim Jung-gil Kim Young-gun Baek Young-bok	Slovakia Boris Trávníček Peter Mihálik
				France Florian Merrien Nicolas Savant-Aira Maxime Thomas
	6–7 details	China Yan Shuo Liao Keli Chen Chao	Great Britain Will Bayley Paul Karabardak	Germany Thomas Rau Björn Schnake
				Spain Jordi Morales Álvaro Valera
	8 details	China Zhao Shuai Peng Weinan Ye Chaoqun	Ukraine Viktor Didukh Maksym Nikolenko	France Thomas Bouvais Clément Berthier
				Great Britain Ross Wilson Aaron McKibbin Billy Shilton
	9–10 details	China Lian Hao Zhao Yiqing	Australia Ma Lin Joel Coughlan Nathan Pellissier	Ukraine Ivan Mai Lev Kats
				Nigeria Tajudeen Agunbiade Alabi Olufemi Victor Farinloye

Women

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's individual	1–2 details	Liu Jing  China	Seo Su-yeon  South Korea	Cátia Oliveira  Brazil
				Nadezhda Pushpasheva  RPC
	3 details	Xue Juan  China	Alena Kánová  Slovakia	Lee Mi-gyu  South Korea
				Yoon Ji-yu  South Korea
	4 details	Zhou Ying  China	Bhavina Patel  India	Gu Xiaodan  China
				Zhang Miao  China
	5 details	Zhang Bian  China	Pan Jiamin  China	Jung Young-a  South Korea
				Khetam Abuawad  Jordan
	6 details	Maryna Lytovchenko  Ukraine	Maliak Alieva  RPC	Raisa Chebanika  RPC
				Stephanie Grebe  Germany
	7 details	Kelly van Zon  Netherlands	Viktoriia Safonova  RPC	Anne Barnéoud  France
				Kübra Korkut  Turkey
	8 details	Mao Jingdian  China	Huang Wenjuan  China	Aida Dahlen  Norway
				Thu Kamkasomphou  France
	9 details	Lei Lina  Australia	Xiong Guiyan  China	Karolina Pęk  Poland
				Alexa Szvitacs  Hungary
	10 details	Yang Qian  Australia	Bruna Costa Alexandre  Brazil	Natalia Partyka  Poland
				Tien Shiau-wen  Chinese Taipei
	11 details	Elena Prokofeva  RPC	Léa Ferney  France	Wong Ting Ting  Hong Kong
				Maki Ito  Japan
Women's team	1–3 details	China Xue Juan Li Qian Liu Jing	South Korea Yoon Ji-yu Lee Mi-gyu Seo Su-yeon	Italy Michela Brunelli Giada Rossi
				Croatia Anđela Mužinić Helena Dretar Karić
	4–5 details	China Zhang Bian Zhou Ying Zhang Miao	Sweden Anna-Carin Ahlquist Ingela Lundbäck	Great Britain Megan Shackleton Sue Bailey
				Serbia Borislava Perić Nada Matić
	6–8 details	China Mao Jingdian Huang Wenjuan Wang Rui	Netherlands Frederique van Hoof Kelly van Zon	France Anne Barnéoud Thu Kamkasomphou
				RPC Viktoriia Safonova Maliak Alieva Raisa Chebanika
	9–10 details	Poland Natalia Partyka Karolina Pęk	Australia Yang Qian Lei Lina Melissa Tapper	Brazil Bruna Costa Alexandre Danielle Rauen Jennyfer Marques Parinos
				China Zhao Xiaojing Xiong Guiyan

See also

• Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics