Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Table tennis at the Games of the Olympiad

Venue	Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Dates	27 July – 10 August 2024
No. of events	5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	175 from 60 nations
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The table tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. A total of 175 table tennis players, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same amount as those in the previous editions. After a successful tournament during the 2020 Summer Olympics, the mixed doubles event remained in the table tennis program for the second time at the Olympics.

Chinese players swept all of the available events, winning five gold medals.

Qualification
Participating nations
Competition schedule
Medal summary
- Medal table
- Medalists
See also

Qualification

172 table tennis quota places, with an equal split between men and women, were available for Paris 2024; NOCs could enter a maximum of six table tennis players across five medal events (men's and women's singles; men's and women's teams, and mixed doubles) with a maximum of two each for the men's and women's singles. The host nation France reserved a direct spot each in the men's and women's teams, respectively, with one per gender competing in the singles tournament; and in the mixed doubles (previously inaugurated in Tokyo 2020).

Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Participating nations

There were 60 participating nations:

Algeria (2)
Argentina (1)
Australia (6)
Austria (2)
Belgium (2)
Brazil (6)
Cameroon (1)
Canada (4)
Chile (3)
China (6)
Croatia (4)
Cuba (3)
Czech Republic (1)
Denmark (3)
Ecuador (1)
Egypt (7)
Fiji (1)
France (6) (host)
Germany (7)
Great Britain (2)
Greece (1)
Guyana (1)
Hong Kong (4)
Hungary (3)
India (6)
Iran (3)
Italy (2)
Japan (6)
Jordan (1)
Kazakhstan (1)
Lebanon (1)
Luxembourg (3)
Madagascar (1)
Maldives (1)
Mexico (2)
Moldova (1)
Monaco (1)
Nepal (1)
Netherlands (1)
Nigeria (4)
North Korea (3)
Poland (5)
Portugal (5)
Puerto Rico (3)
Republic of the Congo (1)
Romania (5)
Senegal (1)
Serbia (1)
Singapore (3)
Slovenia (3)
Slovakia (1)
South Korea (6)
Spain (2)
Sweden (6)
Chinese Taipei (6)
Thailand (3)
Turkey (1)
Ukraine (3)
United States (4)
Vanuatu (1)

Competition schedule

Legend
P	Preliminary round	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Schedule
Event↓ / Date →	Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Sun 4	Mon 5	Wed 7	Thu 8		Fri 9	Sat 10
Men's singles	P				¼	½		F
Men's team									P	¼	½		F
Women's singles	P				¼	½	F
Women's team									P	¼		½		F
Mixed doubles	P	¼	½	F

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	1	0	6
2	Sweden	0	2	0	2
3	Japan	0	1	1	2
4	North Korea	0	1	0	1
5	France*	0	0	2	2
South Korea	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)	5	5	5	15

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Fan Zhendong China	Truls Möregårdh Sweden	Félix Lebrun France
Men's team details	China Fan Zhendong Ma Long Wang Chuqin	Sweden Anton Källberg Kristian Karlsson Truls Möregårdh	France Simon Gauzy Alexis Lebrun Félix Lebrun

Women's singles details	Chen Meng China	Sun Yingsha China	Hina Hayata Japan
Women's team details	China Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu Chen Meng	Japan Hina Hayata Miwa Harimoto Miu Hirano	South Korea Shin Yu-bin Jeon Ji-hee Lee Eun-hye

Mixed doubles details	China Wang Chuqin Sun Yingsha	North Korea Ri Jong-sik Kim Kum-yong	South Korea Lim Jong-hoon Shin Yu-bin

Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

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