Olympics 2012 - Qualified players

[TableTennisDaily]

Source: Thanks to the etta.co.uk for this useful information for us!

So, an Olympic Games cannot be run without the super stars. Below is the list so far on who will go to the London 2012 Olympic Games! Qualification procedures are still under way so we will keep this page updated for you.

There has been direct players who booked their place at the ExCel arena for the 28th July 2012, but there are many more spots that have been taken up from the qualification events!

Photo by: sports.sohu.com

Below is the list of the qualified male and female table tennis hopefuls for the London 2012 Olympics!

Direct Qualifiers due to ITTF World Ranking List

Male

1 Wang Hao - China
2 Timo Boll - Germany
3 Zhang Jike - China
4 Jun Mizutani - Japan
5 Vladimir Samsonov - Belarus
6 Joo Se Hyuk - Korea
7 Oh Sang Eun - Korea
8 Chuang Chih-Yuan - Chinese Taipei
9 Dimitrij Ovtcharov - Germany
10 Gao Ning Singapore - Li Jiao
11 Peng Tang - Hong Kong
12 Michael Maze - Denmark
13 Alexey Smirnov - Russia
14 Adrien Mattenet - France
15 Werner Schlager - Austria
16 Tianyi Jiang - Hong Kong
17 Kalinikos Kreanga - Greece
18 Seiya Kishikawa - Japan
19 Jorgen Persson - Sweden
20 Weixeng Chen - Austria
21 Adrian Crisan - Romania
22 Jean-Michel Saive - Belgium
23 Panagiotis Gionis - Greece
24 Zoran Primorac - Croatia
25 Par Gerell - Sweden
26 Yang Zi - Singapore
27 Alexander Shibaev - Russia
28 Bojan Tokic - Slovenia

Women

1 Li Xiaoxia - China
2 Guo Yan - China
3 Tianwei Feng - Singapore
4 Kasumi Ishikawa - Japan
5 Ai Fukuhara - Japan
6 Kim Kyung Ah - Korea
7 Wang Yuegu - Singapore
8 Yana Tie - Hong Kong
9 Jiaduo Wu - Germany
10 Li Jiao - Netherlands
11 Huajun Jiang - Hong Kong
12 Yanfei Shen - Spain
13 Park Mi Young - Korea
14 Li Jie - Netherlands
15 Huang Yi-Hua - Chinese Taipei
16 Viktoria Pavlovich - Belarus
17 Melek Hu - Turkey
18 Qian Li - Poland
19 Krisztina Toth - Hungary
20 Daniela Dodean - Romania
21 Kim Jong PR - Korea
22 Georgina Pota - Hungary
23 Eliabeta Samara - Romania
24 Li Xue - France
25 Ni Xia Lian - Luxembourg
26 Kristin Silbereisen - Germany
27 Jia Liu - Austria
28 Iveta Vacenovska - Czech Republic


West Asia Qualification Tournament

Male

1 Ibrahem Alhasan - Kuwait

Female

1 Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian - Lebanon


Africa Qualification Tournament

Male

1 Omar Assar - Egypt
2 El-Sayed Lashin - Egypt
3 Quadri Aruna - Nigeria
4 Segun Toriola - Nigeria
5 Suraju Saka - Rep. of the Congo
6 Saheed Idowu - Rep. of the Congo

Female

1 Offiong Edem - Nigeria
2 Olufunke Oshonaike - Nigeria
3 Han Xing - Rep. of the Congo
4 Nadeen El-Dawlatly - Egypt
5 Dina Meshref - Egypt
6 Sarah Hanffou - Cameroon


Pan-America Games

Male

1 Liu Song - Argentina

Female

Zhang Mo - Canada


Middle Asia Qualification Tournament

Male

1 Noshad Alamiyan - Iran

Female

1 Neda Shahsavari - Iran


South-East Asia Qualification Tournament

Male

1 Jian Zhan - Singapore

Female

Li Jiawei - Singapore


Latin America Qualification Tournament

Male

1 Ju Lin Dominican Republic
2 Gustavo Tsuboi Brazil
3 Marcelo Aguirre Paraguay
4 Hugo Hoyama Brazil
5 Andy Pereira Cuba

Female

1 Ligia Silva - Brazil
2 Paula Medina - Colombia
3 Yadira Silva - Mexico
4 Fabiola Ramos - Venezuela
5 Berta Podriguez - Chile


Oceania Qualification Tournament

Male

1 William Henzell - Australia
2 Justin Han - Australia
3 Phillip Xiao - New Zealand

Women

1 Jian Fang Lay - Australia
2 Chunli Li - New Zealand
3 Miao Miao - Australia


European Qualification Tournament (15/04/12)

Male

1 Marcos Freitas - Portugal
2 Robert Gardos - Austria
3 Joao Montiero - Portugal
4 Bastian Steger - Germany
5 Daniel Zwickl - Hungary
6 Aleksandar Karakasevic - Serbia
7 Marko Jevtovic - Serbia
8 He Zhiwen Wen - Spain
9 Kirill Skachkov - Russia
10 Jens Lundqvist - Sweden
11 Adam Pattantyus - Hungary

Female

1 Irene Ivancan - Germany
2 Natalia Partyka - Poland
3 Mie Skov - Denmark
4 Yi Fang Xian - France
5 Margaryta Pesotska - Ukraine
6 Cornelia Molnar - Croatia
7 Yuan Tian - Croatia
8 leksandra Privalova - Belarus
9 Li Qiangbing - Austria
10 Amelie Solja - France
11 Wenling Tan - Italy


North American Qualification Tournament (22/04/12)

Male

1 Andre Ho - Canada
2 Pierre-Luc Hinse - Canada
3 Timothy Wang - USA

Female

1 Ariel Hsing - USA
2 Lily Zhang - USA


Asian Qualification Tournament (22/04/12)

Male

1 Chu Yan Leung - Hong Kong
2 Koki Niwa - Japan
3 Ma Long - China
4 Ryu Seung Min - Korea
5 Hyok Bong Kim - North Korea
6 Song Nam Kim - North Korea
7 Song Man Jang - North Korea
8 Soumyajit Ghosh - India

Female

1 Guo Yue - China
2 Myong Sun Ri - North Korea
3 Sayaka Hirano - Japan
4 Seok Ha Jung - Korea
5 Chen Szu-Yu - Chinese Taipei
6 Nanthana Komwong - Thailand
7 Mi Gyong Ri - North Korea
8 Ankita Das - India

Final World Qualification Tournament (13/05/12)

Male

1 Tiago Apolonia
2 Carlos Machado
3 Oleksandr Didukh
4 Zeng Wang
5 Andrej Gacina
6 Bora Vang
7 Allan Bentsen
8 Mihal Bobocica
9 Yaroslav Zhmudenko
10 Matiss Burgis

Female

1 Matilda Ekholm
2 HADAVOCA Dana Hadavoca
3 Sara Ramirez
4 Galia Dvorak
5 Tikhomirova
6 Yana Noskova
7 Lee Ho Ching
8 Huang Mendes Lei

Host Country Representation (15/05/12)

Coming soon...

Tripartite Comminsion Invitation Place (30/05/12)

Coming soon...

Team Allocation (30/05/12)

Coming soon...

The official list of all the competitors playing in the London 2012 Olympics!

Enjoy and stay tuned!

 

[TT Guru]

Great info, thanks!
Have a look over the Euro & Asian events again to rectify the double input.
Also, unfortunately... the New Zealand qualifiers from the Oceania event were replaced with Vanuatu players thanks to the NZOC.

 

[mrxamad]

one thing which confuses me, why wasn't no. 1 player ma long directly qualified for the olympics?

 

[Justchill]

Hmm who plays for China? Ma Long doesn't participate?

 

[sehskyle]

Yeah, what's up with Ma Long not being given an automatic position?

 

[Tadex]

The ranking qualifying spots were determined after the last World Championships and not the most recent rankings.

 

[WiWa]

Good to see players like Tokic and Kara will be there Always a joy to watch!

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

The ranking qualifying spots were determined after the last World Championships and not the most recent rankings.

Add to this that, in May of 2011 (after 2011 World Championships, Wang Hao was #1, Zhang Jike was #3, Ma Long was #5--Timo Boll was #2 and Ma Lin was #4) and that only the top two players from each country can qualify in this way. So that is how you get Wang Hao and Zhang Jike. The reason only the top two can qualify in this way is that somebody does not want China to win all the medals, and they would if they could qualify all their top players.

But Ma Long did qualify in the Asian qualifications and he is the only player China sent to those qualifications.

Here is the rankings from May 2011 which they used to determine direct qualifications:

ITTF World ranking
World Ranking updated on: 04/25/2011 (M)
Click on the player name for his/her World ranking record
Rank Name Assoc.
1 (<<) 2769 WANG Hao CHN
2 (<<) 2756 BOLL Timo GER
3 (<<) 2631 ZHANG Jike CHN
4 (<<) 2630 MA Lin CHN
5 (<<) 2603 MA Long CHN

This is cut and pasted from the ITTF world ranking page.

 

[GeMaCa]

Hey!!! What about Ma Long??? What happened to him??? He wont play???

 

[barca]

one thing which confuses me, why wasn't no. 1 player ma long directly qualified for the olympics?

Yeah, i also wonder WHY??????????????

 

[Mwit_Psychoror]

ITTF World ranking
World Ranking updated on: 04/25/2011 (M)
Click on the player name for his/her World ranking record
Rank Name Assoc.
1 (<<) 2769 WANG Hao CHN
2 (<<) 2756 BOLL Timo GER
3 (<<) 2631 ZHANG Jike CHN
4 (<<) 2630 MA Lin CHN
5 (<<) 2603 MA Long CHN

This is cut and pasted from the ITTF world ranking page.

LOLOL Wang Hao got just 2769 points.
Ma Long last month has 3006!!!

 

[Camarão®]

Caroline Kumahara from Brazil qualified on the Latin America qualifying, something is wrong.

 

[T_Hipnos_T]

And wath is of Ma Lin the Last Champion of golden medal???' must be wrong this T.T

 

[NTclub]

Yesterday, ITTF announced Olympic team qualified countries and players.
There is a change from the above qualifiers. Li Chunli (NZ) was replaced with LULU Anolyn (VAN).
The list of men's qualifiers in ITTF site
The list of women's qualifiers in ITTF site