2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships

2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships

The 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Busan, South Korea from 16 to 25 February 2024. Quarterfinalists of the event qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Bid

2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships

Busan was selected as the first South Korean city to host World Table Tennis Championships in 2018. The 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships were originally scheduled to be held in Busan from 22 to 29 March 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, initially until 27 September to 4 October 2020, then until 28 February to 7 March 2021. However, on 22 December it was announced that the event had been cancelled.

In May 2021, Busan launched another bid for the 2024 World Championships, and won the bid in November 2021.

Qualification

2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships

Number of teams eligible to compete for the trophy in each team event is 40.

Continental Stage – 33 teams will qualify from the Continental Stage. The continental quota allocation is the following: 4 for Africa, 6 for the Americas, 10 for Asia, 11 for Europe, and 2 for Oceania. Numbers are according to the "2020 BoD Proposition 28".

China News Service video about the Chinese team performance.

Host nation – spot is guaranteed. If the host nation is already qualified through the Continental Stage, the host quota will be reallocated to the ITTF WTR Oct 2023.

Intercontinental Stage – As per the decision of the ITTF Council, in Bangkok on 23 August 2023, no Intercontinental Stage will be held in 2023. Instead, the remaining six (6) places shall be allocated as follows:

Five (5) places are transferred to the five continents as follows: Africa 1, the Americas 1, Asia 1, Europe 1, and Oceania 1; with the final allocation as per qualifying event or Team World Ranking (TWR) to be confirmed by each continental federation.

The remaining one (1) place will go to the highest-ranked not-yet-qualified team on the ITTF WTR November 2023.

<table><thead><tr><th>Qualification</th><th>Men's team</th><th>Women's team</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Host nation</td><td> South Korea</td><td> South Korea</td></tr><tr><td>Africa (5) 2023 African Championships (4) and world team ranking (1)</td><td> Egypt  Nigeria  Algeria  Tunisia  Madagascar</td><td> Egypt  Nigeria  Algeria  Tunisia  Mauritius</td></tr><tr><td>Americas (7) 2023 Pan American Championships (4) and world team ranking (3)</td><td> Brazil  Canada  Chile  Puerto Rico  United States  Argentina  Cuba</td><td> United States  Brazil  Chile  Puerto Rico  Canada  Mexico  Argentina</td></tr><tr><td>Asia (11) 2023 Asian Championships (10) and world team ranking (1)</td><td> China  Chinese Taipei  India  Japan  Iran  Singapore  Kazakhstan  Hong Kong  Thailand  Malaysia  Saudi Arabia</td><td> China  Hong Kong  Japan  Thailand  India  Singapore  Kazakhstan  Iran  Uzbekistan  Chinese Taipei  Malaysia</td></tr><tr><td>Europe (12) 2023 European Championships (8) and world team ranking (4)</td><td> Sweden  Germany  France  Portugal  Hungary  Croatia  Belgium  Denmark  Slovenia  England  Poland  Slovakia</td><td> Germany  Romania  France  Portugal  Italy  Spain  Sweden  Slovakia  Hungary  Luxembourg  Poland  Austria</td></tr><tr><td>Oceania (3) 2023 Oceanian Championships (2) and world team ranking (1)</td><td> Australia  New Zealand  Tahiti</td><td> Australia  New Zealand  Tahiti</td></tr><tr><td>Intercontinental quota (1) world team ranking</td><td> Romania</td><td> Czech Republic</td></tr><tr><td>Reallocation</td><td> Austria  Czech Republic  Serbia</td><td> Cuba  Croatia  South Africa  Serbia  Ukraine</td></tr></tbody></table>

Schedule

2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships

<table><thead><tr><th>Event↓/Date →</th><th>Fri 16</th><th>Sat 17</th><th>Sun 18</th><th>Mon 19</th><th>Tue 20</th><th>Wed 21</th><th>Thu 22</th><th>Fri 23</th><th>Sat 24</th><th>Sun 25</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Men's team</td><td>Group</td><td>1/16 F</td><td>1/8 F</td><td>QF</td><td>SF</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>Women's team</td><td>Group</td><td>1/16 F</td><td>1/8 F</td><td>QF</td><td>SF</td><td>F</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

Medal summary

Medal table

     Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	France	0	1	1	2
3	Japan	0	1	0	1
4	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)	2	2	4	8

Medalists

<table><thead><tr><th>Event</th><th>Gold</th><th>Silver</th><th>Bronze</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Men's team</td><td> China Fan Zhendong Wang Chuqin Ma Long Liang Jingkun Lin Gaoyuan</td><td> France Félix Lebrun Alexis Lebrun Simon Gauzy Jules Rolland Lilian Bardet</td><td> South Korea Jang Woo-jin Lim Jong-hoon Lee Sang-su An Jae-hyun Park Gyu-hyeon</td></tr><tr><td> Chinese Taipei Lin Yun-ju Kao Cheng-jui Chuang Chih-yuan Feng Yi-hsin Huang Yan-cheng</td></tr><tr><td>Women's team</td><td> China Sun Yingsha Wang Yidi Chen Meng Wang Manyu Chen Xingtong</td><td> Japan Hina Hayata Mima Ito Miwa Harimoto Miu Hirano Miyuu Kihara</td><td> France Jia Nan Yuan Prithika Pavade Camille Lutz Audrey Zarif Charlotte Lutz</td></tr><tr><td> Hong Kong Zhu Chengzhu Doo Hoi Kem Lam Yee Lok Ng Wing Lam Lee Ho Ching</td></tr></tbody></table>