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Tokyo Olympic 2021 Table Tennis

Tokyo Olympics Table Tennis will be organized during the summer 2021. There are also some special rules for table tennis in this Olympic Games.

TOKYO 2021 | LIST OF QUALIFIED MEN TEAMS

NO.	TEAM	NOC	CONTINENT	STATUS
1	GERMANY	GER	EUROPE	Confirmed
2	EGYPT	EGY	AFRICA	Confirmed
3	CHINA	CHN	ASIA	Confirmed
4	USA	USA	AMERICA	Confirmed
5	BRAZIL	BRA	AMERICA	Confirmed
6	AUSTRALIA	AUS	OCEANIA	Confirmed
7	JAPAN	JPN(Host)	ASIA	Confirmed
8	KOREA	KOR	ASIA	Confirmed
9	SLOVENIA	SLO	EUROPE	Confirmed
10	CROATIA	CRO	EUROPE	Confirmed
11	SWEDEN	SWE	EUROPE	Confirmed
12	FRANCE	FRA	EUROPE	Confirmed
13	PORTUGAL	POR	EUROPE	Confirmed
14	SERBIA	SRB	EUROPE	Confirmed
15	TAIPEI	TPE	ASIA	Confirmed
16	HONG KONG	HKG	ASIA	Confirmed

The men are Tomokazu Harimoto, Jun Mizutani and Koki Niwa; for the women it is Mima Ito, Kasumi Ishikawa and Miu Hirano

TOKYO 2021 | LIST OF QUALIFIED WOMEN TEAMS

NO.	TEAM	NOC	CONTINENT	STATUS
1	GERMANY	GER	EUROPE	Confirmed
2	EGYPT	EGY	AFRICA	Confirmed
3	CHINA	CHN	ASIA	Confirmed
4	USA	USA	AMERICA	Confirmed
5	BRAZIL	BRA	AMERICA	Confirmed
6	AUSTRALIA	AUS	OCEANIA	Confirmed
7	JAPAN	JPN	HOST	Confirmed
8	HONG KONG	HKG	ASIA	Confirmed
9	AUSTRIA	AUT	EUROPE	Confirmed
10	POLAND	POL	EUROPE	Confirmed
11	DPR KOREA	PRK	ASIA	Confirmed
12	SINGAPORE	SGP	ASIA	Confirmed
13	HUNGARY	HUN	EUROPE	Confirmed
14	ROMANIA	ROU	EUROPE	Confirmed
15	TAIPEI	TPE	ASIA	Confirmed
16	KOREA	KOR	ASIA	Confirmed

The successful United States team (Photo courtesy of Table Tennis USA) — The United States team (Photo courtesy of Table Tennis USA)

Major table tennis events in 2021

For table tennis, there are some major events in 2021.

MOTIF, the new Olympic table tennis table, which will be used during the event. (Fabricated by San-ei table tennis)

June

2021 World Table Tennis Championships Finals, Houston, Texas (USA): 17-26 Jun

July

Tokyo Olympics 2021 (date to be confirmed)

August

None

September

2021 European Championships, Cluj-Napoca (ROU): 28 Sep – 3 Oct

Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 is postponed

The Tokyo Olympics originally scheduled for 2020 are postponed “no later than the summer of 2021” due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced (source: Official announcement).

Olympic Committee Made The Unfortunate Decision To Postpone The Olympics For Next Summer Due To The Coronovirus Outbreak

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) finally announced on Tuesday March 24 that it had decided to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games, at the latest in the summer of 2021. The Olympic Games were initially scheduled to take place this summer from July 24 to August 9, 2020.

Olympics Games Table Tennis 2020 is reported to next year

Table tennis athletes will have one more year to prepare for the “Tokyo Olympics 2021”.

ITTF supports decision to postpone Tokyo Olympics

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday expressed support to the decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“As partners of the IOC since 1988, we at the ITTF have lived very good times,” said the ITTF President Thomas Weikert.
“We have grown as an Olympic sport and, more than ever, we are here to say that we wholeheartedly support today’s IOC decision.”