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2008 ASEAN ParaGames

The 4th ASEAN Para Games sports include archery, athletics, badminton, boccia, chess, fencing, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis.

2014 World Championship of Ping Pong

The "2014 World Championship of Ping Pong" was a table tennis tournament that was held from 4 January 2014 to 5 January 2014 at the Great Hall in Alexandra Palace.

Arab League

other Competitions include the Arab Basketball Federation with annual competitions, Sport Federations also exist for 43 games, include the Volley, Handball, Table Tennis, Tennis, Squash and Swimming.

Barbara Worley

Worley's sporting achievements included winning gold and silver medals in table tennis at the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya

All the hostels have good study environments along with dining halls & common rooms featuring carrom boards, table tennis, magazines & newspapers, widescreen LCD TVs etc. for leisure hours.

Billy Silto

After retirement, Silto settled in the Swindon area where the sporting heritage would continue with his son Joseph Silto playing and later captaining England at Table Tennis playing against notable world names including 5 times World Champion Viktor Barna, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest players of all time.

Chen Chien-an

In May 2013, in the 52nd World Table Tennis Championships held in Paris, France, Chen Chien-an and Chuang Chih-yuan defeated Hao Shuai and Ma Lin 9–11, 12–10, 11–6, 13–11, 9–11, 11–8 in the final, and won Men's Doubles title.

Christophe Legoût

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Legout teamed up with two-time world bronze medalist Damien Éloi in the men's doubles tournament, where the French pair placed first in the preliminary pool round against Canada's Johnny Huang and Kurt Liu, and Argentina's Liu Song and Pablo Tabachnik, receiving four winning matches and a total score of 96 points.

D'Coque

During the 2013 Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) in Luxembourg, Basketball, Volleyball, Table tennis, and Swimming (sport) were hosted in the various sports facilities in d'Coque.

Desmond Douglas

Desmond Douglas MBE (born 1955 in Jamaica) is a British table tennis player, He lived and was brought up in the area of Handsworth, Birmingham, West Midlands.

Enrique Agudo

Enrique Agudo Camacho (born January 1, 1967 in Tarragona) is a Class 10 table tennis athlete from Spain.

Feni Girls Cadet College

The House Indoor Games Room has the facilities of Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess and Scrabble.

Glenunga International High School

William Henzell - Represented Australia at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics in table tennis

Grand Hamad Stadium

The stadium was used extensively during the 2006 Asian Games, and was a venue for several different sports; these include football, table tennis, rugby sevens and fencing.

Jen-Hsun Huang

After leaving Oneida Baptist Institute and moving to Oregon with his family, Huang began playing table tennis at a club in downtown Portland and at age 15, he placed third in junior doubles at the U.S. Open.

Jordi Morales

Jordi Morales García (born November 17, 1985 in Esparreguera, Barcelona) is a Class 7 table tennis athlete from Spain.

Jorge Cardona

Jorge Cardona Marquez (born November 2, 1987 in Zaragoza) is a Class 10 table tennis athlete from Spain.

José Manuel Ruiz Reyes

José Manuel Ruiz Reyes (born July 16, 1978 in Granada) is a Class 10 table tennis athlete from Spain.

Julien Wiener

Wiener's father had early sporting success in table tennis, which Wiener applied to his cricket, playing for Prahran in Melbourne grade cricket.

Li Furong

However, Li lost to compatriot Zhuang Zedong in all of the three finals, making himself become one of four players who played in three finals without winning (together with Hungarian Laszlo Bellak, Polish Alojzy Ehrlich and countryman Ma Lin).

Li Zhenshi

After retiring from competition, Li and his wife Zhang Li moved to the USA, where they direct the World Champions Table Tennis Academy in San Jose, California.

Liberty Games

Their products include arcade games, pool tables, snooker tables, table tennis tables, jukeboxes, pinball machines, retro gaming, air hockey, dartboards, casino tables, outdoor products, driving simulators, slot machines, football tables, and various novelty game products, including multi-game tables, football coffee tables, LED pool tables.

Martin Losu

In June 2012 he began training to represent Indonesia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, together with two other athletics competitors (including Setyo Budi Hartanto), a powerlifter, a swimmer, and a table tennis player.

Michael Maze

Nevertheless, he had managed to put up a memorable performance in the quarterfinals of the competition, coming back from a 3-0 deficit to win 4-3 against another Chinese player, Hao Shuai, saving 3 match points, as well as a win in the previous match against 2004 Olympics Men's singles silver medallist Wang Hao, again from the host nation.

Multiball

A training method in table tennis where balls are continuously fed to the player, either by another player or a ball robot

Noga Nir-Kistler

Noga Nir-Kistler (May 18, 1979) is an Israeli born American Paralympic swimmer and table tennis player who won 2 silver medals at the 2007 Parapan American Games for table tennis singles and doubles.

Pablo Tabachnik

Pablo Ariel Tabachnik (born November 20, 1977 in San Juan, Argentina) is an Argentine table tennis player.

Rashid bin El Hassan

A table tennis champion, Princess Zeina represented Jordan at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where she was also the national flag bearer of Jordan.

Röda tråden

The third portion was "Celebrity chain" (Swedish: Kändiskedjan), where pictures of celebrities were linked together by a common denominator; for example the first picture could have been table tennis player Kjell Johansson, and the next picture could have then been ice hockey goalie Kjell Svensson, etc.

Segun Toriola

Segun Moses Toriola, born 18 September 1974 in Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria is a Nigerian professional table tennis player.

Shenzhen Bay Sports Center

It uses mostly for table tennis, swimming and football competitions and hosted opening ceremony and some competitions of the 2011 Summer Universiade.

Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian

Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian (born July 21, 1989 in Beirut) is a Lebanese table tennis player currently playing for Homenetmen Beirut.

Venugopal Chandrasekhar

Venugopal Chandrasekhar is a former National table tennis champion and Arjuna Award winner from Tamil Nadu, India.

Xu Yan

Xu Yan (table tennis), Singaporean female table tennis player, played in 2005 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles


see also

2007 Games of the Small States of Europe

Stade Louis II, the usual home of AS Monaco FC, hosted athletics, basketball, swimming, and table tennis events.

2011 Pan American Games national flag bearers

Prominent flag bearers included Canadian football star Christine Sinclair, American rower Jason Read, Mexican archer Juan René Serrano and Brazilian table tennis player Hugo Hoyama, who is the all-time Pan American Games leader in total medals won for Brazil.

Andrew Baggaley

Andrew Baggaley was the Table Tennis motion capture actor for the XBox 360 game Kinect Sports.

Antonio Giannini

Antonio Giannini is a table tennis player from Venezuela, champion in the mixed doubles and team competition of the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Bose Kaffo

Bose Kaffo, born 14 December 1972 in Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria is a Nigerian professional table tennis player who competed at five Olympics from 1992 to 2008.

Brana Vlasic

From 2007, Brana was trained by the 1971 Table Tennis World Champion, Stellan Bengtsson.

Glenn Cowan

Glenn L. Cowan (August 25, 1952 – April 6, 2004) was an American table tennis player, and arguably one of two critical personalities, the other being the Chinese table tennis player Zhuang Zedong, in the 1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy which served as a prelude to the normalization of the Sino-American relations.

Hockley

He came away as the overall winner of the under-19 boys group, and progressed into the table tennis finals, held in Cheshire later in the year.

Holmgate

Holmgate Darby and Joan Club, North Street, Holmgate, (01246) 865195 -- Tai Chi Club -- Table Tennis Club -- The Friendly Club

Iskon Internet

It also sponsors Croatian table tennis club Mladost Iskon, ATP Zagreb Indoors and Zagreb Open tennis tournaments, and Motovun Film Festival.

ITTF

International Table Tennis Federation, an international sports governing body for all national table tennis associations

Kaimakli

Achilleas is a Cypriot basketball club founded in 1943, nowadays running basketball, volleyball and table tennis divisions.

Ma Wenge

He won a bronze medal in 1992 Barcelona Olympics Games in men's single, as well as men's team champion of 1995 and 1997 world table tennis championship (together with Wang Tao, Ding Song, Kong Linghui and Liu Guoliang).

Mark Hazinski

Previously, Hazinski was being coached by Danny Seemiller and Mark Nordby, although more currently he is playing for TWU Table Tennis team in Fort Worth, Texas and hasn't had a coach in 2 years.

Matthew Syed

His film, China and Table Tennis, made for the BBC, won bronze medal at the Olympic Golden Rings ceremony in Lausanne in 2008.

My Way to Olympia

The film focuses on Matt Stutzman, an armless American archer; Norwegian table tennis player Aida Dahlen; the Rwandan sitting volleyball team; one-legged German swimmer Christiane Reppe and the tetraplegic Greek boccia player Greg Polychronidis.

Ping-pong diplomacy

According to History of U.S. Table Tennis by American table tennis players and Tim Boggan, who went to China along with the U.S. Table Tennis Team, three incidents may have triggered the invitation from China.

Portugal national table tennis team

Portugal has one of the best Table Tennis team of the World.The team is composed by Marcos Freitas, Tiago Apolónia and João Pedro Monteiro.

Ranjit Singh Gujjar

As a table tennis player, Gujjar has represented India at two international tournaments: the August 2010 Copa Costa Rica International Table Tennis Tournament (San José, Costa Rica), and the December 2010 Asian Para Games (Guangzhou, China).

Sang-eun

Oh Sang-Eun (born 1977), male South Korean table tennis player

Sharath Kamal

He also won the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, beating crowd favourite Australian William Henzell in the final, apart from helping the Indian team clinch gold in the table tennis team event against Singapore.

Singapore at the Olympics

In the 2012 London Olympics, Feng Tianwei beat Kasumi Ishikawa from Japan 4-0 in the Table Tennis Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match, winning Singapore's first individual Olympic medal in 52 years.

Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton

Lady Swinton competed in several Paralympic Games, winning medals for table tennis in 1960, 1964, and 1968.

Table tennis at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Men's singles

The men's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme and took place between December 20 and 21, at the Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

Table tennis at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Men's team

The men's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme and took place between December 17 and 19, at the Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

Table tennis at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Women's singles

The women's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme and took place between December 20 and 21, at the Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

Table tennis at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games – Women's team

The women's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme and took place between December 17 and 19, at the Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

Tambyah Murugaser

Entering the University of Ceylon, he became captain of its cricket team and played tennis and table tennis for the University.

Tiago Apolónia

Tiago Apolónia (born July 28, 1986 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese table tennis player, who is currently playing for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen.

TTV Super League

The Table Tennis Victoria Super League commenced on Good Friday, 6 April 2007, with its first ever Team Draft.

UAAP Season 71

The UAAP Season 71 Table Tennis tournament began on September 20, 2008 at the Blue Eagle Gym inside the Ateneo de Manila University campus.

Xiaoling

Zhang Xiaoling (张小玲; born 1957), female Paralympic table tennis player

Xue Li

Li Xue (born 1985), Chinese born French table tennis player

Zeina Shaban

At the tender age of ten, she made her inaugural international appearance at the U.S. Open Table Tennis Tournament in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she displayed her exquisite talent and performance to obtain the tournament title in the women's under-10 category.