OUR DREAM IS TO SPEAK IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES!
2016 Olympics
4th day of the team tournament
Table tennis champions and prize-winners have become known at 2016 Olympics among women. On July 16, the match for the third place and the final took place. Tennis players from Japan and Singapore competed for the bronze. For gold - China and Germany. The results of these matches were, in general, predictable.
3rd day of the team tournament
Coming to the end of the competition table tennis in Rio de Janeiro... On July 15, semifinal matches were played for men and women, which means that the teams that will compete for Olympic gold were determined. Almost all the participants in the final are from Asia. Today, one might say, the last European page in the history of table tennis at the 2016 Olympics was written. From this day, the triumph of Asian athletes begins.
2nd day of the team tournament
On the Olympic Games in Brazil only representatives of Eurasian table tennis remained. All other continents - America, Africa and Australia - have lost their athletes, although some of them have shown a very bright and meaningful game. Cm. .
1st day of the team tournament
The command part has begun table tennis competitions in men and women. By this hour, the women had completed one-eighth of the final (first stage) and half of the quarterfinals. The men play out one eighth. A total of 16 teams in each part of the tournament. Not every country that has fielded tennis players has the right to play here. Continents before the Olympics fought for quotas, and now in Rio de Janeiro representatives from all over the planet came.
The dominance of table tennis is again visible
Table tennis at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
Photo: TEH ENG KOON / AFP
A game called a board game, but requiring dexterity and dexterity, as well as a high reaction speed and mastery of technique? Table tennis , which is also called ping pong. This is a sport that requires a special table, celluloid ball and rackets. Players throw the ball, bouncing it according to the rules accepted in this sport. If the opposing team hits the ball with a mistake or misses the service, then this is considered a point. The game is played up to eleven points.
Table tennis players
Table tennis competitions will be held at the Summer Olympics. Participants - 172 athletes from all over the world. Men and women will be equally divided: 86 people. One country can represent no more than six athletes (of which no more than three men and no more than three women).
Russian table tennis athletes participate in individual championships, but the country did not qualify for team games. Traditionally, the leaders of table tennis competitions in recent decades have been Chinese athletes. They will also come to the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.
Qualifying is done based on the International Table Tennis Federation ranking. Quotas will go to 44 players. An additional 40 quotas will be allocated when the qualifiers are completed on each continent. Brazil as the host country additionally receives one quota. If necessary, a tripartite commission will distribute the remaining places for the Summer Olympics.
Qualification competitions and championships will be held in singles and teams. The Olympic program includes both men's and women's single and double table tennis. Table tennis entered the official program of the Olympics in 1988, first demonstrated by the Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Table tennis competition calendar
Competitions in this discipline of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be held from 6 to 17 August in the third pavilion of the Riocentro.
Singles:
- August 6. Women: preliminary round, round 1, round 2. Men: preliminary round, round 1.
- August 7. Women: Round 2, Round 3. Men: Round 2, Round 3.
- 8 August. Women: Round 3, Round 4. Men: Round 3, Round 4.
- August 9. Women: quarterfinals. Men: quarterfinals.
- August 10. Women: semi-final, final, fight for 3rd place.
- 11th August. Men: semi-finals, finals of the competition, wrestling for 3rd place.
Team championship:
- 12th of August. Women: Round 1 (8 matches). Men: Round 1 (4 matches).
- August 13. Women: quarterfinals. Men: Round 1 (4 matches).
- August 14th. Women: semi-finals. Men: quarterfinals.
- August 15. Women: semi-finals. Men: semi-finals.
- August 16. Women: final, match for 3rd place.
Table tennis is a game, the essence of which is to throw a special celluloid ball over a net stretched over a special table. The table is 9 'x 5' (2.74m x 1.525m) and 30 '' (76cm) high.
There are many famous people among table tennis fans - Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Blair, Lech Walesa, Luciano Pavarotti, Sergei Kirienko, Viktor Chernomyrdin and even Mao Zedong. And the singer Anne Veski once became the table tennis champion of Estonia.
OLYMPIC GAMES
Table tennis competitions in singles and doubles first appeared in the program of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. The team rank replaced the doubles at the 2008 Beijing Games.
RUSSIA
At the Olympic level, Russian players have not yet achieved any noticeable results.
Photo - Sergey Kivrin and Andrey Golovanov
Table tennis is a game, the essence of which is to throw a special celluloid ball over a net stretched over a special table. The table is 9 'x 5' (2.74m x 1.525m) and 30 '' (76cm) high. The ball is thrown using wooden rackets covered with rubber on both sides. The ball must be colored white or orange. Each rally ends with the assignment of one point to one or the other player (team). According to modern international rules established in 2001, each game is played up to 11 points. The player also earns a point if his opponent made one of the mistakes. These include: not hitting the ball; incorrect feed; double hitting the ball on your side of the table; falling of the ball to the side of the batter after hitting; bouncing the ball before it lands on the side of the player's table; touching the ball with a racket and wrist; touching the table surface with the free hand or moving the table.
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The Olympic Games are the largest sporting events of our time, held every four years. They figure prominently in the social life of the planet, contributing to the strengthening of cooperation and the prestige of physical culture and sports. "Citius, altius, fortius!" ("Faster, higher, stronger!") - this is the motto of the Olympic Games. It reflected the eternal striving of mankind for progress, the development of natural abilities. Participation in the Olympic Games is considered important and honorable. Olympic champions at all times have been the national heroes of their countries.
Over its almost century-old history, table tennis has recently become an Olympic sport. By the decision of the 79th session of the International Olympic Committee in 1977 (Prague), table tennis was included in the family of Olympic sports, and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was recognized as the governing federation of the sport and meeting all the criteria of the Olympic Charter. Only some time later, at the 1981 IOC Congress in Baden-Baden, it was decided to include table tennis in the program of the 1988 Olympic Games in four types of individual competitions: in men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles.
Since 1988, table tennis has been a regular part of the Summer Olympic Games, which has given a strong impetus to the development of the game (see the results in Appendix 3). Most sports leaders in highly developed countries have turned their attention to table tennis as a medal-intensive sport. Requirements for the quality of training of athletes, methods and means of training have increased. The quality of the inventory has improved significantly. Many countries around the world invite the strongest Chinese tennis players to conduct joint training sessions, as well as highly qualified Chinese coaches to work with national teams.
In a number of countries, sports leaders have followed the path of inviting leading tennis players - representatives of countries leading in modern table tennis (China, Korea, Thailand, etc.) to permanent residence, in order to include them in their national teams. Germany has chosen a different strategy: leading foreign tennis players are invited to participate in domestic competitions in order to improve their playing level, and their athletes are represented at international competitions.
As the results of the World Championships and the Olympic Games of the last twenty years show, the leading positions in all categories are occupied by the tennis players of the East Asian countries, and the first place is taken by the athletes of the PRC (Table 2.3).
All five Olympiads, the "small racket" masters from Southeast Asia demonstrate their great skill. They are winning more Olympic medals than all Europeans. So, at the XXIV Olympic Games in 1988 in Seoul, only Swede E. Lindh won the bronze medal among men. Yeo Nam Kyu won the gold medal and Kim Ki Taek won the silver medal - both from South Korea. Gold medals in men's doubles were won by Chinese tennis players Chen Longkan and Wei Qingzhuang, silver by Yugoslavs Ilya Lupulescu and Zoltan Primorak, and bronze by Koreans Yeo Nam Kyu and Ehn Jae Hyung.
Among women, all the medals in single competitions were won by Chinese women: gold with Chen Jin, silver with Li Haifeng and bronze with Zhao. Jimin. In doubles gold was won by Korean women Yang Yong Ya and Hyun Zhang Hua, silver by Chinese women Zhao Jimin and Chen Jin, and bronze by Yugoslav tennis players Jasna Fazilik and Gordana Perkusin.
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Table 2.3 Champions of the Olympic Games in Table Tennis 1988 - 2004 |
Soviet table tennis was represented by V. Popova, F. Bulatova, G. Melnik, A. Mazunov, V. Dvorak. F. Bulatova and V. Popova managed to pass the East Asian screen and showed a relatively high result, entering the six strongest athletes of the Olympic Games in the women's singles category (F. Bulatova - 5th place, V. Popova - 6th place), bringing the national team team of the country score points.
At the XXV Summer Olympic Games in 1992, the experienced Swedish tennis player, world champion Jan-Uwe Waldner, put up a worthy resistance to the masters of the Asian school - he won gold in the men's singles category. The second place went to the Frenchman Jean-Paul Gottien. Bronze, however, went to Chinese and Korean athletes.
For women, the singles final, just like four years ago, turned out to be Chinese. Gold from Deng Yaping, silver from Zhao Hong, bronze from Korean Li Boon Hugh. In men's doubles, gold was won by Lu Liying - Wang Tao (China), silver by German tennis players Stefan Fetzner-Jorg Rosskopf, bronze by Korean tennis players Kang Hee Chan-Lee Chul Seung and Kim Su - Yo Nam Kyu. All the medals in the women's doubles were won by Asian tennis players. The first place was taken by the Chinese women Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong, the second place also by the Chinese women Chen Zih - Gao Zhong, and the third place was shared by the Korean women Lee Bun Hugh - Yu Sun Bok and Hong Cha Ok - Hyun Zhang Hua.
The right to participate in these Olympic Games, having played in a series of international tournaments, was won in individual singles by brothers A. and D. Mazunov, M. Shmyrev, and among women - veteran of our national team, Honored Master of Sports V. Popova, G. Melnik and E. Timina. The Mazunov brothers were allowed to participate in the men's doubles and Popova-Melnik and Palina-Timina in the women's doubles. It was not possible to show the result in singles, but all three of our pairs entered the top eight.
At the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, the final was Chinese in the men's singles: gold for Liu Gualyan, silver for Wang Tao, and German athlete Jorg Rosskopf won the bronze medal in a bitter struggle. In women's singles, tennis players from China and Taiwan were again among the prize-winners.
In doubles, as well as at the previous Games, medals of all merits - both for men and women - were won by Asian athletes, once again proving the advantages of the Asian school of play. In men, the Chinese pair Kong Linghua - Liu Guoliang won gold, and the Chinese pair Liu Ling-Wang Tao also won silver, the Koreans Li Chul Seun - Yeo Nam Kyu. In women, gold won by the Chinese pair Deng Yaping - Kuao Hong, silver by the Chinese pair Li Wei - Kuo Yongping, bronze by the Korean tennis players Pak Nai Zhong
Ru Zhi Hai.
Our country at these Olympic Games was represented by D and A. Mazunovs, G. Melnik and I. Palina.
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney (Australia), competitions were held in 28 sports, including table tennis. Of the 200 countries that took part in the Games, 48 countries sent their athletes to the table tennis tournament in which 171 athletes took part (in total, over 10,000 Olympians competed in Sydney). At these Olympic Games, Russia was represented only by the women's team - it managed to win tickets to the Olympics. According to the regulation, three tennis players, men and women, could take part from each country. G. Melnik, I. Palina and O. Kushch spoke on behalf of Russia. G. Melnik and I. Palina showed themselves from the best side in preliminary individual singles competitions and advanced to the Final Group, where 32 tennis players from 17 countries of the world continued to fight for gold, and only 12 of them were representatives of European countries. Sportswomen of Chinese origin played for the USA and New Zealand, Germany and Luxembourg.
All of the four possible gold medals in the disciplines played, as in the previous Olympic Games in Atlanta, went to the Chinese masters of the "small racket". In the men's singles final, the 34-year-old Swedish table tennis veteran, 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Uwe Waldner, lost to rising Chinese table tennis star Kong Linghua in a bitter struggle.
Once again, Asians had no equal among women. In the final of the women's singles, the Chinese woman Wang Nan confidently defeated her compatriot Li Tszyu and became the winner of the Games.
At the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games in 2004, which were held in honor of the centenary of the modern Olympics in Af Inakh to represent the Russian national team in the network of qualifying competitions won the right: in singles - Muscovite E. Fadeev and S. Ganina from Nizhny Novgorod; in men's doubles - A. Smirnov - D. Mazunov; in women's doubles S. Ganina - I. Palina and G. Melnik - O. Fadeeva. And again, in the final stage of the Olympic tournament, the medals were shared by Chinese and Korean tennis players.
In the men's doubles, the Russian pair D. Mazunov - A. Smirnov achieved, however, unprecedented success - entered the four strongest Olympic couples, persistently losing the bronze with a score of 2: 4 to tennis players from Denmark.
The Olympic Games are not only a certain stage in the formation and development of table tennis, but also a criterion for assessing the technical and tactical skill of athletes and the balance of power in the world arena, where the advantage today is on the side of East Asian tennis players.