2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships Explained

Competition:	2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Venue:	Westfalenhallen
Location:	Dortmund, Germany
Dates:	25 March–1 April
Previous:	2010
Next:	2014

The 2012 Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships were held at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, Germany from March 25 to April 1, 2012.^[1] It was the 51st edition to be contested.^[2] 120 men's teams and 92 women's teams were allocated to different divisions according to the final ranking of the previous World Team Table Tennis Championships and the ITTF World Team Rankings.^[3] ^[4] The winner of the first division, called the Championship Division, was crowned as the new champion.

To be eligible to have a team entered for the team events in 2012 Summer Olympics, the ITTF member association must have participated in the tournament.^[5] The ranking of the 2012 Championships was taken into account for the Olympic qualification after the final world Olympic qualification tournament, which was held from May 10 to May 13.

Seeding

The Championship Division comprised 24 teams. The top 18 teams of the Championship Division at the 2010 World Team Championships were guaranteed a spot in the championship division.^[6] The top two teams of the Second Division in 2010 automatically advanced to the Championship Division in 2012. The other four spots were announced according to the ITTF World Team Rankings published in February, 2012.

width=200	Qualification	width=300	Men's team	width=300	Women's team
Top eighteen in 2010^[7]
Top two of the 2nd Division in 2010
ITTF World Team Rankings (ranking in February)^[8]	(12) (16) (20) (21)	(14) (19) (20) (21)

Medal summary

Events

Men's team	Ma Long Zhang Jike Wang Hao Xu Xin Ma Lin	Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Patrick Baum Bastian Steger Christian Süß	Joo Se-Hyuk Ryu Seung-Min Oh Sang-Eun Kim Min-Seok Jung Young-Sik
			Jun Mizutani Seiya Kishikawa Koki Niwa Kenji Matsudaira Maharu Yoshimura
Women's team	Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Guo Yan Li Xiaoxia Guo Yue	Feng Tianwei Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Sun Beibei Yu Mengyu	Tie Ya Na Jiang Huajun Lee Ho Ching Ng Wing Nam Yu Kwok See
			Kim Kyung-Ah Dang Ye-Seo Seok Ha-Jung Yang Ha-Eun Park Mi-Young

Medal table

Results

Men's team

See main article: 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Men's team.

Women's team

See main article: 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships – Women's team.

External links

- ITTF.com

Notes and References

http://www.ittf.com/World_Events/wttc_2012/timescheduleWTTC2012.pdf Competition schedule
Web site: ITTF Calendar . ittf.com . 14 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110616210319/http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf2.asp?category=calendar . 16 June 2011 . dead .
Web site: Men's Teams List . ittf.com . 27 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326165432/http://portal.ittf.com/ittf_team_events/ittf_teams_web.asp?TEAM_NO=&Tour_ID=2097&Gender=M . 2012-03-26 . dead .
Web site: Women's Teams List . ittf.com . 27 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326165750/http://portal.ittf.com/ittf_team_events/ittf_teams_web.asp?TEAM_NO=&Tour_ID=2097&Gender=W . 2012-03-26 . dead .
Web site: Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad . ITTF . PDF . 14 May 2011.
Web site: 2012 World Team Playing System . ITTF . PDF . 26 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120416235733/http://www.ittf.com/world_events/wttc_2012/Playing_system_WTTC2012.pdf . 16 April 2012 .
Web site: Final positions of the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships . ittf.com . 26 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316034005/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_team_events/Positions_WTTC_2010.html . 16 March 2012 .
Web site: ITTF World Team Ranking . ittf.com . 26 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120411021909/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_ranking/ittf_team_ranking.html . 11 April 2012 .