Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

See main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics. An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 3 women athletes in singles events and up to 1 men's and 1 women's team in teams events.

Summary

Nation	Men	Women	Total
width=80	Individual !	width=80	Team !	width=80	Individual !	width=80	Team
	1				1
	2				2
	3	X	3	X	6
	3	X	2	X	6
	1		3		4
	1				1
	2	X	1		4
			1		1
	2	X	2		5
	3	X	3	X	6
	2	X	2		5
			1		1
	1		1		2
	2	X	3	X	6
	1		1		2
	1				1
	1		2	X	4
	3		2		5
	3		1		4
	3	X	2	X	6
	2	X			3
	3	X	3	X	6
	1		3		4
	1		1		2
	1				1
	1		2		3
	3	X	3	X	6
			1		1
			1		1
	1				1
			1		1
			1		1
			1		1
			2	X	3
	2	X	2	X	6
	3		2		5
	1				1
	1		2	X	4
	3				3
	1		2	X	4
	2	X	3		6
	1				1
	2	X	3	X	6
			1		1
	1				1
	3	X	3	X	6
	2		2	X	5
	2	X			3
			1		1
	1				1
	1		1		2
	1		2		3
	1		3	X	4
			1		1
			1		1
	1				1
Total: 56 NOCs	77	16	78	16	172

Singles

Men

A total of 64 athletes will qualify for each singles event as follows:

Event	Date	Location	Qualifiers
ITTF World Ranking	January 3, 2008	-	Wang Hao Ma Lin Timo Boll Vladimir Samsonov Ryu Seung-Min Oh Sang-Eun Gao Ning Li Ching Chuang Chih-Yuan Kalinikos Kreanga Werner Schlager Kan Yo Dimitrij Ovtcharov Alexei Smirnov Yang Zi Ko Lai Chak Zoran Primorac Michael Maze He Zhi Wen Jörgen Persson
	July 11–23, 2007		Segun Toriola Monday Merotohun El-Sayed Lashin Suraju Saka Idir Khourta Adel Massaad
Middle Asia Qualification Tournament	October 15–18, 2007		Afshin Norouzi
South East Asia Qualification Tournament	February 2–3, 2008		Doan Kien Quoc
West Asia Qualification Tournament	February 6–8, 2008		Ibrahem Al-Hasan
South Central Asia Qualification Tournament	March 6–9, 2008		Sharath Kamal
Asian Qualification Tournament	March 6–9, 2008		Wang Liqin Kim Hyok Bong Ri Chol Guk Jun Mizutani Yoon Jae-Young Seiya Kishikawa Jang Song Man
	July 21–27, 2007		Lin Ju
Latin American Qualification Tournament *	Mar 30 - Apr 6, 2008		Liu Song Gustavo Tsuboi Thiago Monteiro Dexter St Louis Pablo Tabachnik
North American Qualification Tournament	April 4–6, 2008		Zhang Peng Pradeeban Peter-Paul David Zhuang
European Qualification Tournament	April 2–6, 2008		Tan Ruiwu Jens Lundqvist Bojan Tokič Robert Gardos Christian Süß Chen Weixing Panagiotis Gionis João Monteiro Patrick Chila Christophe Legout Fedor Kuzmin
Oceania Qualification Tournament	April 5–8, 2008		William Henzell Kyle Davis David Zalcberg
Final World Qualification Tournament	May 8–11, 2008		Cheung Yuk Chiang Peng-Lung Jean-Michel Saive
Tripartite Commission Invitation	May 11, 2008	-	Marcelo Aguirre
Additional**	May 8–11, 2008		Adrian Crisan Ahmed Ali Saleh Cem Zeng Damien Eloi Marcos Freitas Janos Jakab Aleksandar Karakašević Mihai Bobocica Kou Lei Petr Korbel Tiago Apolonia Alfredo Carneros Lucjan Błaszczyk
TOTAL			77

Women

Event	Date	Location	Qualifiers
ITTF World Ranking	January 3, 2008	-	Guo Yue Zhang Yining Wang Yuegu Li Jiawei Ai Fukuhara Kim Kyung-Ah Wu Jiaduo Sayaka Hirano Liu Jia Li Jiao Gao Jun Park Mi-Young Tamara Boroš Li Qian Wang Chen Krisztina Tóth Lau Sui Fei Daniela Dodean Elke Schall Ni Xia Lian
	July 11–23, 2007		Yang Fen Bose Kaffo Cecilia Offiong Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Noha Yossry Victorine Agum Fomum
Middle Asia Qualification Tournament	October 15–18, 2007		Marina Shumakova
South East Asia Qualification Tournament	February 2–3, 2008		Feng Tian Wei
West Asia Qualification Tournament	February 6–8, 2008		Zeina Shaban
South Central Asia Qualification Tournament	March 6–9, 2008		Neha Aggarwal
Asian Qualification Tournament	March 6–9, 2008		Dang Ye-Seo Nanthana Komwong Wang Nan Haruna Fukuoka Kim Jong Kim Mi Yong Huang I-hua
Latin American Qualification Tournament	Mar 30 - Apr 6, 2008		Wu Xue Fabiola Ramos Mariany Nonaka Lian Qian Paula Medina Yadira Silva
North American Qualification Tournament	April 4–6, 2008		Crystal Huang Zhang Mo Judy Long
European Qualification Tournament	April 2–6, 2008		Li Jie Viktoria Pavlovich Elizabeta Samara Melek Hu Xian Yi Fang Svetlana Ganina Sandra Paović Xu Jie Li Qiangbing Zhu Fang Tan Wenling Monfardini
Oceania Qualification Tournament	April 5–8, 2008		Lay Jian Fang Stéphanie Sang Xu Miao Miao
Final World Qualification Tournament	May 8–11, 2008		Tie Yana Lin Ling Shen Yanfei
Tripartite Commission Invitation	May 11, 2008	-	Priscila Tommy
Additional**	May 8–11, 2008		Georgina Pota Irina Kotikhina Pan Li-chun Tatyana Kostromina Nikoleta Stefanova Margaryta Pesotska Andrea Bakula Oksana Fadeeva Petra Lovas Veronika Pavlovich Eva Odorova Dana Hadacova Ruta Paskauskiene Tetyana Sorochinskaya
TOTAL			78

* 1 spot taken at the 2007 Pan-Americans Games.

** Unused quotas for team event.

Teams

Qualification process

A total of 16 teams will qualify for each teams event as follows:

• 6 - top team from each continent
• 1 - Host Nation (CHN) direct entry (if not qualified as top team from Asia)
• 9 - remaining selected teams (or 10 if CHN qualifies as top team from Asia)

Each team will consist of 3 players and they don't have to participate in singles events (there are 22 additional athletes quota places for such players). Teams will be selected after all singles qualification events, and according to a special May 2008 team ranking list. Qualification will be awarded first to the highest ranked teams with three players qualified for the singles event. If the quota hasn't been filled, selection will proceed to teams with two players qualified for the singles event, then to teams with only one singles qualifier.

If the field of 16 teams is filled without using all of the 22 athletes quota places, any unused places will be added to the Final World Qualification Tournament to select additional singles players. In order to select the Teams only the 64 qualified players will be taken intoconsideration to establish the Special Olympic Computer Team Ranking (SOCTR). The SOCTR will be calculated in the same way as we calculate the current ITTF Computer Team Ranking now. The difference is that: Only the 64 players qualified will be considered to establish the SOCTR for the purpose of selecting the Teams.

• General notes:
  • Teams will appear on the board when they qualified two or more athletes. If it becomes apparent that some countries with only one single entry will qualify for the team event, then the appropriate nations will be added to the board.
  • Nations highlighted in green qualify for the team event. The letter under "qualify as" represent how the team qualified: H means as the host nation, C means as the best team of the continent (China can qualify as HC if they become the best Asian team), and W meaning one of the ten highest ranked team that has not qualified as the best team of its respective continent. R means the team has been selected as a reserve.

Men

width=200	Country	width=60	Qualified Athletes	width=60	Points	width=60	Qualified as
	3	38406.75	HC
	3	36516.25	W
	3	36385.75	C
	3	36049.25	W
	3	35804.00	W
	3	35689.25	W
	3	34599.25	-
	3	33004.25	C
	2	24132.00	W
	2	24081.75	W
	2	23788.75	W
	2	23769.25	W
	2	23721.00	W
	2	23612.00	W
	2	23539.50	-
	2	23031.50	C
	2	22784.50	-
	2	22615.75	C
	2	22542.00	C
	2	22154.50	-

Women

width=200	Country	width=60	Qualified Athletes	width=60	Points	width=60	Qualified as
	3	38270.25	HC
	3	37103.50	W
	3	36212.00	W
	3	36194.75	W
	3	36172.00	W
	3	35146.25	C
	3	34140.75	C
	2	23974.50	C
	2	23924.25	W
	2	23865.50	W
	2	23778.00	W
	2	23630.75	W
	2	23591.75	W
	2	23589.50	W
	2	23383.75	-
	2	23149.75	C
	2	22521.00	-
	2	21879.75	C

References

• Teams Qualified for the Olympic Games
• Players Qualified for the Olympic Games