| Event: | Table tennis – men's team |
| Games: | 2012 Summer |
| Venue: | ExCeL London |
| Date: | 3 August to 8 August |
| Competitors: | 48 |
| Nations: | 16 |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Gold: | Wang Hao Zhang Jike Ma Long |
| Goldnoc: | CHN |
| Silver: | Oh Sang-Eun Joo Se-Hyuk Ryu Seung-Min |
| Silvernoc: | KOR |
| Bronze: | Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Bastian Steger |
| Bronzenoc: | GER |
| Prev: | 2008 |
| Next: | 2016 |
See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The men's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Friday 3 August to Wednesday 8 August 2012 at ExCeL London.[1] The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists.
See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).
| Dates[2] | Start time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| 3 August | 19:00 | First round |
| 4 August | 10:00 | |
| 5 August | 10:00 | Quarterfinals |
| 6 August | 14:30 | Semifinals |
| 8 August | 11:00 | Bronze medal match |
| 15:30 | Gold medal match |
Team ranking was based on the individual Ranking List of July 2012, taking into consideration those players qualified from each team.[1] [3]
| Rank | Team | Athletes (world ranking on 4 July)[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zhang Jike (1) | Ma Long (2) | Wang Hao (4) | ||
| 2 | Joo Se-Hyuk (10) | Oh Sang-Eun (11) | Ryu Seung-Min (17) | ||
| 3 | Jun Mizutani (5) | Koki Niwa (16) | Seiya Kishikawa (21) | ||
| 4 | Timo Boll (7) | Dimitrij Ovtcharov (12) | Bastian Steger (24) | ||
| 5 | Gao Ning (15) | Zhan Jian (25) | Yang Zi (54) | ||
| 6 | Jiang Tianyi (20) | Tang Peng (32) | Leung Chu Yan (35) | ||
| 7 | Robert Gardos (29) | Chen Weixing (32) | Werner Schlager (47) | ||
| 8 | Marcos Freitas (31) | Tiago Apolónia (34) | João Monteiro (39) | ||
| 9 | Alexander Shibaev (29) | Kirill Skachkov (41) | Alexey Smirnov (46) | ||
| 10 | Jens Lundqvist (51) | Pär Gerell (80) | Jörgen Persson (90) | ||
| 11 | Jang Song-Man (59) | Kim Hyok-Bong (77) | Kim Song-Nam (181) | ||
| 12 | Gustavo Tsuboi (104) | Thiago Monteiro (126) | Hugo Hoyama (217) | ||
| 13 | Paul Drinkhall (107) | Andrew Baggaley (133) | Liam Pitchford (143) | ||
| 14 | El-sayed Lashin (123) | Ahmed Saleh (157) | Omar Assar (209) | ||
| 15 | Eugene Wang (113) | Pierre-Luc Hinse (305) | Andre Ho (393) | ||
| 16 | William Henzell (130) | Justin Han (386) | Robert Frank (434) | ||
The draw for team events took place on 25 July 2012.[5]
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