Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's individual – Class 3 explained
The Men's individual table tennis – Class 3 tournament at the 2020 Summer Paralympics[1] in Tokyo is taking place between 25 and 29 August 2021 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Classes 1–5 are for athletes with a physical impairment that affected their legs, and who compete in a sitting position. The lower the number, the greater the impact the impairment is on an athlete's ability to compete.
In the preliminary stage, athletes competed in seven groups of three. Winners and runners-up of each group qualified for the knock-out stage, with the best two group winners receiving a bye to the quarter-finals and the other 12 teams playing from the round of 16. In this edition of the Games, no bronze medal match will be held. Losers of each semifinal will automatically be awarded a bronze medal.
Results
All times are local time in UTC+9.
Preliminary round
The first two matches were played on 25 August, and the third on 26 August.
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Group A
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 1 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +36 | 1 |
| 14 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | –12 | 2 |
| 16 | | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | –24 | 3 | |
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Group B
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 2 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +31 | 1 |
| 15 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | –10 | 2 |
| 13 | | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –21 | 3 | |
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Group C
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 3 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +23 | 1 |
| 12 | | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | –16 | 2 |
| 17 | | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –7 | 3 | |
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Group D
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 4 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +26 | 1 |
| 21 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | –15 | 2 |
| 10 | | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | –11 | 3 | |
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Group E
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 8 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +10 | 1 |
| 20 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | –10 | 2 |
| 5 | (w/o) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
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Alexander Öhgren developed symptoms of having a cold. While he did text negative for Covid-19 he was nevertheless forced to withdraw from the competition.
Group F
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 6 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +39 | 1 |
| 11 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 2 |
| 19 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | –43 | 3 | |
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Group G
| Seed | Athlete | Matches won | Matches lost | Games won | Games lost | Points
diff | Rank |
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| 7 | | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +9 | 1 |
| 18 | | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | –9 | 2 |
| 9 | (w/o) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
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Knockout stage
Notes and References
- Web site: Table Tennis - Men's Singles - Class 5 Schedule. Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 23 August 2021. 23 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210823130524/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/table-tennis/event-schedule-men-s-singles-class-5.htm. dead.
