Table tennis
Singles, doubles and team competition at the table.
People in Table tennis
22 profiles
AthleteMa Long
Winning consecutive Olympic table-tennis singles titles.
AthleteJan-Ove Waldner
Winning table tennis’s Olympic, world and World Cup singles titles.
AthleteLiu Guoliang
Winning table tennis’s major singles titles before coaching China.
AthleteKong Linghui
Completing table tennis’s career singles Grand Slam.
AthleteWang Liqin
Winning three table-tennis world singles championships.
AthleteZhang Jike
Completing table tennis’s career Grand Slam in 445 days.
AthleteXu Xin
Combining inventive penhold play with major doubles and team titles.
AthleteFan Zhendong
Completing table tennis’s career Grand Slam with Paris Olympic gold.
AthleteDeng Yaping
Winning singles and doubles gold at two consecutive Olympics.
AthleteWang Nan
Winning Olympic gold and three consecutive world singles titles.
AthleteDing Ning
Completing table tennis’s singles Grand Slam with Rio Olympic gold.
AthleteLiu Shiwen
Winning five women’s table tennis World Cups.
AthleteChen Meng
Winning Olympic table tennis singles gold in Tokyo and Paris.
AthleteSun Yingsha
Winning world singles and Olympic mixed doubles table tennis titles.
AthleteJörgen Persson
Winning the 1991 table tennis world singles title and representing Sweden at seven Olympic Games.
AthleteHyun Jung-hwa
Winning Olympic doubles gold and world titles in all four table-tennis disciplines.
AthleteTimo Boll
Becoming a world number one in table tennis and a mainstay of Germany’s Olympic teams.
AthleteLi Xiaoxia
The table tennis champion who won the Olympics, World Championships and World Cup in women’s singles.
AthleteRyu Seung-min
Winning Olympic table-tennis singles gold in Athens in 2004.
AthleteFeng Tianwei
Helping Singapore defeat China for the 2010 women’s world team table-tennis title.
AthleteYoo Nam-kyu
Winning the first Olympic men’s singles table tennis title in Seoul in 1988.
AthleteMima Itō
Winning Japan’s first Olympic table-tennis gold with Jun Mizutani.