Table Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Dates 14 – 23 August 2004
Medal Events 4

Men and women again competed in singles and doubles. But the formats were completely different. There were no longer any qualifying round-robin pools. The tournament was strictly single-elimination, with seeding done by world ranking. In the singles, the 33-64 ranked players played in round one, and were joined in round two by the players seeded 17-32. The winners in round two then met the top 16 seeds in round three. Thus, the first three rounds always had 32 players and 16 matches. A similar format was used in doubles, with the 17-32 ranked teams playing in round, joined by the 9-16 seeds in round two, and the 1-8 seeds were given byes into round three. In addition, the matches were different. They were no longer best of three or five games played to 21, but all matches were best of seven games played to 11.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Singles, Men Olympic 14 – 23 August 2004 64 39
Doubles, Men Olympic 15 – 21 August 2004 64 25
Singles, Women Olympic 14 – 22 August 2004 64 36
Doubles, Women Olympic 14 – 20 August 2004 68 26
172 (86/86) 50 (39/36)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Singles, Men Yu Seung-MinKOR Wang HaoCHN Wang LiqinCHN
Doubles, Men People's Republic of China 1CHN Hong Kong, China 2HKG DenmarkDEN
Singles, Women Zhang YiningCHN Kim Hyang-MiPRK Kim Gyeong-AKOR
Doubles, Women People's Republic of China 1CHN Republic of Korea 1KOR People's Republic of China 2CHN

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 3 1 2 6
Republic of Korea KOR 1 1 1 3
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 0 1 0 1
Hong Kong, China HKG 0 1 0 1
Denmark DEN 0 0 1 1