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Singles, Men

Date	14 – 23 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiako Gymnastirio Galatsiou, Galatsi
Participants	64 from 39 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament. Top 16 seeds advanced to round three. Seeds 17-32 advanced to round two.

The top seed was China’s Wang Liqin, who was the 2001 World Champion, and would win again in 2005 and 2007. But in the semis in Athina, he went out to his countryman, Wang Hao. In the final Wang Hao met Korean Ryu Seung-Min, who was seeded third. Wang was favored as he had defeated Ryu six of the seven times they had met, but Wang lost after he failed to convert a match ball in the fifth game. The final went to six games, with Ryu prevailing, the first non-Chinese to win a table tennis gold medal since 1992, and the first in men’s singles since the inaugural Olympic event in 1988, also won by a Korean, Yoo Nam-Kyu. The surprise of the tournament was the 38-year-old Swede, Jan-Ove Waldner. Little was expected of the 1992 gold medalist, but he eliminated the second seed, Ma Lin, and reached the semis, placing fourth.

Pos	Competitor	NOC
1	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	Gold
2	Wang Hao	CHN	Silver
3	Wang Liqin	CHN	Bronze
4	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE
=5	Ko Lai Chak	HKG
=5	Chuang Chih-Yuan	TPE
=5	Leung Chu Yan	HKG
=5	Timo Boll	GER
=9	Ju Se-Hyeok	KOR
=9	Jörgen Persson	SWE
=9	Oh Sang-Eun	KOR
=9	Luis Lin	DOM
=9	Chiang Peng-Lung	TPE
=9	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR
=9	Werner Schlager	AUT
=9	Ma Lin	CHN
=17	Trinko Keen	NED
=17	Song Liu	ARG
=17	Petr Korbel	CZE
=17	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE
=17	Peter Karlsson	SWE
=17	Chen Weixing	AUT
=17	Jean-Michel Saive	BEL
=17	Jörg Roßkopf	GER
=17	Koji Matsushita	JPN
=17	Adrian Crișan	ROU
=17	Michael Maze	DEN
=17	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL
=17	Li Ching	HKG
=17	Patrick Chila	FRA
=17	Aleksandar Karakašević	SCG
=17	Zoran Primorac	CRO
=33	Torben Wosik	GER
=33	Slobodan Grujić	SCG
=33	Sharath Kamal Achanta	IND
=33	Monday Merotohun	NGR
=33	Min Yang	ITA
=33	William Henzell	AUS
=33	Aleksey Smirnov	RUS
=33	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL
=33	Danny Heister	NED
=33	Ilija Lupulesku	USA
=33	O Il	PRK
=33	Zhiwen He	ESP
=33	Thiago Monteiro	BRA
=33	Segun Toriola	NGR
=33	Johnny Huang	CAN
=33	Srđan Miličević	BIH
=49	Mohamed Guèye	SEN
=49	Shu Arai	JPN
=49	Mohamed Boudjadja	ALG
=49	Momo Babungu	COD
=49	Đoàn Kiến Quốc	VIE
=49	Khoa Dinh Nguyen	USA
=49	Ryo Yuzawa	JPN
=49	Hugo Hoyama	BRA
=49	Trevor Brown	AUS
=49	Juan Papic	CHI
=49	José Luyindula	COD
=49	Panagiotis Gkionis	GRE
=49	Mohamed Reza Akhlagh Pasand	IRI
=49	Pablo Tabachnik	ARG
=49	Khalid Al-Harbi	KSA
=49	Russ Lavale	AUS

Round One

Date	14 August 2004 — 14:00-15:30, 20:00-22:00
Format	Winners advanced to round two.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 11:45-12:30	Torben Wosik	GER	4 – 0	Mohamed Guèye	SEN
Match #2	14 Aug 11:45-12:30	Song Liu	ARG	4 – 1	Shu Arai	JPN
Match #3	14 Aug 11:45-12:30	Sharath Kamal Achanta	IND	4 – 1	Mohamed Boudjadja	ALG
Match #4	14 Aug 11:45-12:30	Monday Merotohun	NGR	4 – 0	Momo Babungu	COD
Match #5	14 Aug 12:45-13:30	Min Yang	ITA	4 – 1	Đoàn Kiến Quốc	VIE
Match #6	14 Aug 12:45-13:30	William Henzell	AUS	4 – 1	Khoa Dinh Nguyen	USA
Match #7	14 Aug 12:45-13:30	Luis Lin	DOM	4 – 1	Ryo Yuzawa	JPN
Match #8	14 Aug 12:45-13:30	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL	4 – 0	Hugo Hoyama	BRA
Match #9	14 Aug 20:00-21:00	Koji Matsushita	JPN	4 – 0	Trevor Brown	AUS
Match #10	14 Aug 20:00-21:00	Ilija Lupulesku	USA	4 – 0	Juan Papic	CHI
Match #11	14 Aug 20:00-21:00	O Il	PRK	4 – 0	José Luyindula	COD
Match #12	14 Aug 20:00-21:00	Zhiwen He	ESP	4 – 1	Panagiotis Gkionis	GRE
Match #13	14 Aug 21:00-21:45	Thiago Monteiro	BRA	4 – 1	Mohamed Reza Akhlagh Pasand	IRI
Match #14	14 Aug 21:00-21:45	Segun Toriola	NGR	4 – 1	Pablo Tabachnik	ARG
Match #15	14 Aug 21:00-21:45	Aleksandar Karakašević	SCG	4 – 0	Khalid Al-Harbi	KSA
Match #16	14 Aug 21:00-21:45	Srđan Miličević	BIH	4 – 2	Russ Lavale	AUS

Round Two

Date	15 – 16 August 2004 — 18:00-20:00
Format	Winners advanced to round three.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 18:00-19:00	Trinko Keen	NED	4 – 3	Torben Wosik	GER
Match #2	15 Aug 18:00-19:00	Song Liu	ARG	4 – 1	Slobodan Grujić	SCG
Match #3	15 Aug 18:00-19:00	Ko Lai Chak	HKG	4 – 0	Sharath Kamal Achanta	IND
Match #4	15 Aug 18:00-18:45	Jörgen Persson	SWE	4 – 1	Monday Merotohun	NGR
Match #5	15 Aug 19:00-20:00	Peter Karlsson	SWE	4 – 3	Min Yang	ITA
Match #6	15 Aug 19:00-20:00	Chen Weixing	AUT	4 – 0	William Henzell	AUS
Match #7	15 Aug 19:00-20:00	Luis Lin	DOM	4 – 1	Aleksey Smirnov	RUS
Match #8	15 Aug 19:00-20:00	Jörg Roßkopf	GER	4 – 1	Tomasz Krzeszewski	POL
Match #9	16 Aug 18:00-19:00	Koji Matsushita	JPN	4 – 0	Danny Heister	NED
Match #10	16 Aug 18:00-19:00	Adrian Crișan	ROU	4 – 0	Ilija Lupulesku	USA
Match #11	16 Aug 18:00-19:00	Leung Chu Yan	HKG	4 – 1	O Il	PRK
Match #12	16 Aug 18:00-18:45	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL	4 – 3	Zhiwen He	ESP
Match #13	16 Aug 19:00-20:00	Li Ching	HKG	4 – 1	Thiago Monteiro	BRA
Match #14	16 Aug 19:00-20:00	Patrick Chila	FRA	4 – 2	Segun Toriola	NGR
Match #15	16 Aug 19:00-20:00	Aleksandar Karakašević	SCG	4 – 2	Johnny Huang	CAN
Match #16	16 Aug 19:00-19:45	Zoran Primorac	CRO	4 – 1	Srđan Miličević	BIH

Round Three

Date	17 August 2004 — 11:00-13:00, 18:00-20:00
Format	Winners advanced to round four.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	17 Aug 11:00-12:00	Wang Liqin	CHN	4 – 1	Trinko Keen	NED
Match #2	17 Aug 11:00-12:00	Ju Se-Hyeok	KOR	4 – 0	Song Liu	ARG
Match #3	17 Aug 11:00-12:00	Ko Lai Chak	HKG	4 – 3	Petr Korbel	CZE
Match #4	17 Aug 11:00-12:00	Jörgen Persson	SWE	4 – 0	Kallinikos Kreangka	GRE
Match #5	17 Aug 12:00-12:45	Chuang Chih-Yuan	TPE	4 – 2	Peter Karlsson	SWE
Match #6	17 Aug 12:00-13:00	Oh Sang-Eun	KOR	4 – 3	Chen Weixing	AUT
Match #7	17 Aug 12:00-13:00	Luis Lin	DOM	4 – 2	Jean-Michel Saive	BEL
Match #8	17 Aug 12:00-13:00	Wang Hao	CHN	4 – 1	Jörg Roßkopf	GER
Match #9	17 Aug 18:00-19:00	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	4 – 0	Koji Matsushita	JPN
Match #10	17 Aug 18:00-19:00	Chiang Peng-Lung	TPE	4 – 1	Adrian Crișan	ROU
Match #11	17 Aug 18:00-19:00	Leung Chu Yan	HKG	4 – 1	Michael Maze	DEN
Match #12	17 Aug 18:00-18:45	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR	4 – 2	Lucjan Błaszczyk	POL
Match #13	17 Aug 19:00-20:00	Werner Schlager	AUT	4 – 2	Li Ching	HKG
Match #14	17 Aug 19:00-20:00	Timo Boll	GER	4 – 1	Patrick Chila	FRA
Match #15	17 Aug 19:00-20:00	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	4 – 2	Aleksandar Karakašević	SCG
Match #16	17 Aug 19:00-20:00	Ma Lin	CHN	4 – 1	Zoran Primorac	CRO

Round Four

Date	18 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	18 Aug 20:00-21:00	Wang Liqin	CHN	4 – 1	Ju Se-Hyeok	KOR
Match #2	18 Aug 20:00-21:00	Ko Lai Chak	HKG	4 – 1	Jörgen Persson	SWE
Match #3	18 Aug 20:00-21:00	Chuang Chih-Yuan	TPE	4 – 2	Oh Sang-Eun	KOR
Match #4	18 Aug 20:00-20:45	Wang Hao	CHN	4 – 1	Luis Lin	DOM
Match #5	18 Aug 21:00-21:45	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	4 – 3	Chiang Peng-Lung	TPE
Match #6	18 Aug 21:00-22:00	Leung Chu Yan	HKG	4 – 3	Uladzimir Samsonau	BLR
Match #7	18 Aug 21:00-22:00	Timo Boll	GER	4 – 3	Werner Schlager	AUT
Match #8	18 Aug 21:00-22:00	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	4 – 1	Ma Lin	CHN

Quarter-Finals

Date	20 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	20 Aug 18:00-18:45	Wang Liqin	CHN	4 – 1	Ko Lai Chak	HKG
Match #2	20 Aug 19:00-19:45	Wang Hao	CHN	4 – 2	Chuang Chih-Yuan	TPE
Match #3	20 Aug 20:00-20:45	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	4 – 2	Leung Chu Yan	HKG
Match #4	20 Aug 21:00-21:45	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE	4 – 1	Timo Boll	GER

Semi-Finals

Date	22 August 2004
Format	Winners advanced to the final match. Runners-up advanced to bronze medal match.

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	22 Aug 11:00-11:45	Wang Hao	CHN	4 – 1	Wang Liqin	CHN
Match #2	22 Aug 12:00-12:45	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	4 – 1	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE

Final Round

Date	23 August 2004

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	23 Aug 14:00-14:45	Yu Seung-Min	KOR	4 – 2	Wang Hao	CHN
Match 3/4	23 Aug 13:00-13:45	Wang Liqin	CHN	4 – 1	Jan-Ove Waldner	SWE