2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships
The 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Tokyo from 28 April to 5 May 2014.[1] The Championships was staged in Japan for the seventh time and was the 52nd edition of the team competition.
The decision was announced by ITTF in May 2011, after several sporting events including the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships were shifted from Japan due to the Tōhoku earthquake and the following Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.[2]
Seeding
The first division (Championship Division) comprised 24 teams.[3] The top eighteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2012 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the competition. The other four spots were based on the latest ITTF Computer World Team Ranking before the Championships.
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team |
|---|---|---|
| Top eighteen in 2012 | ||
| Top two of the 2nd Division in 2012 | ||
| ITTF World Team Ranking[4] |
Medal summary
Events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team |
 ChinaFan Zhendong Ma Long Wang Hao Xu Xin Zhang Jike |
 GermanyTimo Boll Patrick Franziska Steffen Mengel Dimitrij Ovtcharov |
 Chinese TaipeiChen Chien-an Chiang Hung-chieh Chuang Chih-yuan Huang Sheng-sheng Wu Chih-chi |
 JapanSeiya Kishikawa Kenta Matsudaira Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Masato Shiono | |||
| Women's team |
China Chen Meng Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia Liu Shiwen Zhu Yuling |
Japan Sayaka Hirano Yuka Ishigaki Kasumi Ishikawa Sakura Mori Saki Tashiro |
 Hong KongDoo Hoi Kem Jiang Huajun Lee Ho Ching Ng Wing Nam Tie Ya Na |
 SingaporeFeng Tianwei Li Siyun Isabelle Yee Herng Hwee Yu Mengyu |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Singapore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
Results
Men's team
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||||||
| China |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
 Greece |
1 |  Austria |
0 | |||||||||||||||
| Austria |
3 | China |
3 | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei |
3 | Chinese Taipei |
0 | |||||||||||||||
 Croatia |
1 | Chinese Taipei |
3 | |||||||||||||||
 South Korea |
2 | |||||||||||||||||
| China |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Germany |
1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Japan |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
 Poland |
1 |  Portugal |
0 | |||||||||||||||
| Portugal |
3 | Japan |
1 | |||||||||||||||
| Singapore |
3 | Germany |
3 | |||||||||||||||
 Sweden |
1 | Singapore |
0 | |||||||||||||||
| Germany |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
Women's team
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||||||
| China |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
 Ukraine |
0 |  North Korea |
0 | |||||||||||||||
| North Korea |
3 | China |
3 | |||||||||||||||
| South Korea |
2 | Singapore |
0 | |||||||||||||||
 Romania |
3 | Romania |
1 | |||||||||||||||
| Singapore |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
| China |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Japan |
0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hong Kong |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
 Belarus |
0 | Germany |
0 | |||||||||||||||
| Germany |
3 | Hong Kong |
1 | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese Taipei |
0 | Japan |
3 | |||||||||||||||
 Netherlands |
3 | Netherlands |
2 | |||||||||||||||
| Japan |
3 | |||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ "ITTF calendar". ittf.com. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ↑ Matt Cutler (May 11, 2011). "Tokyo awarded 2014 Team Table Tennis Worlds". SportBusiness.
- ↑ "ITTF Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors' Meeting" (PDF). ITTF. 2013. pp. 107–109. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
- ↑ "ITTF World Team Ranking". ittf.com.