World Table Tennis Championships 2022 will take place on Friday, September 30 to Sunday, October 9, 2022, at Chengdu, People’s Republic of China. Ahead of the tournament, let’s take a look at the most successful nations and teams in the history of the World Championship. In this 56th tournament (11th as a team competition), the host country, the People’s Republic of China, will be in a fierce battle to continue to dominate the table tennis world.
But when did the country win its first medal in the history of the World Table Tennis Championships 2022? Was there any other team that dominated the world championship? Olympics takes a look back at a brief history of the World Table Tennis Championships 2022 and the teams that have won them.
World Table Tennis Championships 2022 Dates, Schedule Overview
Event Name: World Table Tennis Championships 2022
Start Date: Friday, September 30 to Sunday, October 9, 2022
Broadcast: TV Channel
Venue: Chengdu
Location: Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
| Dates | Round |
| September 30-October 4 | Group Stages (Men’s and Women’s) |
| October 5 | 1/8 Final (Men’s and Women’s) |
| October 6 | 1/8 Final (Men’s) and Quarterfinals (Women’s) |
| October 7 | Quarterfinals (Men’s) and Semifinals (Women’s) |
| October 8 | Semifinals (Men’s) and Final (Women’s) |
| October 9 | Final (Men’s) |
Officials of The World Table Tennis Championships 2022 in Chengdu arrive in Chengdu
On the 26th, a hotel employee prepares for the World Table Tennis Championships 2022 in Chengdu. (Chengdu = distributed by Xinhua News Agency)
[Xinhua Chengdu, September 28] In Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, on the 26th, people involved in the 56th World Table Tennis Championships 2022 in Chengdu (team competition) arrived one after another and started staying at the official hotel.
At the hotel operation center for the tournament, all work groups were in full operation, and they began to move efficiently toward the event. The boarding flights of those who were planning to stay arrived as scheduled, and 462 people completed check-in by 2:00 am on the 27th. Depending on the accommodation situation, services such as hotel restaurants, security and transportation have also started. (Reporter/Lee Licheng)
World Table Tennis Championships 2022, looking back on successive winners and teams
The 2022 World Table Tennis Championships team event will be held in Chengdu, the People’s Republic of China from 30 September to 9 October. Ahead of the tournament, let’s take a look at the most successful nations and teams in the history of the World Championship.
The 2022 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships 2022 will be held in Chengdu, the People’s Republic of China from Friday 30 September to Sunday 9 October.
In this 56th tournament (11th as a team competition), the host country, the People’s Republic of China, will be in a fierce battle to continue to dominate the table tennis world.
But when did the country win its first medal in the history of the World Table Tennis Championships? Was there any other team that dominated the world championship?
History of the World Table Tennis Championships 2022
The World Table Tennis Championships 2022 were first held in 1926 in London, England, and featured men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles and men’s team competitions.
Women’s doubles was introduced at the second tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1928, and the women’s team event was added to the program at the 1934 Paris tournament in France.
Individual and team competitions were held at the same world championship until 1997, but after that, individual competitions and team competitions were separated, and in 2000 the 1st World Championships / Teams were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. battle was fought. By the way, the 2001 World Championships in Osaka was the last event where individual and team competitions were held simultaneously.
In the early days of the tournament, Hungary and other European countries were competing with each other, but when the People’s Republic of China entered the tournament in the 1950s, the balance of power changed dramatically.
World Table Tennis Championships 2022, champions of individual events
It was the Hungarian national team that dominated the world championships early in the tournament. In men’s singles, she won eight of her first nine tournaments, and won the first seven women’s singles tournaments.
The men’s singles championship that Hungary missed was ironically held in 1929 in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. England’s Fred Perry, a tennis legend, won the gold medal at the tournament.
The People’s Republic of China won their first title in 1959. Long Guotuan won the men’s singles, giving his country its first ever gold medal.
After that, he missed the 1967 and 1969 tournaments due to the influence of the Cultural Revolution, but when he returned to the world of competition, the female athletes in particular demonstrated their strength, and the athletes of other countries could not follow.
Rice field. Since the 1979 Pyongyang Games, the only women’s singles winner from outside China has been Hyun Jeong-hwa of the Republic of Korea (1993). The same is true in women’s doubles, where the country’s players have topped the podium in every tournament since 1977 except 1987. The 1987 tournament was won by Hyun Jeong-hwa and Yang Young-ja of the Republic of Korea.
The most recent competition in which the People’s Republic of China athletes failed to win an individual event was the previous World Championships. In the men’s doubles, Sweden’s Kristian Karlsson and Matthias Falk won the match against South Korean players in the final.
World Table Tennis Championships 2022, Team Champions
The People’s Republic of China has won the men’s team title for the first time in 1961, and has won it 21 times. Looking only at the tournaments since 1995, he has won 11 of the 12 tournaments. 2000 was won by the Swedish team.
On the other hand, in the women’s team, since winning the Kolkata Games in 1975, the People’s Republic of China team has won 20 of the 22 tournaments. In addition, they lost to Singapore in the final of the 2010 tournament and missed the championship.
In the history of world championship team competition, the People’s Republic of China team has won 42 times, followed by Japan with 15 times.
Team competition, the results of the past three tournaments
2014 Tokyo Games
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1st place: People’s Republic of China
2nd place: Germany
3rd place: Japan
3rd place: Chinese Taipei
girls
1st place: People’s Republic of China
2nd place: Japan
3rd place: Hong Kong China
3rd place: Singapore
Kuala Lumpur 2016
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1st place: People’s Republic of China
2nd place: Japan
3rd place: Republic of Korea
3rd place: England
girls
1st place: People’s Republic of China
2nd place: Japan
3rd place: Chinese Taipei
3rd place: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Halmstad 2018
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1st place: People’s Republic of China
2nd place: Germany
3rd place: Sweden
3rd place: Republic of Korea
girls
1st place: People’s Republic of China
2nd place: Japan
3rd place: Hong Kong China
3rd place: Joint team of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
World Table Tennis Championships 2022 team competition opens in Chengdu, China on the 30th
The combination lottery for the world table tennis team competition, which began on the 30th, was held on the 28th in Chengdu, China, the venue. There are three men’s teams aiming for the first medal in two tournaments, and two women’s teams who are expected to win the gold medal for the first time in 51 years after winning three consecutive silver medals.
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While some countries have postponed participation due to the influence of the new coronavirus, 32 men’s countries and 28 women’s countries have entered. The group stage was divided into 7 groups for men and 6 groups for women. The group league will be held from the 30th, and the top 16 countries and regions will advance to the final tournament from October 5th.
A lottery held based on the team’s world ranking. Japan has the same 3 men’s teams as Hong Kong (12th), Romania (20th), Iran (31st), and Hungary (39th). The 2nd place women were in the same two groups as Hungary (16th), Poland (19th), Slovakia (30th), and Uzbekistan (52nd).
Way to World Table Tennis Championships 2022 TV Broadcast
- DAZN
- BT Sport
- Fox TV
- HuluTV
- Amazon Prime
- ESPN
World table tennis is broadcast every time by the TV Tokyo affiliate, and it has been announced that it will be broadcast exclusively on terrestrial and BS this time as well.
It will probably include live broadcasts as well, but I think the focus will be on live broadcasts.
In addition, you may be wondering if it will be a terrestrial TV broadcast series or BS TV Tokyo.
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