2008 World Team Table Tennis Championships

2008 World Team Table Tennis Championships

Tournament details
Venue	Guangzhou Gymnasium
Location	Guangzhou

The 2008 Evergrande Real Estate World Team Table Tennis Championships was held in the Guangzhou Gymnasium of Guangzhou, China from February 24 to March 2, 2008. This decision was announced in May 2005. It is the 49th edition to be contested.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	Singapore	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
4	Hong Kong	0	0	2	2
	Japan	0	0	2	2
Total		2	2	4	8

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	China Wang Hao Ma Lin Wang Liqin Chen Qi Ma Long	South Korea Joo Se-Hyuk Kim Jung-Hoon Ryu Seung-Min Lee Jung-Woo Lee Jin-Kwon	Hong Kong Cheung Yuk Ko Lai Chak Leung Chu Yan Li Ching Tang Peng
			Japan Yo Kan Seiya Kishikawa Hidetoshi Oya Jun Mizutani Kaii Yoshida
Women's team	China Guo Yan Guo Yue Li Xiaoxia Wang Nan Zhang Yining	Singapore Feng Tianwei Li Jiawei Wang Yuegu Sun Beibei Yu Mengyu	Hong Kong Jiang Huajun Lau Sui-fei Lin Ling Zhang Rui Tie Ya Na
			Japan Hiroko Fujii Ai Fukuhara Sayaka Hirano Haruna Fukuoka Kasumi Ishikawa

Results

Men's team

Final

2 March 2008 19:30	Report	South Korea	0–3	China	Guangzhou Gymnasium, Guangzhou
		Score by game:
		Ryu Seung-Min	1–3	Ma Lin
Lee Jung-Woo			1–3	Wang Hao
Joo Se-Hyuk			0–3	Wang Liqin

Place 1–12 bracket

First Round				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
				China	3
Czech Republic	3			Czech Republic	0
Singapore	2							China	3
Romania	3							Hong Kong	0
Russia	1			Romania	1
				Hong Kong	3
												China	3
												South Korea	0
				Japan	3
Denmark	1			Chinese Taipei	0
Chinese Taipei	3							Japan	1
Germany	3							South Korea	3			Third Place
Austria	2			Germany	1							Hong Kong	X
				South Korea	3							Japan	X
Position 9–12								Position 5–8
Singapore	3			Singapore	1			Czech Republic	3			Czech Republic	3
Russia	1			Austria	3			Romania	0			Chinese Taipei	0
Denmark	2			Russia	0			Chinese Taipei	3			Romania	2
Austria	3			Denmark	3			Germany	1			Germany	3

Women's team

Final

1 March 2008 19:30	Report	Singapore	1–3	China	Guangzhou Gymnasium, Guangzhou
		Score by game:
		Li Jiawei	3–0	Guo Yue
Feng Tianwei			1–3	Zhang Yining
Wang Yuegu			0–3	Wang Nan
Li Jiawei			1–3	Zhang Yining

Place 1–12 bracket

First Round				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
				China	3
Romania	3			Romania	0
Germany	2							China	3
United States	2							Hong Kong	0
Austria	3			Austria	2
				Hong Kong	3
												China	3
												Singapore	1
				Japan	3
Croatia	2			Hungary	0
Hungary	3							Japan	0
South Korea	2							Singapore	3			Third Place
Netherlands	3			Netherlands	0							Hong Kong	X
				Singapore	3							Japan	X
Position 9–12								Position 5–8
Germany	3			Germany	3			Romania	1			Austria	0
United States	0			Croatia	1			Austria	3			Hungary	3
Croatia	3			United States	0			Hungary	3			Romania	2
South Korea	0			South Korea	3			Netherlands	1			Netherlands	3

References

• ITTF website
• ITTF Database