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Olympic table tennis by numbers

Xinhua, August 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Following are the statistics by the numbers for table tennis, which starts Saturday at Riocentro:

2012 - China won all four available gold medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. It also won all four gold medals in 1996, 2000 and 2008.

1988 - Table tennis made its debut at Seoul 1988 and has been present ever since.

24 - China has won 24 out of a possible 28 gold medals in table tennis. South Korea (3) and Sweden (1) have claimed the other four.

19 - Deng Yaping of China is the youngest gold medalist in a singles event. She won women's singles at Barcelona 1992 at the age of 19 years and 182 days.

7 - Jorgen Persson (Sweden), Jean-Michel Saive (Belgium) and Zoran Primorac (Croatia) competed at all seven Olympic table tennis tournaments between 1988 and 2012.

4 - Three players have won a record four gold medals in table tennis: Deng, Wang Nan (China), and Zhang Yining (China).

3 - Wang Hao (China) lost the men's singles final at the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games. He has now retired from international competition.

2 - Chen Jing (Chinese Taipei, silver at Atlanta 1996) and Kim Hyang Mi (DPR Korea, silver at Athens 2004) are the only two non-Chinese athletes to have reached the women's singles final.

1 - The number of gold medals won by non-Asian NOCs in table tennis. Jan-Ove Waldner (Sweden) won men's singles in 1992.

0 - No athlete has managed to win the men's singles more than once.

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