The men's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme and took place between August 13 and 18, at the Peking University Gymnasium. Teams consisted of three members. The sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, playing a round-robin within their pool. The top team in each pool advanced to the semifinals, with the second-place team from each group going to the bronze medal playoffs. The two semifinal winners met in the gold medal match, while the two semifinal losers each played against one of the winners from the bronze medal playoffs, with the winners of those games meeting in the bronze medal match.
Each match consisted of up to five games, with the first team to win three being declared the winner. The first two games in each match were singles, the third was doubles, and the final two were singles again. Each team member competed in two of the five games, according to a set rotation.
Qualification
Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8). Dates Start time RoundAugust 13 10:00 Group C and D 1st group round (1–3, 2–4)14:30 Group A and B 1st group round (1–3, 2–4)19:30 Group C and D 2nd group round (1–4, 2–3)August 14 10:00 Group A and B 2nd group round (1–4, 2–3)14:30 Group C and D 3rd group round (1–2, 3–4)19:30 Group A and B 3rd group round (1–2, 3–4)August 15 9:00 Bronze playoff 1st roundAugust 16 14:30 Semifinals19:30August 17 10:00 Bronze playoff 2nd roundAugust 18 14:30 Bronze medal match19:30 Gold medal match
Seeds Team ranking list was produced on the basis of the ITTF July 2008 world ranking. Only the players qualified from each team were taking into consideration to establish the ranking. Teams were drawn into four groups on August 7. Injured or sick athletes could be replaced by alternates. The alternates could only compete in the team event, the replaced athletes were not allowed to compete again at the 2008 Summer Olympics. RankGroupTeamAthletes (world ranking in July 2008)Alternate athletes1AWang Hao (1) Ma Lin (2) Wang Liqin (4)Chen Qi (7)2BTimo Boll (6) Dimitrij Ovtcharov (14) Christian Süß (40)Bastian Steger (44)3CRyu Seung-Min (8) Oh Sang-Eun (15) Yoon Jae-Young (25)Lee Jung-woo (28)4DLi Ching (11) Cheung Yuk (12) Ko Lai Chak (30)Leung Chu Yan (50)5DKan Yo (19) Jun Mizutani (22) Seiya Kishikawa (63)Kaii Yoshida (35)6CChuang Chih-yuan (10) Chiang Peng-lung (23) Chang Yen-shu (109)7BGao Ning (13) Yang Zi (34) Cai Xiaoli (170)8AWerner Schlager (16) Chen Weixing (37) Robert Gardos (47)Daniel Habesohn (150)9BZoran Primorac (32) Tan Ruiwu (43) Andrej Gaćina (118)Ronald Redjep (161)10AKalinikos Kreanga (17) Panagiotis Gionis (55) Daniel Tsiokas (120)11CJörgen Persson (33) Jens Lundqvist (58) Pär Gerell (62)Robert Svensson (105)12DAlexey Smirnov (29) Fedor Kuzmin (69) Dmitry Mazunov (84)13CThiago Monteiro (66) Gustavo Tsuboi (154) Hugo Hoyama (155)Cazuo Matsumoto (189)14DSegun Toriola (113) Monday Merotohun (249) Kazeem Nosiru (260)15BZhang Peng (125) Pradeeban Peter-Paul (277) Qiang Shen (377)16AWilliam Henzell (147) David Zalcberg (438) Kyle Davis (466)
Group round
Group A TeamPtsPldWLGWGLQualification633090Qualified for the semifinals532163Qualified for the bronze medal playoff431236330309
Group B TeamPtsPldWLGWGLQualification633091Qualified for the semifinals532164Qualified for the bronze medal playoff431256330309
Group C TeamPtsPldWLGWGLQualification633092Qualified for the semifinals532176Qualified for the bronze medal playoff431256330329
Group D TeamPtsPldWLGWGLQualification633090Qualified for the semifinals532164Qualified for the bronze medal playoff431238330339
Final stage Bracket Finals
Bronze medal playoff
Bronze playoff round 1
Semifinals
Bronze playoff round 2
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
References
External links Table Tennis Official Results Book. Official Report of the XXIX Olympiad. Digitally published by the LA84 Foundation. 2008 Olympic Games. International Table Tennis Federation. 2008 Summer Olympics / Table Tennis / Team, Men. Olympedia.org