2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships

2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Date	28 February–6 March
Edition	53rd
Location	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 28 February to 6 March 2016.^[1]

Seeding

The top sixteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2014 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the first division, along with the top six placed teams in the world rankings not already qualified.^[2]

Qualification	Men's team	Women's team
Top sixteen in 2014	China  Germany  Chinese Taipei  Japan  Austria  South Korea  Portugal  Singapore  Greece  Croatia  Poland  Sweden  France  Russia  Ukraine  North Korea	China  Japan  Singapore  Hong Kong  North Korea  Romania  Germany  Netherlands  Ukraine  South Korea  Belarus  Chinese Taipei  Hungary  Poland  Czech Republic  Austria
Top two of the 2nd Division in 2014	England  Italy	Brazil  Sweden
ITTF World Team Ranking[3]	Hong Kong  Belarus  Denmark  Czech Republic  Romania  Malaysia	Russia  Spain  Thailand  France  United States  Malaysia

Schedule

Five individual events were contested. Qualification rounds were held from 26–27 April.^[4]

	Rounds in Main Draw
	Finals

Date	28 February	29 February	1 March	2 March	3 March	4 March	5 March	6 March
Men's team	GS	GS	GS	GS	1/8 final	QF	SF	F
Women's team	GS	GS	GS	GS	1/8 final, QF	QF, SF	SF	F

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	0	0	2
2	Japan	0	2	0	2
3	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	4	8

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	China Fan Zhendong Fang Bo Ma Long Xu Xin Zhang Jike	Japan Kenta Matsudaira Jun Mizutani Koki Niwa Yuya Oshima Maharu Yoshimura	South Korea Jang Woo-jin Jeong Sang-eun Joo Sae-hyuk Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su
			England Alan Cooke Paul Drinkhall Liam Pitchford Sam Walker
Women's team	China Chen Meng Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia Liu Shiwen Zhu Yuling	Japan Ai Fukuhara Yui Hamamoto Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito Misako Wakamiya	North Korea Cha Hyo-sim Kim Song-i Ri Mi-gyong Ri Myong-sun
			Chinese Taipei Chen Szu-yu Cheng Hsien-tzu Cheng I-ching Lin Chia-hui Liu Hsing-yin

Results

Men's team

	Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
					China	3
					Sweden	0
	Croatia	0
	Sweden	3
									China	3
									South Korea	0
	North Korea	0
	Portugal	3
					Portugal	1
					South Korea	3
													China	3
													Japan	0
					Japan	3
					Hong Kong	1
	Austria	1
	Hong Kong	3
									Japan	3
									England	1
	Poland	2
	England	3
					England	3
					France	2

Women's team

	Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
					China	3
					Netherlands	0
	Austria	2
	Netherlands	3
									China	3
									Chinese Taipei	0
	Chinese Taipei	3
	Ukraine	2
					Chinese Taipei	3
					Hong Kong	2
													China	3
													Japan	0
					Singapore	2
					North Korea	3
	Romania	0
	North Korea	3
									North Korea	1
									Japan	3
	South Korea	0
	Germany	3
					Germany	0
					Japan	3

References

1. "Sharara Re-elected as ITTF President". ittf.com. International Table Tennis Federation. 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
2. "2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships Playing System" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
3. "ITTF World Team Ranking" (PDF). ittf.com.
4. Schedule

External links

• Official website
• ITTF website