2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships
2022 edition of the World Team Table Tennis Championships
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The 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 30 September to 9 October 2022.[1][2] The World Team Championships were originally scheduled in April and pushed back to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
Format
The teams were drawn in groups of five teams in principle.[4][5] After a round robin in each group, the top two teams in groups and the highest-ranked (world team ranking) third-placed teams qualified for a 16-team knockout stage. Two losing semi-finalists received bronze medals in the absence of a third-place match.
Team match system
A team consisted of three members playing best of five singles. Each singles match was a best of five games. The order of play was:
- A vs X
- B vs Y
- C vs Z
- A vs Y
- B vs X
Tie-breaking criteria for group play
A finished team match brought two points for a win, one point for a loss. No points were given for a loss in an unplayed or unfinished match. The ranking of teams in the group stage were determined as follows:[6]
- Points obtained in all group matches;
- Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Ratios of wins to losses in the singles matches played between the teams in question;
- Ratios of wins to losses in the games played between the teams in question;
- Ratios of wins to losses in the points played between the teams in question;
- Drawing of lots.
Qualification
Qualified teams were announced in June 2022.[7] Number of teams eligible to compete for the trophy in each team event is expanded to 40, compared to the previous 24 teams in 2018.[8] However, only 32 men's teams and 28 women's teams arrived in Chengdu with differences from the original list.[9]
Schedule
The draw took place on 28 September.[12] Group phase commences on 30 September and knockout stage starts on 5 October, with the women's and men's finals taking place on 8 and 9 October respectively.[13][14]
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 30 | Sat 1 | Sun 2 | Mon 3 | Tue 4 | Wed 5 | Thu 6 | Fri 7 | Sat 8 | Sun 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team | Group | 1/8 F | QF | SF | F | |||||
| Women's team | Group | 1/8 F | QF | SF | F | |||||
Medal summary
Medal table
* Host nation (China)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  China* | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 |  Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4 |  Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team |
China Fan Zhendong Ma Long Liang Jingkun Wang Chuqin Lin Gaoyuan |
Germany Dang Qiu Benedikt Duda Ricardo Walther Fanbo Meng Kay Stumper |
Japan Tomokazu Harimoto Shunsuke Togami Mizuki Oikawa Jo Yokotani |
| South Korea Jang Woo-jin An Jae-hyun Cho Seung-min Cho Dae-seong Hwang Min-ha | |||
| Women's team |
China Sun Yingsha Chen Meng Wang Manyu Wang Yidi Chen Xingtong |
Japan Hina Hayata Mima Ito Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki Hitomi Sato |
Chinese Taipei Chen Szu-yu Cheng I-ching Liu Hsing-yin Li Yu-jhun Huang Yi-hua |
| Germany Han Ying Nina Mittelham Shan Xiaona Sabine Winter Annett Kaufmann |