2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships

2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Venue	Halmstad Arena
Location	Halmstad, Sweden
Dates	29 April–6 May
Competitors	595 from 87[1] nations
Champions
Men	China
Women	China
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The 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Halmstad, Sweden from 29 April to 6 May 2018.^[2]

The quarterfinal between North Korea and South Korea in the women's tournament did not take place, as the teams chose to continue as a united team^[3]

Seeding

The top fourteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2016 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the first division, along with top eight placed teams in the world rankings not already qualified.^[4][5][6]

Qualification	Men's team	Women's team
Top fourteen in 2016	China  Japan  England  South Korea  France  Hong Kong  Portugal  Sweden  Austria  Croatia  North Korea  Poland  Czech Republic  Germany	China  Japan  North Korea  Chinese Taipei  Hong Kong  Germany  Netherlands  Singapore  Austria  Romania  South Korea  Ukraine  Hungary  Thailand
Top two of the 2nd division in 2016	India  Brazil	India  Luxembourg
ITTF world team ranking	Chinese Taipei  Belgium  Russia  Egypt  Romania  Belarus  Singapore  Slovenia	Russia  Poland  Egypt  Belarus  Brazil  Czech Republic  United States  Sweden

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Sweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
2	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Korea (COR)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)*	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		2	2	4	8

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team details	China Fan Zhendong Lin Gaoyuan Ma Long Wang Chuqin Xu Xin	Germany Timo Boll Ruwen Filus Patrick Franziska Dimitrij Ovtcharov Bastian Steger	South Korea Jang Woo-jin Jung Young-sik Kim Dong-hyun Lee Sang-su Lim Jong-hoon
			Sweden Anton Källberg Kristian Karlsson Mattias Karlsson Truls Möregårdh Jon Persson
Women's team details	China Chen Meng Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Wang Manyu Zhu Yuling	Japan Hina Hayata Miu Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito Miyu Nagasaki	Hong Kong Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching Mak Tze Wing Ng Wing Nam Soo Wai Yam Minnie
			Korea Cha Hyo-sim Choe Hyon-hwa Jeon Ji-hee Kim Ji-ho Kim Nam-hae Kim Song-i Seo Hyo-won Yang Ha-eun Yoo Eun-chong

See also

• 2018 ITTF World Tour
• 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
• 2018 ITTF Team World Cup
• 2018 ITTF Men's World Cup
• 2018 ITTF Women's World Cup

References

1. "Media Guide" (PDF). ITTF. 13 Mar 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
2. "Liebherr 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships". ITTF. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
3. Hardik Vyas (3 May 2018). "Table Tennis: Koreas form unified team at world championships". Reuters. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
4. "2018 World Team Playing System" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
5. "Men's Championships Division" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
6. "Women's Championships Division" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

External links

• Official website
• ITTF website