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Table tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games

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Table tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games
Table tennis pictogram for the games
VenueAtos Markham Pan Am Centre
DatesJuly 19–25
No. of events4 (2 men, 2 women)
Competitors80 from 16 nations
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Table tennis competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held from July 19 to 25 at the Markham Pan Am Centre (Atos Markham Pan Am Centre) in Markham.[1] Due to naming rights, the arena was known as the latter for the duration of the games.[2] A total of four table tennis events were held: two each for men and women.[3]

The winners of each the individual events, provided they are not already qualified, qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4]

Venue

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The Markham Pan Am Centre (Atos Markham Pan Am Centre), in Markham, was the venue for the table tennis competitions

The competitions took place at the Atos Markham Pan Am Centre (Markham Pan Am Centre) located in the city of Markham, about 31 kilometers from the athletes village. The arena had capacity of 2,000 people per session (1,000 permanent seating + 1,000 temporary seats).[2] The venue also hosted badminton competitions earlier during the games. The venue also hosted the water polo competitions, but in the other side of the centre (an Olympic sized pool).[5]

Competition schedule

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The following is the competition schedule for the table tennis competitions:[6]

P Preliminaries R32 Round of 32 R16 Round of 16 ¼ Quarterfinals ½ Semifinals F Final
Event↓/Date → Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri 24 Sat 25
Men's singles P P P R32 R16 ¼ ½ F
Men's team P P ¼ ½ F
Women's singles P P P R32 R16 ¼ ½ F
Women's team P P ¼ ½ F

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Canada)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Brazil2327
2 United States2013
3 Paraguay0101
4 Canada*0033
5 Puerto Rico0022
Totals (5 entries)44816

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
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Hugo Calderano
 Brazil
Gustavo Tsuboi
 Brazil
Thiago Monteiro
 Brazil
Eugene Wang
 Canada
Men's team
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 Brazil
Hugo Calderano
Thiago Monteiro
Gustavo Tsuboi
 Paraguay
Marcelo Aguirre
Axel Gavilan
Alejandro Toranzos
 Canada
Marko Medjugorac
Pierre-Luc Thériault
Eugene Wang
 Puerto Rico
Brian Afanador
Héctor Berríos
Daniel González
Women's singles
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Jennifer Wu
 United States
Gui Lin
 Brazil
Caroline Kumahara
 Brazil
Lily Zhang
 United States
Women's team
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 United States
Lily Zhang
Jennifer Wu
Jiaqi Zheng
 Brazil
Gui Lin
Caroline Kumahara
Lígia Silva
 Canada
Alicia Cote
Anqi Luo
Zhang Mo
 Puerto Rico
Carelyn Cordero
Adriana Diaz
Melanie Diaz

Participating nations

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A total of 16 countries qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

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A total of 80 athletes (40 men and 40 women) qualified to compete at the games. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per gender. As host nation, Canada automatically qualified a full team of six athletes. All other athletes qualified at the qualification tournament in March 2015.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Markham Pan Am Centre". toronto2015.org. TO2015. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Table tennis". toronto2015.org. TO2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Rio 2016 Table tennis" (PDF). corporate.olympics.com.au. International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  5. ^ Persico, Amanda (24 July 2014). "Pan Am building gets finishing touches in Markham". www.yorkregion.com/. Metroland Media Group. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Qualification System – Table tennis". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.