Table tennis grew out of an English parlour game of the 1880s and 1890s played on dining tables with improvised equipment, later marketed under names including Ping-Pong. The International Table Tennis Federation, its governing body, was founded in 1926; the first World Table Tennis Championships followed in London the same year.
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Origin YearMarks the founding of the International Table Tennis Federation and the first World Championships. The informal nineteenth-century English parlour-game precursor has no single securely documented codification date in the sources checked this wave. Originating RegionEngland, where the game grew out of a Victorian parlour pastime played on dining tables in the 1880s and 1890s before its international governing body was founded in 1926. 2 International Governing BodyInternational Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded 1926, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. 2 Team or Individual Contact Level Classification
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Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.
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Either individually or in teams of two, players take alternating turns returning a light, hollow ball over the table's net onto the opposing half of the court using small rackets until they fail to do so, which then results in a point for the opponent
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Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.
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the doubles events in table tennis were replaced by team events
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Four sports, swimming, athletics, table tennis and rowing, were anticipated to hold competitions for ID athletes at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
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Aspects of the sport resemble tennis and table tennis played on a doubles badminton court, but pickleball has specific scoring rules, paddles, balls and court lines.
Wang Tao (Olympedia)
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Table Tennis
Daphne Ceeney (Wikipedia)
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She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
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Knott represented Rhodesia at table tennis before taking up lawn bowls.
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Blackburn won gold in the table tennis Women's doubles 1A-1B alongside Barbara Anderson
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James took part in athletics, swimming, lawn bowls and table tennis
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Eight of Taylor's gold medals came in table tennis
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is an Australian wheelchair tennis and para table tennis player
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The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions held by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
Xu Yinsheng (Wikipedia)
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is a male former table tennis player from China
Zhang Xielin (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese table-tennis player
Zhang Jike (Wikipedia)
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is a retired Chinese table tennis player
Xu Xin (table tennis) (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese professional table tennis player
Fan Zhendong (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese professional table tennis player
Timo Boll (Wikipedia)
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is a German former professional table tennis player
Ding Ning (Wikipedia)
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is a former Chinese table tennis player
Liu Guoliang (Wikipedia)
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is a retired Chinese table tennis player
Wang Liqin (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese table tennis player
Kong Linghui (Wikipedia)
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is a retired Chinese table tennis player
Zhang Yining (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese table tennis player who retired in 2009
Ma Lin (table tennis) (Wikipedia)
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is a retired Chinese table tennis player
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is a Soviet-born German table tennis player
Chen Meng (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese professional table tennis player and Olympic champion
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is a Belarusian former professional table tennis player
Liu Shiwen (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese table tennis player
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is a retired Croatian table tennis player
Jun Mizutani (Wikipedia)
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is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic champion
Ryu Seung-min (Wikipedia)
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is a South Korean table tennis player
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is a Polish para table tennis player
Lu Yuansheng (Wikipedia)
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Lu Yuansheng also Lu Yuan-sheng, (born 7 October 1954) is a male Chinese former international table tennis player and current coach.
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is a Japanese table tennis player
Wang Manyu (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese table tennis player and World Champion
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is a Chinese professional table tennis player and World Champion
Tomokazu Harimoto (Wikipedia)
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is a Japanese professional table tennis player
Wang Chuqin (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese professional table tennis player and World Champion
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is a Belgian former professional table tennis player
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is a Swedish former table tennis player
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is a table tennis player and former world champion from Austria
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was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player
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was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin
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is a German table tennis player.
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He also represented Queensland at table tennis.
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is a male former table tennis player from China
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is a male former Czech international table tennis player
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is a French para table tennis player
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is a retired French table tennis player
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is a female Chinese table tennis player
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is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic medalist
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is a Chinese table tennis player and the 2007 women's world champion
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is a former table tennis player from South Korea
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is a Chinese table tennis Grand Slam champion
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is a retired Japanese table tennis player
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was a Japanese table tennis player, coach, president of the ITTF
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is a British professional Paralympic table tennis player
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was a male former international table tennis player from Hungary
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A multi-discipline athlete, Anderson found particular success in class 1 swimming events in which she won three of her gold medals.
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Robert Rhys Davies (born 14 August 1984) is a British Paralympic table tennis player.
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She won a gold medal in swimming at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Israel, and a bronze for table tennis at the 1972 Games in West Germany.
Major Ritchie (Wikipedia)
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In addition, he competed in table tennis
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Paul Lyall (1944-24 December 2021) was a British para table tennis player who competed at three Paralympic Games winning a total of six medals including three gold medals.
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Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton, (née Sinclair; 14 April 1935-12 March 2023) was a British crossbench member of the House of Lords
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Dzaier Djarmilia Belgasmi Neil (born 1957) is an Algerian-born British disability rights activist and former Paralympic athlete who competed internationally in track and field and table
James Rawson (Wikipedia)
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James Rawson (7 July 1965, November 2024) was a British para table tennis player who competed at every Summer Paralympic Games between 1984 and 2008, winning five medals.
Neil Robinson (table tennis) (Wikipedia)
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Neil Robinson (born 23 July 1958) is a retired para table tennis player from the United Kingdom.
Caz Walton (Wikipedia)
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Caz Walton OBE (born Carol Bryant; 1 February 1947) is a British retired wheelchair athlete and former Great Britain Paralympic team manager.
Zhang Xiaoling (Wikipedia)
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is a Chinese retired para table tennis player
Vlasta Depetrisová (Wikipedia)
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was a Czech female international table tennis player
Ivan Andreadis (Wikipedia)
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was a Czech table tennis player
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was a British tennis and table tennis player and former world No. 1.
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