The lists of the qualifiers for the simple table tennis of the Olympic Games are also closed – The Europeans who pass

The current week’s table tennis world rankings published on Tuesday reveal new singles qualifiers and determine the distribution of Olympic spots in the same event. The round of 16 for the Olympic tournaments in the team and mixed doubles events had long been established and the final singles quotas remained after the pre-Olympic tournaments of all continents.

In total, 86 men and the same number of women can be in Paris, up to 70 entries in the singles and after the final ranking details remain to finalize the entire line-up.

We will focus on the qualifications of European athletes through the world rank and, of course, we remind you that in the Olympic Games with the historic tenth presence of table tennis, Greece will once again be “present” in the top event with Panagiotis Gionis.

The world-class defender, already in Poland and at Bogoria’s disposal for next Saturday’s Polish League final in Warsaw, secured his sixth consecutive Olympic participation a month ago by getting the coveted “ticket” to the European pre-Olympic Sarajevo tournament.

The games of the sport in the beautiful French capital will take place from 27/7 to 10/8. They include five events: The team and the single for male and female athletes, as well as the mixed doubles. The announcement of the pre-Olympic event in Bosnia/Herzegovina noted that in addition to the five qualifiers from the specific tournament (equal numbers for men and women) one more place for Europe through the world ranking would be awarded on 6/18. This position was taken by Spain’s Alvaro Robles in the men’s category and Yang Xiaoxin from Monaco in the women’s category.

Generally now, many available positions from the last evaluation board are also covered by Europeans. Thus, in the updated table of Qualified Athletes for Paris 2024, as published on Wednesday by the ITTF, we see with the relevant indication in men the Englishman Liam Pitchford, the Romanian Ovidiu Ionescu, the Austrian Daniel Habeson, the Romanian Eduardo Ionescu, the Belgian Martin Allegro, Luxembourg’s Luka Mladenovic, Belgium’s Cedric Nutink.

In the women, we see Austria’s Sofia Polkanova, Luxembourg’s Nie Xia Lian, Italy’s Giorgia Picolin, Spain’s Maria Xiao, Hungary’s Georgina Pota, Croatia’s Ivana Malobabic, Czech Republic’s Hana Matelova, Serbia’s Isabella Lupulescu, Italy’s Deborah Vivarelli, the Luxembourgian Sarah De Nute, the Turkish Sibel Altinkaya and the Ukrainian Solomiya Brateiko.

Up to 15 places are given for singles from the world ranking.

It remains for sure that both Universality places will be given by the competent committee, as, of course, the confirmation of the participations from all the National Olympic Committees (NOC).