Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification


An NOC may enter up to six athletes, two male and two female athletes in singles events and up to one men's and one women's team in team events.

Qualification summary

Qualifiers

Singles

A total of 69 athletes qualified for each singles event as follows:
†: Athlete qualified for team event only.

Men

* Highest ranked South Asian athlete.

Women

* Guo Yan is replaced by Ding Ning.
** Highest ranked South Asian athlete.

Team

Sixteen teams, including one team from each of six continents and the host NOC, qualified the team events. The qualification of an NOC was based on the number of the qualified players and the ranking of the 2012 World Team Championships. The 2012 World Team Championships were held from March 25 to April 1, 2012 in Dortmund, Germany. A total of fourteen quota places per gender were reserved for completing qualified teams representing NOCs with less than three qualified individual athletes. Eight men's quotas and four women's quotas remained unused, and were transferred to the singles competition of the same gender and added to the Final Qualification Tournament.

Men's team

NOCContinentQualifiersWTC ranking
Asia31
Europe32
Asia33
Asia33
Europe35
Europe36
Asia38
Asia39
Europe311
Asia313
Europe314
Europe215
Europe216
Europe217
Europe220
Europe221
Europe222
Europe225
Latin America228
Africa230
Africa232
Oceania235
Northern America243
Africa271

Women's team

NOCContinentQualifiersWTC ranking
Asia31
Asia32
Asia33
Asia33
Asia35
Europe37
Asia39
Europe310
Europe317
Europe26
Europe28
Europe211
Europe212
Europe213
Asia214
Europe215
Europe216
Europe218
Europe219
Europe222
Northern America223
Oceania225
Latin America236
Africa239
Africa242