The World Table Tennis Championships first took place in 1926 in London, England. However, since the year 2000, the Championship has been split into two separate competitions.
Team events are now held in even numbered years, whilst individual events (singles and doubles) are held in odd numbered years.
So 2024 is the year for the team events to be contested, and Busan, South Korea stage the event from 16-25 February 2024.
Team Event Cups
by courtesy of the ITTF
The World Table Tennis Championships 2024 events are…
The Swaythling Cup was donated in 1926 by Lady Baroness Swaythling, mother of
Ivor Montagu, whilst the Corbillon Cup was donated in 1933 by Marcel Corbillon, President of the French TTA, for the first Women’s Team event at the 1934 World Championships.
However, the original Corbillon Cup disappeared just after World War Two, so the German Table Tennis Federation paid for an exact replica in 1949 (the German Women’s team won the Cup in the 1939 World Championships – the last time it was played before the outbreak of World War Two).
The following equipment is being used at the 2024 World Team Championships…
- Tables, Net and Post – DHS
- Balls – Butterfly R40+ 3 star (white)
- Flooring – Enlio
DHS table
The 2024 World Team Championships are being played as a single Division of 40 teams, with 8 groups of 5 teams each.
Each group of 5 teams will play a complete round robin competition (4 matches per team).
The order of play and the scheduling of the matches will try to avoid, whenever possible, the possibility of “predetermining” results so that all final round matches are significant for each competing team.
Following the completion of the round robin in each group, a single knockout will be played with the top 3 teams in each group progressing to the knockout phase (24 teams).
The winners of each group (8 teams) will be drawn into seeded positions for the round of 24 and each team will receive a bye.
The teams finishing 2nd in each group will be drawn into the opposite half of the respective group winners, and face a 3rd placed team in the round of 16 – with the restriction that teams having played against each other in the group stage, will not meet again in the first round of the knock-out competition.
The winning team will receive gold medals, the runner-up silver medals, and the two losing semi-finalists, bronze medals.
Seeding
Seeding was based on the World Team Ranking published for January 2024. (The World Team Ranking for each national association is based on the three highest ranked players in that association named on the current Men’s and Women’s World Rankings).
Seeding List Men’s Teams
Seeding List Women’s Teams
1. China
1. China
2. Germany
2. Japan
3. South Korea
3. Germany
4. France
4. Chinese Taipei
5. Japan
5. South Korea
6. Sweden
6. Hong Kong China
7. Brazil
7. Romania
8. Portugal
8. France
9. Chinese Taipei
9. Puerto Rico
10. Egypt
10. Singapore
11. Hong Kong China
11. Egypt
12. Slovenia
12. Portugal
13. Croatia
13. Slovakia
14. Australia
14. Brazil
15. England
15. USA
16. India
16. Hungary
17. Belgium
17. India
18. Poland
18. Luxembourg
19. Denmark
19. Thailand
20. USA
20. Poland
21. Nigeria
21. Austria
22. Romania
22. Czechia
23. Singapore
23. Sweden
24. Slovakia
24. Italy
25. Iran
25. Australia
26. Puerto Rico
26. Canada
27. Czechia
27. Malaysia
28. Canada
28. Ukraine
29. Kazakhstan
29. South Africa
30. Hungary
30. Spain
31. Austria
31. Nigeria
32. Chile
32. Chile
33. Saudi Arabia
33. Mexico
34. New Zealand
34. Iran
35. Algeria
35. Uzbekistan
36. Cuba
36. Algeria
37. Serbia
37. Croatia
38. Thailand
38. Cuba
39. Madagascar
39. Serbia
40. Malaysia
40. Kazakhstan
MEN
China, Germany, South Korea, France, Japan, Sweden, Brazil, Portugal, Croatia, England, India, Australia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, Slovenia, Egypt, Belgium, USA, Poland, Denmark, Nigeria, Slovak Republic, Singapore, Romania, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Chile, Austria, Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Canada, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Algeria, Madagasca, Serbia, Malaysia, Thailand.
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WOMEN
China, Japan, Germany, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Hong Kong China, Romania, France, Hungary, Brazil, Slovak Republic, USA, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Singapore, Egypt, India, Luxembourg, Poland, Thailand, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Spain, South Africa, Nigeria, Chile, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Iran, Mexico, Algeria, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Croatia.
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