Table tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games

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]

Table tennis at the XVII Pan American Games
Table tennis pictogram for the games
VenueAtos Markham Pan Am Centre
DatesJuly 19–25, 2015
Competitors80 from 16 nations
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2015 Pan American Games
Qualification
Singlesmenwomen
Teammenwomen

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
Main article: Venues of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games
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

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

PPreliminaries R32Round of 32 R16Round of 16 ¼Quarterfinals ½Semifinals FFinal
Event↓/Date →Sun 19Mon 20Tue 21Wed 22Thu 23Fri 24Sat 25
Men's singlesPPPR32R16¼½F
Men's teamPP¼½F
Women's singlesPPPR32R16¼½F
Women's teamPP¼½F

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Canada)

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

Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles
 Hugo Calderano
 Brazil		 Gustavo Tsuboi
 Brazil		 Thiago Monteiro
 Brazil
Eugene Wang
 Canada
Men's team
  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
 Jennifer Wu
 United States		 Gui Lin
 Brazil		 Caroline Kumahara
 Brazil
Lily Zhang
 United States
Women's team
  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

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
Main article: Table tennis at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

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

References
  1. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. "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.
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