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Portugal national table tennis team. The team is composed by Marcos Freitas, Tiago Apolónia and João Pedro Monteiro .Portugal reached the quarter-finals at 2012 Olympic Games in London, beating in the first round Great Britain and losing the quarter-finals against South Korea 2-3.
History Parker Brothers Ping-Pong game The sport originated in Victorian England, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game. It has been suggested that makeshift versions of the game were developed by British military officers in India around the 1860s or 1870s, who brought it back with them. A row of books stood up along the center of the table as a net, two ...
ITTF. The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently ...
The 1926 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the first edition of the men's team championship. [1] [2] The cup was named the Swaythling Cup because it was named after the Dowager Lady Swaythling (the mother of Ivor Montagu) who presented the trophy to the English Table Tennis Association in 1926. [3]
Table tennis at the 2009 Lusofonia Games. The Table Tennis tournament of the 2009 Lusophony Games was played in Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisbon, Portugal. The tournament was played from 12 to 13 July 2009, and there was both the men's and women's competition with singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.
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The 2005 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles was the 48th edition of the men's doubles championship. [1] Wang Hao and Kong Linghui won the title after defeating Timo Boll and Christian Süß in the final by four sets to one. [2]
The 1954 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (women's team) was the 14th edition of the women's team championship. [1] [2] Japan won the gold medal, Hungary won the silver medal and England won the bronze medal following a three way tie in the final group play off, positions of which were eventually decided by matches won. [3] [4 ...