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Table tennis has been added to the program of the 2023 European Games in Krakow and Malopolska, which means that the sport will maintain its record of appearances in each edition of the event.
It brings the total number of sports played by games to date to 18.
The popularity of Polish table tennis was one of the reasons for its inclusion in the 2023 European Games and is expected to be among the best participating sports when the event takes place between 21 June and 1 July.
The event has added value as there are seats available at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
We are very pleased that table tennis has once again been included in the prestigious European Games, said Igor Levitin, President of the European Table Tennis Association (ETTU).
We look forward to competing with our best athletes in Poland and will continue to work with the EOC to further develop European table tennis.
The newly elected President of the EOC, Spyros Capralos, welcomed a new strong Olympic sport back to the European Games.
This is the first sport I can announce since becoming president of the EOC, which is a great honor for me, he said.
In the chair of the coordination committee for the first two editions of the games, I can say that table tennis has proved to be not only a very popular sport in Europe but also in the rest of the world.
It is important that the management of ETTU shares our vision for the future of games.
By offering Olympic qualifying venues, ETTU provides the best athletes in Europe with the perfect platform to compete in a leading multi-sport event as a springboard to Paris 2024. “
Hasan Arat, Chair of the EOC’s European Games Coordinating Committee, welcomed the agreement formally concluded with ETTU.
Table tennis was already included in the list of preliminary sports announced at the end of 2020, and we are very pleased that we have now reached an agreement with ETTU and formally accepted them as part of the 2023 program. edition, he said.
Germany won two of the four gold medals offered at the first Baku Games in 2015 when Dimitrij Ovtcharov won the men’s singles and the women’s team competition.
The women’s doubles were won by Dutchman Li Jiao with Portugal taking gold in the men’s team competition.
In Minsk in 2019, the mix was added as a medal event.
Patrick Franziska and Petrissa Solja took the gold medal when Germany won four of the five gold medals.
Timo Boll won the men’s singles and they also demanded both teams.
Only Portuguese Fu Yu prevented a clean sweep when he defeated Germanys Han Ying to win the women’s singles.
Table tennis involves 33 basketball, archery, badminton, beach handball, boxing, canoe, cycling, karate, modern pentathlon, muaythai, padel, shooting, ski jumping, sport climbing, taekwondo, teqball and triathlon in 2023 European programs. .
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