Highest governing body | ITTF |
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First played | 1880s Victorian England[1][2] |
Characteristics | |
Contact | No |
Team members | Single or doubles |
Type | Racquet sport, indoor |
Equipment | Poly, 40 mm (1.57 in), 2.7 g (0.095 oz) |
Glossary | Glossary of table tennis |
Presence | |
Olympic | Since 1988 |
Paralympic | Since inaugural 1960 Summer Paralympics |
Name | Gender | Nationality | Times won | |||
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Olympics | World Championships | World Cup | ||||
Jan-Ove Waldner | Male | SWE | 1 (1992) | 2 (1989, 1997) | 1 (1990) | [62] |
Deng Yaping | Female | China | 2 (1992, 1996) | 3 (1991, 1995, 1997) | 1 (1996) | [63] |
Liu Guoliang | Male | China | 1 (1996) | 1 (1999) | 1 (1996) | [64] |
Kong Linghui | Male | China | 1 (2000) | 1 (1995) | 1 (1995) | [65] |
Wang Nan | Female | China | 1 (2000) | 3 (1999, 2001, 2003) | 4 (1997, 1998, 2003, 2007) | [66] |
Zhang Yining | Female | China | 2 (2004, 2008) | 2 (2005, 2009) | 4 (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005) | [67] |
Zhang Jike | Male | China | 1 (2012) | 2 (2011, 2013) | 2 (2011, 2014) | [68] |
Li Xiaoxia | Female | China | 1 (2012) | 1 (2013) | 1 (2008) | [69] |
Ding Ning | Female | China | 1 (2016) | 3 (2011, 2015, 2017) | 2 (2011, 2014) | [70] |
Ma Long | Male | China | 1 (2016) | 3 (2015, 2017, 2019) | 2 (2012, 2015) |
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Pong | |
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An upright cabinet of Pong on display at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County | |
Developer(s) | Atari |
Publisher(s) | Atari |
Designer(s) | Allan Alcorn |
Platform(s) |
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Release | 29 November 1972 |
Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Cabinet | Upright |
CPU | Discrete |
Sound | Monaural (mono) |
Display | Horizontal orientation, black-and-white raster display, standard resolution |
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