Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

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This article details the qualifying phase for Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 276 athletes coming from their respective NPCs. 31 (20 male, 11 female) will be selected by the Bipartite Commission. A further 55 male and 50 female quota places were reserved for continental competition.

The remaining 99 male and 41 female players earn places for the Games through the world ranking list prepared by ITTF that concluded on December 31, 2015.

Men[edit]

The following achieved the necessary ranking by the final date, and have been invited to the Rio 2016 Games.

Class 1

Section Places NOC Qualified player
African Qualifier 1 -
Asian Qualifier 1 -
American Qualifier 1  Brazil Aloisio Lima
European Qualifier 1  Great Britain Robert Davies
Oceania Qualifier 1 -
ITTF World Ranking List
(as of December 21, 2015)
6(+3)*  Great Britain Paul Davies
 France Jean-François Ducay
 South Korea Kiwon Nam
 Germany Holger Nikelis
 South Korea Young Dae Joo
 South Korea Lee Chang-ho
 Italy Andrea Borgato
 Argentina Fernando Emanuel Eberhardt
 Hungary Endre Major
Bipartite Commission 1  Hungary Silvio Keller
Total 12
  • 3 untaken regional places transferred to the ranking list.

Class 2

Section Places NOC Qualified player
African Qualifier 1 -
Asian Qualifier 1  South Korea Soo Yong Cha
American Qualifier 1  Brazil Iranildo Conceicao Espindola
European Qualifier 1  France Fabien Lamirault
Oceania Qualifier 1 -
ITTF World Ranking List
(as of December 21, 2015)
8(+2)*  Poland Rafal Czuper
 Slovakia Jan Riapos
 France Stephane Molliens
 Ukraine Oleksandr Yezyk
 Czech Republic Jiri Suchanek
 Slovakia Martin Ludrovsky
 South Korea Kyung-Mook Kim
 Serbia Goran Perlic
 Slovakia Ratislav Revucky
 China Yan Ming Gao
Bipartite Commission 2  Brazil
 Italy
Guilherme Marcio Da Costa
Giuseppe Vella
Total 15
  • 2 untaken regional places transferred to the ranking list.

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