Ellison has also medaled on the world cup stage with Olympians Khatuna Lorig and Mackenzie Brown. LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Table tennis is lobbying for the inclusion of a mixed doubles or mixed teams event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The International Table Tennis … Empower Team USA athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence and well-being. She played this game well… She gave me a very strong belief to get the win.” Wang Chuqin, “This game panned out just as I said it would before the game. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 172 table tennis players coming from their respective NOCs; each may enter up to six athletes, two male and two female athletes in singles events, up to one men's and one women's team in team events, and up to one pair in mixed doubles. The top 16 athletes in the world will be seeded directly into round 3, athletes ranked 17-23 will start their tournament in round 2. Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, © Copyright 2020 - International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), https://www.youtube.com/user/ittfchannel?sub_confirmation=1, Gold medal success for Xu Xin and Sun Yingsha at “Olympic Simulation Games”. Further success in game six sealed their place on the podium (4-11, 2-11, 11-7, 11-1, 15-13, 11-9). +90 kg.) Four members compete, alternating woman-man-woman-man, with each one completing a super-sprint triathlon consisting of a 300-meter swim, 7-kilometer bike and 1.7K run with the fastest combined time winning. Use of the Website signifies your agreement to the. In 2016, mixed-gender competition existed in badminton (mixed doubles, added in 1996), equestrian (individual and team events in all three disciplines have been mixed since the 1960s), sailing (including the mixed Nacra 17 class added in 2016) and tennis (mixed doubles returned to the program in 2012 after an 88-year absence). At the beginning of the mixed doubles tournament, pairs will be placed into a single-elimination bracket. Athletes, Officials See Everything Coming Together, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee Marks One-Year Countdown To Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 On July 23 And 24, Open Water Swimmer Jordan Wilimovsky Becomes First Man To Qualify For 2020 U.S. Olympic Team, Here's What It Looked Like As The First 2 Athletes Qualified For The 2020 U.S. Olympic Team, Open Water Swimmers Haley Anderson, Ashley Twichell First Of Any Sport To Make 2020 U.S. Olympic Team. This article details the qualifying phase for table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the start of game three, Lin and Sun changed up their approach and looked as though they had found the answer to their problems with back-to-back game wins drawing them level once again. Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, 21 Aug 2020 ©2020 United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. The Mixed Doubles event means that table tennis will have five Olympic gold medals on offer: Men’s singles, Women’s singles, Men’s team, Women’s team and now Mixed Doubles. All involve one man and one woman competing for a combined score. Players/teams can score regardless of whether they are the serving or receiving team. Ashley Carroll and Derek Haldeman won the bronze medal, and in 2019 again advanced to the bronze-medal match at the world championships. The remaining athletes will begin in the preliminary or first round. International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Committee has announced that Mixed Doubles has been added to the Table Tennis Olympic programme for Tokyo 2020. Judo has seven weight categories per gender at the Olympic Games and any nation that qualifies judokas that fit within the categories being used for the mixed team event can compete (i.e. All Rights Reserved. The U.S. won the silver medal at the 2013 world championships. A match that is a four-game sweep can be over in just 20 minutes. Corey Cogdell-Unrein and Casey Wallace along with Kayle Browning and Will Hinton are also among those who’ve medaled for the U.S. at various world cup stops. There was a further encounter to settle on the day as Lin Gaoyuan and Sun Mingyang took to the table against Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng for the bronze medal position. Players/teams switch sides after each game. The ITTF is extremely happy to have Mixed Doubles added to the Olympic Programme.