Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's individual – Class 4

Table tennis
at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue ExCeL Exhibition Centre
Dates 30 August – 3 September
Competitors 20 from 13 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Kim Young-Gun  South Korea
2nd, silver medalist(s) Zhang Yan  China
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Sameh Saleh  Egypt

The Men's individual table tennis – Class 4 tournament at the 2012 Summer Paralympics[1] in London took place from 30 August to 3 September 2012 at ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Classes 1-5 were for athletes with a physical impairment that affects their legs, and who competed in a sitting position. The lower the number, the greater the impact the impairment was on an athlete’s ability to compete.

In the preliminary stage, athletes competed in six groups of three. Winners of each group qualified for the knock-out stages, together with two seeded players given byes for the preliminary stages.

Results

All times are local (BST/UTC+1)

Finals

Quarter-finals: 1 Sep 13:15 Semifinals: 1 Sep 19:00 Gold medal match: 3 Sep 18:45
                     
1  Kim Young Gun (KOR) 11 11 11
 Emeric Martin (FRA) 6 5 2
1  Kim Young Gun (KOR) 11 13 6 11
 Sameh Saleh (EGY) 6 11 11 7
 Sameh Saleh (EGY) 11 11 11
 Guo Xingyuan (CHN) 6 9 8
1  Kim Young Gun (KOR) 14 11 12 11
2  Zhang Yan (CHN) 12 9 14 9
 Maxime Thomas (FRA) 7 11 11 11
 Abdullah Ozturk (TUR) 11 4 6 7
 Maxime Thomas (FRA) 8 12 11 9 Bronze medal match
2  Zhang Yan (CHN) 11 14 6 11
 Choi Il Sang (KOR) 11 11 3 4 11  Sameh Saleh (EGY) 10 11 11 11
2  Zhang Yan (CHN) 7 6 11 11 13  Maxime Thomas (FRA) 12 7 8 8

Preliminary Round

Qualified for the knock-out stages

Group A

AthleteWonLostGames
diff		Points
diff
 Maxime Thomas (FRA) 2 0 +4 +20
 Tomislav Spalj (CRO) 1 1 0 +2
 Werner Burkhardt (GER) 0 2 -4 -22

Group B

AthleteWonLostGames
diff		Points
diff
 Guo Xingyuan (CHN) 2 0 +6 +25
 Dietmar Kober (GER) 1 1 -1 0
 Eziquiel Babes (BRA) 0 2 -5 -25

Group C

AthleteWonLostGames
diff		Points
diff
 Choi Il Sang (KOR) 1 1 0 +2
 Shay Siada (ISR) 1 1 0 0
 Salvatore Caci (ITA) 1 1 0 -2

Group D

AthleteWonLostGames
diff		Points
diff
 Abdullah Ozturk (TUR) 2 0 +5 +22
 Lin Wen-hsin (TPE) 1 1 0 -9
 Andrej Meszároš (SVK) 0 2 -5 -13

Group E

AthleteWonLostGames
diff		Points
diff
 Emeric Martin (FRA) 2 0 +5 +22
 Kim Jung Gil (KOR) 1 1 +1 +8
 Ko Kun-nan (TPE) 0 2 -6 -30

Group F

AthleteWonLostGames
diff		Points
diff
 Sameh Saleh (EGY) 2 0 +3 +17
 Peter Mihalik (SVK) 1 1 0 +2
 Edson Gomez (VEN) 0 2 -3 -19

References

  1. ↑ "Paralympic Table Tennis". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
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