Table tennis was included in the first paralympic games in rome in 1960, 28 years before the sport made its olympic debut.
Paralympic table tennis players. Table tennis at the 1992 summer paralympics. Ibrahim hamadtou competing in table tennis during the paralympic games in rio de janeiro, brazil in 2016 (afp/christophe simon) Leading para table tennis athletes reflect on the olympic games.
Para table tennis is a sport that can be played standing or sitting. Melissa tapper of australia and natalia partyka of poland, both known rivals, qualified for both the tokyo 2020. Paralympic table tennis players of serbia (4 p) paralympic table tennis players of singapore (1 p) paralympic table tennis players of slovakia (10 p) paralympic table.
Para table tennis is a parasports which follows the rules set by the international table tennis federation (ittf). Check out the amazing videos about the table tennis event on the paralympic games on this. Last time france, south korea and china led the gold medal's table.
Table tennis players with an intellectual impairment typically have difficulties with: Ittf high performance & development webinar 10 on ittf para table tennis classification is available on youtube. In rio de janeiro there will be singles and team events.
The paralympic table tennis tournament is ostensibly the same as the olympic event. It consisted of 11 medal events, six for men and. The usual table tennis rules.
Paralympicsgb has selected a talented squad of 13 table table tennis players for tokyo 2020 including two defending paralympic champions. Para table tennis is the third largest paralympic sport in terms of athlete numbers and is practiced in more than 100 countries. Players & teams para table tennis is the third largest paralympic sport in terms of athlete.