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Olympic history (pre London 2012)

Table Tennis became an Olympic sport in Seoul in 1988. With more than 250 million players worldwide, table tennis has the largest player base of any sport. The Chinese have been the most dominant players for 45 years and throughout Olympic competition. Since 1988, China has won 20 of the 24 gold medals awarded. At their home Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, they made a clean sweep of all four events.

Summary of past Australian Olympic team results

• Australia has been represented at every Olympic Games since the sport began in 1988 but has never won a table tennis medal in Olympic competition.
• In Sydney in 2000 in front of a home crowd, Australia’s Miao Miao and Shirley Zhou combined in the women’s doubles to place fifth out of 34 teams, Australia’s best result in Olympic Games table tennis.

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