Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

Table tennis at the X Paralympic Games
Paralympic Table tennis
Competitors	210 from 31 nations

Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of 28 events, 17 for men and 11 for women.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	6	6	5	17
2	Germany (GER)	4	3	7	14
3	Austria (AUT)	3	3	5	11
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	3	6
5	China (CHN)	3	0	2	5
6	Sweden (SWE)	2	3	1	6
7	United States (USA)	2	1	2	5
8	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	2	5
9	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
10	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	0	1
13	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	3	1	4
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	3	0	3
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	2	3
17	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
18	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	2	2
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	2	2
21	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		28	28	45	101

Participating nations

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open 1–5	Thomas Kreidel  Germany	Dimitri Ghion  Belgium	Nasiru Sule  Nigeria
			Bruno Benedetti  France
Open 6–10	Stanisław Frączyk  Austria	Ladislav Gáspár  Slovakia	Chih Shan Hsu  Chinese Taipei
			Gilles de la Bourdonnaye  France
Singles 1	Hae Gon Lee  South Korea	Matti Launonen  Finland	José Daniel Haylan  Argentina
			Kang Sung-hoon  South Korea
Singles 2	Kyung Mook Kim  South Korea	Vincent Boury  France	Gerhard Scharf  Austria
			Jari Kurkinen  Finland
Singles 3	Zlatko Kesler  Yugoslavia	Neil Robinson  Great Britain	James Rawson  Great Britain
			Fritz Altendorfer  Austria
Singles 4	Bruno Benedetti  France	Michal Stefanu  Czech Republic	Thomas Kreidel  Germany
			Christian Sutter  Austria
Singles 5	Guy Tisserant  France	Kam Shing Kwong  Hong Kong	Chang Shen Chou  Chinese Taipei
			Ernst Bolldén  Sweden
Singles 6	Brian Nielsen  Denmark	Mattias Karlsson  Sweden	Harold Kersten  Netherlands
Singles 7	Tahl Leibovitz  United States	Jochen Wollmert  Germany	Thomas Kurfess  Germany
Singles 8	Magnus Andree  Sweden	Mitchell Seidenfeld  United States	Vladimir Polkanov  Moldova
			Kenichi Suzuki  Japan
Singles 9	Stanisław Frączyk  Austria	Olivier Chateigner  France	Alain Pichon  France
			Ladislav Gáspár  Slovakia
Singles 10	Gilles de la Bourdonnaye  France	Robert Bader  Sweden	Enrique Agudo  Spain
			Kwang Hoon Jung  South Korea
Teams 1–2	Finland (FIN) Matti Launonen Jari Kurkinen	Austria (AUT) Rudolf Hajek Gerhard Scharf	Germany (GER) Dieter Essbach Werner Knaak Udo Pohle Otto Vilsmeier
			South Korea (KOR) Kyung Mook Kim Haun Park Hae Gon Lee Kang Sung-hoon
Teams 3	South Korea (KOR) Young Soo Kim Jong Dae An Ki Hoon Kim	Austria (AUT) Peter Starl Fritz Altendorfer Manfred Dollmann	Great Britain (GBR) James Rawson Neil Robinson
			Germany (GER) Jan Guertler Werner Dorr
Teams 4–5	Sweden (SWE) Ernst Bolldén Patrik Högstedt Jörgen Johansson Jan-Krister Gustavsson	France (FRA) Christophe Pinna Bruno Benedetti Christophe Durand Guy Tisserant	Belgium (BEL) Dimitri Ghion Alain Ledoux Jean-Marc Pletinckx
			Austria (AUT) Christian Sutter Franz Mandl
Teams 6–8	Germany (GER) Thomas Kurfess Jochen Wollmert Thomas Schmitt Werner Maissenbacher	Sweden (SWE) Thomas Larsson Magnus Andree Mikael Vestling	United States (USA) Tahl Leibovitz Mitchell Seidenfeld
Teams 9–10	France (FRA) Alain Pichon Olivier Chateigner Gilles de la Bourdonnaye	Austria (AUT) Stanisław Frączyk Thomas Goeller	Germany (GER) Bernd Mueller Peter Faehnrich Andre Schmandt
			Slovakia (SVK) Ladislav Gáspár Emil Dovalovszki

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open 1–5	Christiane Pape  Germany	Wong Pui Yi  Hong Kong	Susanne Schwendtner  Austria
			Yuet Wah Fung  Hong Kong
Open 6–10	Zhang Xiaoling  China	Ingrid Borre  Belgium	Luo Fuqun  China
			Marie-Claire Odeide-Simian  France
Singles 1–2	Isabelle Lafaye  France	Anne-Marie Gibelin  France	Baerbel Rode  Germany
Singles 3	Ilona Sasváriné Paulik  Hungary	Monica Bartheidel  Germany	Marie-Line Pollet  Belgium
Singles 4	Jennifer Johnson  United States	Christiane Pape  Germany	Gertrudis Laemers  Netherlands
Singles 5	Susanne Schwendtner  Austria	Maria Hoffmann  Mexico	Maria Nardelli  Italy
			Gisela Pohle  Germany
Singles 6–8	Ingrid Borre  Belgium	Martine Thierry  France	Zhang Xiaoling  China
Singles 9	Luo Fuqun  China	Marie-Claire Odeide-Simian  France	Michiyo Nuruki  Japan
Singles 10	Michelle Sévin  France	Jolana Davidková  Czech Republic	Krystyna Jagodzinska  Poland
Teams 3–5	Germany (GER) Monica Bartheidel Monika Sikora Gisela Pohle Christiane Pape	Hong Kong (HKG) Yuet Wah Fung Pui Yi Wong	United States (USA) Terese Terranova Jennifer Johnson Jacqueline di Lorenzo
Teams 6–10	China (CHN) Xiaoling Zhang Fuqun Luo	Czech Republic (CZE) Eva Pestova Jolana Davidková	France (FRA) Martine Thierry Michelle Sévin Marie-Claire Odeide-Simian

See also

• Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

• Table Tennis at the 1996 Summer Paralympics (Atlanta) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)