List of Olympic venues in table tennis

Peking University Gymnasium hosted the table tennis events for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

For the Summer Olympics, there are eight venues that have or will have hosted table tennis.

Games Venue Other sports hosted at venue for those games Capacity Ref.
1988 Seoul Seoul National University Gymnasium Badminton (demonstration) 5,000 [1]
1992 Barcelona Estació del Nord Sports Hall None 5,500 [2]
1996 Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center Fencing, Handball, Judo, Modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting), Weightlifting, Wrestling 3,900 (fencing)
7,300 (handball)
7,300 (judo)
4,700 (table tennis)
5,000 (weightlifting)
7,300 (wrestling)
[3][4]
2000 Sydney State Sports Centre Taekwondo 5,006 [5]
2004 Athens Galatsi Olympic Hall Gymnastics (rhythmic) Not listed. [6]
2008 Beijing Peking University Gymnasium None 8,000 [7]
2012 London ExCeL Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Wrestling Not listed. [8]
2016 Rio de Janeiro Riocentro – Pavilion 3 None 7,000 [9]

References

  1. 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. p. 192. Accessed 1 December 2010.
  2. 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 263-6. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  3. 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 540-1. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  4. 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 448, 455, 457, 459-60, 462, 466. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  5. 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 382. Accessed 16 December 2010.
  6. 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 340, 399. Accessed 24 December 2010.
  7. "Peking University Gymnasium". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  8. London2012.com profile of ExCeL. Accessed 30 December 2010.
  9. "Riocentro - Pavilion 3", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File (PDF), 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 62–63, retrieved December 2, 2009.
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