Competitors 69 from 45 nations Dates 28 Jul 2012 – 2 Aug 2012 | Venue ExCeL London | |
Location ExCeL London, London, United Kingdom | ||
The men's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The event took place from Saturday 28 July to Thursday 2 August 2012 at ExCeL London. The tournament was a single elimination tournament with a third place playoff played between the two losing semi-finalists. In the 2008 event all three medals were won by Chinese athletes with Ma Lin taking gold.
Contents
The draw was conducted on 25 July 2012.
Schedule
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).
Seeds
Seeds were based on the ITTF World Ranking lists published in July 2012 with a maximum of 2 players per country. The top 16 seeded players qualified directly to the third round.
The players seeded from 17 to 32 qualified directly to the second round.
References
Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's singles Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA