This article details the qualifying phase for Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 276 athletes coming from their respective NPCs. 31 (20 male, 11 female) will be selected by the Bipartite Commission. A further 55 male and 50 female quota places were reserved for continental competition.
The remaining 99 male and 41 female players earn places for the Games through the world ranking list prepared by ITTF that concluded on December 31, 2015.
Men
The following achieved the necessary ranking by the final date, and have been invited to the Rio 2016 Games.
Class 1
Section | Places | NOC | Qualified player |
---|---|---|---|
African Qualifier | 1 | - | |
Asian Qualifier | 1 | - | |
American Qualifier | 1 | Brazil | Aloisio Lima |
European Qualifier | 1 | Great Britain | Robert Davies |
Oceania Qualifier | 1 | - | |
ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) |
6(+3)* | Great Britain | Paul Davies |
France | Jean-François Ducay | ||
South Korea | Kiwon Nam | ||
Germany | Holger Nikelis | ||
South Korea | Young Dae Joo | ||
South Korea | Lee Chang-ho | ||
Italy | Andrea Borgato | ||
Argentina | Fernando Emanuel Eberhardt | ||
Hungary | Endre Major | ||
Bipartite Commission | 1 | Hungary | Silvio Keller |
Total | 12 |
- 3 untaken regional places transferred to the ranking list.
Class 2
Section | Places | NOC | Qualified player |
---|---|---|---|
African Qualifier | 1 | - | |
Asian Qualifier | 1 | South Korea | Soo Yong Cha |
American Qualifier | 1 | Brazil | Iranildo Conceicao Espindola |
European Qualifier | 1 | France | Fabien Lamirault |
Oceania Qualifier | 1 | - | |
ITTF World Ranking List (as of December 21, 2015) |
8(+2)* | Poland | Rafal Czuper |
Slovakia | Jan Riapos | ||
France | Stephane Molliens | ||
Ukraine | Oleksandr Yezyk | ||
Czech Republic | Jiri Suchanek | ||
Slovakia | Martin Ludrovsky | ||
South Korea | Kyung-Mook Kim | ||
Serbia | Goran Perlic | ||
Slovakia | Ratislav Revucky | ||
China | Yan Ming Gao | ||
Bipartite Commission | 2 | Brazil Italy |
Guilherme Marcio Da Costa Giuseppe Vella |
Total | 15 |
- 2 untaken regional places transferred to the ranking list.