Table Tennis Olympics 1988. This was a replay of the final of the 1987 world championships. The chinese have been the most dominant players for the last 45 years and throughout olympic competition.
In 2008, the doublesâ competitions were replaced by team events. Table tennis became an olympic sport in 1988, and since then, the men have won 21 of 44 olympic medals awarded—in singles and doubles / team events—while the women have won 26 of 44 medals. Visible ink press early table tennis paddles were normally made of cork, cardboard, or wood, and covered with cloth, leather or sandpaper.
Facts about table tennis in the olympics olympics:
The chinese have been the most dominant players for the last 45 years and throughout olympic competition. Category:1988 summer olympics table tennis. Just eight years after hosting its first world cup in china, table tennis made its way to the 1988 summer olympics in seoul and has since been a fixture in the quadrennial event. Mixed doubles is not held at the olympics, but it has been an event at the world championships since 1927.