Table Tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

2004 Summer Paralympics

The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28. The twelfth Paralympic Games, an estimated 4,000 athletes took part in the Athens programme, with ages ranging from 11 to 66. Paralympic events had already taken place during the 2004 Summer Olympics as...

was staged at the Galatsi Olympic Hall

Galatsi Olympic Hall

The Galatsi Olympic Hall is an indoor arena in Athens, Greece. It is located in Galatsi and it was the site of table tennis and rhythmic gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The arena was completed in May 2004 and officially opened on July 30, 2004, shortly before the beginning of the Olympics...

 from September 18 to September 27.

Competitors were divided into ten classes according to the extent of their disability, with lower numbered classes corresponding to more severe disabilities. Classes one through five competed in wheelchairs and classes six through ten competed while standing.

Men's events

Singles class 1
Singles class 2
Singles class 3
Singles class 4
Singles class 5
Singles class 6
Singles class 7
Singles class 8
Singles class 9
Singles class 10
Teams class 1–2	Seong Hoon Kang  Gong Yong Kim  Kyung Mook Kim  Hae Gon Lee	Rastislav Revucky  Jan Riapos	Thorsten Gruenkemeyer  Walter Kilger  Holger Nikelis Holger Nikelis Holger Nikelis is a German table tennis player. He won a gold medal in the singles event and a bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He has also won other medals and championships in disabled table tennis....   Otto Vilsmaier
Teams class 3	Young Gun Kim  Heung Sik Yang  Jae Kwan Cho	James Rawson  Neil Robinson  Stefan Trofan	Pascal Verger  Jean Philippe Robin
Teams class 4	Kyoung Sik Choi  Tae Hyung Um  Jun Young Park	Sebastien Pechard  Emeric Martin  Bruno Benedetti	Jie Zhang  Yan Zhang
Teams class 5	Rene Taus  Michal Stefanu  Frantisek Glazar	Eun Chang Jung  Byoung Young Kim	Gregory Rosec  Christophe Durand Christophe Durand Christophe Durand is a French table tennis player.He won his first Paralympic medal, a gold, at the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games. At the 2004 Games, he won a bronze in the individual event, and another in the team event...
Teams class 6–7	Rainer Schmidt  Daniel Arnold  Dieter Meyer  Jochen Wollmert	Adam Jurasz  Miroslaw Kowalski	Simon Itkonen  Linus Loennberg
Teams class 8	Nico Vergeylen  Mathieu Loicq  Marc Ledoux	Alain Pichon  Michel Schaller  Julien Soyer	Richard Csejtey  Miroslav Mitas
Teams class 9	Gerben Last  Tonnie Heijnen	Stanislaw Fraczyk  Rene Gutdeutsch	Chih Shan Hsu  Ming Fu Hu
Teams class 10	Xiaolei Lu  Yang Ge	Francois Serignat  Olivier Chateigner  Gilles de la Bourdonnaye	Magnus Andree  Fredrik Andersson

Women's events

Singles class 1–2
Singles class 3
Singles class 4
Singles class 5
Singles class 6–8
Singles class 9
Singles class 10
Teams class 1–3	Genevieve Clot  Isabelle Lafaye Marziou  Stephanie Mariage	Satoko Fujiwara  Tomoko Fukuzawa	Catherine Mitton  Lynne Riding
Teams class 4–5	Gai Gu  Gui Xiang Ren  Wei Hong Chen	Mei Hui Wei  Shu Chin Hsiao	Khetam Abuawad  Maha Al Bargouti  Fatemah Al Azzam
Teams class 6–10	Lina Lei  Yu Qiang Li  Xiaoling Zhang  Mei Li Liu	Miroslawa Turowska  Natalia Partyka Natalia Partyka Natalia Partyka is a Polish table tennis player. Born without a right hand and forearm, she participates in competitions for able-bodied athletes as well as in competitions for athletes with disabilities....   Krystyna Jagodzinska  Malgorzata Grzelak	Claire Mairie  Audrey le Morvan  Michelle Sevin  Thu Kamkasomphou Thu Kamkasomphou Thu Kamkasomphou, born in 1967 or 1968 in Laos, is a French table tennis player.She represented France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the class 8 event, and won gold by defeating Sweden's Josefin Abrahamsson, three sets to nil.-References:...

Medal table

1		7	3	3	13
2		5	4	2	11
3		4	2	3	9
4		3	6	5	14
5		2	1	3	6
6		2	1	0	3
7		1	2	0	3
		1	2	0	3
9		1	1	0	2
10		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
12		0	2	2	4
13		0	1	2	3
14		0	1	2	3
15		0	1	0	1
16		0	1	0	1
17		0	0	1	1
18		0	0	1	1
19		0	0	1	1
20		0	0	1	1
21		0	0	1	1
22		0	0	1	1