Table tennis: China's men complete title sweep
China completed a sweep of all the Olympic table tennis golds on Wednesday when their men stormed to victory over South Korea to clinch the team title on the closing day of the London Games tournament.
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China completed a sweep of all the Olympic table tennis golds on Wednesday when their men stormed to victory over South Korea to clinch the team title on the closing day of the London Games tournament.
China moved one step away from a second successive clean sweep of Olympic table tennis golds when their women marched to a 3-0 victory over a young Japanese team at the London Games.
Zhang Jike completed the table tennis Grand Slam as Wang Hao endured more Olympics heartache at the London 2012 Games.
China's Li Xiaoxia clinched the women's individual table tennis gold with a surprise 4-1 victory over compatriot and favourite Ding Ning.
Taiwan's Chuang Chih-Yuan felt like he had to "kill his brother" after overcoming best friend Adrian Crisan at the London 2012 Olympics.
World number one Zhang Jike dug deep to reach the men's singles quarter-finals at the London 2012 Olympics, but the same could not be said of Timo Boll or Jun Mizutani.
China achieved table tennis perfection at the last Olympics, sweeping both singles podiums and winning the team titles, but a rule change has given at least a glimmer of hope to their rivals in London.
Find out more about table tennis at the Olympics.
| Country | Total | |||
| USA | 46 | 28 | 29 | 103 |
| China | 38 | 28 | 23 | 89 |
| Great Britain | 29 | 17 | 19 | 65 |
| Russia | 25 | 25 | 32 | 82 |
| South Korea | 13 | 8 | 7 | 28 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
