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Colin Judge in action against Panfeng Feng

Paris 2024: Battling Judge loses round of 16 clash

Colin Judge's battling performance wasn't enough as he lost his Para table tennis round of 16 clash 3-0 to world number one Panfeng Feng.

Paralympics • 02 Sep 24

Colin Judge

Having narrowly missed out on Rio 2016, this will be Colin Judge's second Paralympic Games.

Table tennis • 27 Aug 24

Paralympics 2020: No joy for Judge in table tennis

Colin Judge showed plenty of character in his table tennis Class 3 men's singles qualifying event first-round match at the the Tokyo Paralympics, but was unable to overcome world number six Zhao Ping.

Paralympics • 25 Aug 21

Colin Judge

Colin Judge will represent Ireland in table tennis in his first Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Table tennis • 20 Aug 21

Tokyo 2020: Syrian table tennis star, 12, bows out

Hend Zaza's Olympic journey may have been brought to a swift finish but the Syrian table tennis player, the youngest competitor at Tokyo 2020 aged just 12, gave an uplifting message to those following her journey.

Olympics • 24 Jul 21

Rena McCarron Rooney was beaten by the Korean No.1

McCarron Rooney bows out in quarter-finals

Rena McCarron Rooney found world No.1 Seo Su-Yeon too hot to handle as the Donegal woman exited the women's table tennis singles at the quarter-final stage.

Paralympics • 10 Sep 16

McCarron Rooney through to quarter-final

Irish table tennis competitor Rena McCarron Rooney is through to the quarter-finals after defeating Maha Bargouthi of Jordan: 11-3,11-4,11-8.

Paralympics • 09 Sep 16

Long Ma in action against Maharu Yoshimura of Japan

China clears up table tennis golds

China completed their sweep of the table tennis gold medals at the Rio Olympics when their men's team defeated Japan 3-1 in the final.

Paris 2024 • 18 Aug 16

Ronan Rooney

Ronan Rooney: singles, TT1-2 team

Paralympics • 24 Aug 12

Rena McCarron Rooney

Rena McCarron Rooney: singles, TT 1-3 team

Paralympics • 24 Aug 12

Philip Quinlan

Philip Quinlan: singles, TT1-2 team

Paralympics • 24 Aug 12

Eimear Breathnach

Eimear Breathnach: singles, TT 1-3 team

Paralympics • 24 Aug 12

Ma Long, Wang Hao, coach Liu Guoliang and Zhang Jike of China celebrate defeating Korea to win the men's team table tennis gold medal match

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.

Paris 2024 • 08 Aug 12

Yue Guo (L) and Xiaoxia Li (R) pinged and ponged their way to victory

Table Tennis: China beats Japan for gold

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.

Paris 2024 • 07 Aug 12

Zhang Jike has taken gold in men's singles table tennis

Table tennis: Zhang ensures more misery for Wang

Zhang Jike completed the table tennis Grand Slam as Wang Hao endured more Olympics heartache at the London 2012 Games.

Paris 2024 • 02 Aug 12

China's Li Xiaoxia claimed gold, beating favourite Ding Ning

Table tennis: Chinese claim gold and silver

China's Li Xiaoxia clinched the women's individual table tennis gold with a surprise 4-1 victory over compatriot and favourite Ding Ning.

Paris 2024 • 01 Aug 12

Sorry, bro: A dramatic Taiwan's Chuang Chih-Yuan compared beating Adrian Crisan to fratricide

Table tennis: Chuang ruthlessly disposes of Crisan

Taiwan's Chuang Chih-Yuan felt like he had to "kill his brother" after overcoming best friend Adrian Crisan at the London 2012 Olympics.

Paris 2024 • 31 Jul 12

Zhang Jike faces Jiang Tianyi in the quarter-finals

Table tennis: Zhang survives major challenge

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.

Paris 2024 • 31 Jul 12

World number one Zhang Jike enters the singles in London

Revamp gives hope to China's table tennis rivals

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.

Paris 2024 • 06 Jul 12

Guide to table tennis at the Olympics

Find out more about table tennis at the Olympics.

Paris 2024 • 27 Jun 12

Table tennis

Paris 2024: Battling Judge loses round of 16 clash

Colin Judge

Paralympics 2020: No joy for Judge in table tennis

Colin Judge

Tokyo 2020: Syrian table tennis star, 12, bows out

McCarron Rooney bows out in quarter-finals

McCarron Rooney through to quarter-final

China clears up table tennis golds

Ronan Rooney

Rena McCarron Rooney

Philip Quinlan

Eimear Breathnach

Table tennis: China's men complete title sweep

Table Tennis: China beats Japan for gold

Table tennis: Zhang ensures more misery for Wang

Table tennis: Chinese claim gold and silver

Table tennis: Chuang ruthlessly disposes of Crisan

Table tennis: Zhang survives major challenge

Revamp gives hope to China's table tennis rivals

Guide to table tennis at the Olympics

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